This is possibly one of the shortest notes for MEP ever.


I've come to the conclusion that no one can possibly have spent his or her entire life not liking The Sound Of Music at least once!;D For general information, here's a bunch of musicals (our generation would be more familiar with cause they were made into movies) and their composers.

The Sound Of Music - Rodgers and Hammerstein
Phantom Of The Opera - Webber
Chicago - Kander
West Side Story - Bernstein
Wicked - Schwartz

&If you still really have no idea what on earth a musical (song) would be like, please search Youtube.com for things like 'Grease, Summer Nights', 'Chicago - All That Jazz', 'Mack & Mabel - When Movies Were Movies', 'Wicked: Defying Gravity', etc. Though you really should know what musicals are from like, the recent happenings of Susan Boyle (singing 'I Dreamed A Dream' from Les Misérables) in Britain's Got Talent.

- debb

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I can't think of anything to type here, so I'll just go on and post my notes. They're not very comprehensive, although I suspect that's all you need to know.




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The underlined things were highlighted in our general 'Topics To Study For MEP O Level Perception Paper' handout, so I presume it's of more importance.

If I'm not mistaken, they generally won't ask you to distinguish Opera Buffa from Opera Seria from Singspiel. Even if they do, it should be sufficient information to distinguish each from the other. (: If you really can't, then go search things like 'The Magic Flute' by Mozart (Singspiel) on youtube.com, or google. The internet is your best friend!(:

- debb

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Well, my MEP teacher's been nice enough to give us a brief summary of the aspects to cover for the O level MEP perception paper, so I'm posting a transposed, simplified and extended version of it up here since the rest shall be covered in the MEP notes to be posted.

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Symphony - Classical, Romantic, 20th Century
Concerto Grosso - Baroque
Concerto - Baroque to 20th Century
Lieder - Romantic
English Song - 20th Century
Opera - Baroque, Classical
Musical - 20th Century
Keyboard - Baroque to 20th Century
Trios and Quartets - Baroque to 20th Century (including Jazz)

Non-Western Music - Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Kompang, Gamelan, African

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Point to note: Madeline's also sent me a bunch of Literature notes ;D To be posted soon!

- debb.

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Eh, I won't even try punning African music.

- Debb

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:O It's a GAME? it's LAN? It's...

GAMELAN!

Basically, it originates from Indonesia. For questions asking you about the genre, it's 'Gamelan' and for region, 'Bali' or 'Java'. The rest is all there ^^ Listening to recordings is recommended.




Our MEP teacher told us more things today. Except I was kinda s p a c i n g o u t so, oops!

*OHOH. Right. For common characteristics of Gamelan music, you can also add 'Heterophonic' which is basically where the instruments play interlocking melodic motifs (elaborated, varied) and yeah. It also applies to Japanese, Chinese, and Indian music. I remember there was a 4th? but I'm not very sure which culture it was. x_x

- debb

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Kudos to SHERRI again (:

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I'll try to upload MEP and whatever other notes as soon as possible! We've mid-years in 2 weeks, so goodluck to everyone :D DRINK COFFEE OUT OF MUGS, THE WAY IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE.

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An otherwise carefree student at MGS, who is currently studying in secondary 4, and totally not proud to be a MUGGER! :O


I sincerely apologise for the subjects which I do not include (: The list may be found just below. Thanks!

gooodluck!