What all is everyone studying after summer, or planning to study?
Standard grade, Higher, GCSE, A level, Uni, Teaching?

Just wondered hehe

Thanks PSL

final year at university and applying for post-graduate at music conservatoires.

Starting GCSEs in English Lit and Lang, Maths, Double Science, History, Food Tech, French, Spanish, RE and Music . Plus working on my Grade 7 piano and G6 cello, clarinet and theory (although those 3 won't be taken until at least June.)

I've just finished my A levels so off to College to do a music course before starting a degree.

Starting:
GCSE's
Spanish
English Language
English Lit
ICT
RE
Maths
Double Science
Humanaties
Music Exams
Grade three theory revision before Exam
Grade three piano
maybe an LCM Accompanying exam... depends on what my teacher thinks; might also ask about Practical Musicianship

Starting the Post Grad/MA Distance Learning Course from Reading University - Music Teaching in Professional Practice.

AS levels in Music, Music tech., Maths and Further Maths, providing I get the maths grade. So excited Also probably grade 8 violin and possibly grade 8 theory. Piano... who knows?

Hey we aren't all young whippersnappers at school or University, with a long summer break ahead of us.

(But for the record I'll be studying part-time at Utrecht Conservatoire - Harmony and Counterpoint. - makes me feel 18, even if my real age is nearly three times that!)

I'm not a whippersnapper, either

Starting a part-time MA in teaching while I also start my first full-time job. Scary!

Finishing a distance learning MSc Surveying over the summer, then getting serious about ATCL singing come the autumn.

Starting:
Highers
Music
Geography
English
Biology
History

Music Exams
Working on Grade 8 piano
Hopefully will do Grade 8 clarinet next year

I'm starting my second year of Standard Grades in English, Art, Music, Biology, French, Administration and Geography, Int 2 RE and Higher Maths. FUN!!!

Music Exams - Piano Grade 6 in November and Cornet Grade 7 maybe sometime next year.

I'm going to the RSAMD to do the BEd course. Going to be lots of work but hopefully fun too!

In the mean time I need a job

master of enginreing

Yesterday I couldn't spell engineer, today I is one.

Pushpull BSc CENG MICE (lapsed).

Starting Dalcroze certificate course.

My (young whippersnapper) oboe teacher has gone off home for the summer and wished me a good holiday. I had to point out, I shall be working.

Oooo - where???

I'm starting year 12 to do my A Levels: Music, History, English Lit and Lang. Well I'm hoping to do English Lit. My exam went pretty bad.

BadLY???

I'm going into year 11, carrying on my GCSE's.
I'm also preparing for grade 8 Piano in November, grade 7 flute in November or march, and grade 8 theory in March. Also, i might do grade 3 clarinet in November if i dont do grade 7 flute then.

Jacob.

RNCM

With Scary Karen ???!!!

It'll be great - enjoy!!

The first year is with Bethan.

Ah - she's not as Scary!! Please say hi to Bethan for me.

Btw, two of your fellow Swampets are learning with me at the moment - Lis (onion) and Lyrene!

Starting Alevels in Music, History, German(hopefully) and English Lit.

Also starting oboe, unsure of how much time all this extra work is going to given but i hope to do well

For me it's the 3rd year of a PhD in cardiovascular medicine/cell biology/general biomedical stuff Doing that all over the summer too... Wish I got a long summer holiday

I'm probably either going to uni A to do Music and English or going to uni B to do English Studies.

Going into year 13 to do A levels in maths, further maths, biology and chemistry.

Start learning the clarinet (hopefully)

National Diploma in Performing Arts; Dance Strand.
Finishing my A levels in Music, Dance and Welsh Baccalaureate.
Doing AS and A2 Welsh in one year.

Music > May get around to putting myself in for Grade 7 Flute.

Im going to uni to do drama and english.

I'm also planning to do grade 4 piano, grade 5 clarinet

Hopefully i'll be going to uni to study English and music. Did my flute grade 8 today so not really sure about music exams, maybe start preparing for grade 6 piano?

That's what I meant!

Going in to 6th year: advanced higher english, histroy and biology, and (crash ) higher music and physics. It seemed like a really good idea when I picked my options...

Though after results day may find myself resitting chemistry higher.

Cyrilla, Sbhoa,

Mrs Pushpull is interested in finding out a bit about Kodaly and Dalcroze. Can you point her towards some information please?

I guess there's the possiblity of an exam for me next year C...

I'm off to uni to study music tech and popular music and will be doing a certificate in German with the OU part-time. Lots of fun!

Next year I'm doing Advanced Higher Music, French and German.
And DipABRSM on Piano,
And Grade 8 Clarinet.
Fun stuff, eh?

3 Advanced Highers and 2 Highers?! Good luck!

I think a fair few of us wouldn't consider ourselves "whippersnappers" anymore.

Back to the ole MEng for me too. And placement hunting for the following academic year... oh and my ceramics classes (much cheaper than music lessons, equally relaxing!)

Unproductive gap year
/get into music college and then do something useful like get a job

Mrs Pushpull could look at the two websites - www.britishkodalyacademy.org and www.dalcroze.org.uk. I wrote an article called 'The Kodály Experience' which was published in the AB's 'Libretto' mag in May 2003 - you can find it on this website. I'm always happy to witter on endlessly about my passion (in case people hadn't noticed ) so Mrs P. can always PM or e-mail me for more info.




Oh, DEFINITELY!!!! Get practising those veg!!

I think I've bitten off more than I can chew...(this is on the piano and I have the summer to learn it but am working in the maths dept as a researcher everyday)

Accompanying -
Weber: Grand Duo Concertant
Mozart: Clarinet Quintet
Mozart: Flute Concerto no.1 in G
Mozart: Oboe Concerto
Doppler: Hungarian Fantasie
Poulenc: Flute Sonata (and possibly Oboe sonata too...)
Duteilleux: Sonatine

Soloist -
Mozart: the two famous sonatas (Bb and the one in A), a set of variations
Debussy: Suite Bergamasque

Thank Cyrilla. I'm sure Mrs. P. will be lurking on the site and will read this.

Well if you plan on learning that lot in 6 weeks (or even 6 months), all I can say is I hope that either

a. You have played most of it before, or
b. You learn at a phenomenal speed, or
c. Your audience is easily satisfied and not too critical

Mozart Bb - there are THREE in Bb (K281, K333, K570)
At least the Debussy is not madly difficult.

Good-oh!!

The solo stuff is extra and I could learn or not, thankfully! The orchestral reductions are doable and I've learnt bits of it everything before (so the Mozarts and the Doppler). The Poulenc is now postponed (YAY!!!) but the other one is still on, but that's not technically challenging.

The Weber however...It's hard doesn't quite describe it Not only is it very technical, it also needs a lot of flair, plus a lot of imagination. That's going to be the big one!

It's the Mozart Bb one with the cadenza (the book I have has a lot of wrong K numbers). It's very fast! Thankfully it's not a requirement

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Oh, DEFINITELY!!!! Get practising those veg!!


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Go for it Barry! Is it Elementary or Intermediate?
One day I might do Advanced but sadly Cyrilla doesn't teach it and it probably won't be next year...

PS if you are free any Weds from Sept there appear to be tenor vacancies in the choir Cyrilla, Bagpuss and I sing in...

Hmph... Well, I have pretty much 5 weeks worth of being on holiday so not much exciting music learning for me! (Being on tour with orchestra doesn't count because I have to hand in the music at the end and plus it's not that exciting play with dozens of parts missing!) After that, AS maths, physics, chemistry and French, plus grade 8 piano. Next year is going to be fun fun fun!