Pearson Edexcel A-level Music
Bundle of THIRTEEN revision resources
Detailed Mind Maps
Harmony
Tonality
Rhythm, Metre & Tempo
Instrumentation
Texture
Structure
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Revision notes for A-level Music (Pearson Edexcel)
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RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: 'ON WENLOCK EDGE’
Three Mind Maps:
’1. ON WENLOCK EDGE’
’3. IS MY TEAM PLOUGHING?'
’5. BREDON HILL’
Mind Map connections:
Melody
Harmony & Tonality
Rhythm, Metre & Tempo
Instrumentation
Texture
Structure
Revision notes for A-level Music (Pearson Edexcel)
Three pages
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STRAVINSKY: 'THE RITE OF SPRING’
’INTRODUCTION’
Melody
Rhythm, Metre & Tempo
Harmony & Tonality
Texture
Instrumentation
’THE AUGURS OF SPRING’
Melody
Rhythm, Metre & Tempo
Harmony & Tonality
Texture
Instrumentation
‘RITUAL OF ABDUCTION’
Melody
Rhythm, Metre & Tempo
Texture
Harmony & Tonality
Revision notes for A-level Music (Pearson Edexcel)
One page
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KAIJA SAARIAHO: 'PETALS FOR VIOLINCELLO AND LIVE ELECTRONICS’
Background information
MIND MAP:
Harmony & Tonality
Instrumentation
Melody
Structure
Texture
Rhythm, Metre & Tempo
Revision notes for A-level Music (Pearson Edexcel)
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KATE BUSH: 'HOUNDS OF LOVE’
MIND MAP:
‘Cloudbusting’
‘And dream of sheep’
‘Under ice’
Mind map connections:
Harmony & Tonality
Texture
Rhythm, Metre & Tempo
Structure
Instrumentation
Melody
Revision notes for A-level Music (Pearson Edexcel)
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COURTEY PINE: 'BACK IN THE DAY’
‘Inner state (of mind)’
‘Lady Day and (John Coltrane)’
‘Love and affection’
Mind map connections:
Melody
Harmony and Tonality
Texture
Structure
Instrumentation
Rhythm, Metre & Tempo
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THE BEATLES: 'REVOLVER’
**MIND MAP: **
**'Eleanor Rigby'**
**'Here, there and everywhere'**
** 'I want to tell you'**
** 'Tomorrow never knows'**
Mind map connections:
Melody
Harmony & Tonality
Instrumentation
Texture
Rhythm, Metre & Tempo
Pearson Edxcel A-level Music
Two pages
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JS BACH - 'CANTATA, EIN FESTE BURG, BWV 80: MOVEMENTS 1,2 8’
Mind map: 'Movement 1’
Mind map connections:
Melody
Harmony & Tonality
Instrumentation
Structure
Rhythm, Metre & Tempo
Texture
Mind map: 'Movement 2’
Mind map connections:
Harmony
Instrumentation
Melody
Structure
Rhythm, Metre & Tempo
Texture
Notes on 'Movement 8’
Revision notes for A-level Music (Pearson Edexcel)
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CLARA WIECK-SCHUMANN - 'PIANO TRIO IN G MINOR, OP. 17: MOVEMENT 1
Mind Map connections:
Harmony & Tonality
Rhythm, Metre & Tempo
Texture
Instrumentation
Melody
Structure
Revision notes for A-level Music (Pearson Edexcel)
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Bernard Herrmann - 'Psycho’
Mind Map
'Prelude'
'The City'
'Marion'
'The Murder (Shower Scene)'
'The Toys'
'The Cellar'
'Discovery'
'Finale'
Connections include:
Rhythm, Metre & Tempo
Melody
Harmony & Tonality
Instrumentation
Texture
Revision Notes for A-level Music (Pearson Edexcel)
Two pages
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DEBUSSY - 'LA SOIREE DANS GRENADE’
Background notes
Harmony & Tonality
Rhythm, Metre & Tempo
Instrumentation
DEBUSSY - 'PAGODES’
Background notes
Impressionist features in 'Estampes' (notes)
Harmony & Tonality
Melody
Texture
Instrumentation
Rhythm, Metre & Tempo
Structure
Revision notes for A-level Music (Pearson Edexcel )
Two pages
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ELFMAN - ‘BATMAN RETURNS’
Birth of a Penguin Part I
Birth of a Penguin Part II
Batman vs the Circus
The Rise and Fall from Grace
Mind map connections:
* Melody
* Texture
* Instrumentation
* Rhythm
* Harmony & Tonality
* Metre & Tempo
Revision notes for A-level Music (Pearson Edexcel )
Two pages
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BERLIOZ - 'SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE’
Background notes
Mind Map (‘Introduction’):
Melody
Texture
Instrumentation
Harmony & Tonality
Rhythm, Metre & Tempo
Mind Map (‘Sonata Form’):
Melody
Instrumentation
Harmony & Tonality
Rhythm, Metre & Tempo
Revision notes for A-level Music (Pearson Edexcel)
Three pages
ANOUSHKA SHANKAR
"BURN" Mind Map
Instrumentation
Melody
Rhythm, Metre and Tempo
Harmony and Tonality
Texture
"EASY" Mind Map
Instrumentation
Melody
Rhythm, Metre and Tempo
Harmony and Tonality
Texture
"BREATHING UNDER WATER" Mind Map
Instrumentation
Melody
Rhythm, Metre and Tempo
Harmony and Tonality
Texture
Revision notes for A-level Religious Studies (OCR)
Seven pages
RELIGION + ETHICS
Normative Ethical Theories
NATURAL LAW
Roman Catholic approach
Intrinsic values
Bentham
“Nonsense on stilts”
Cicero
“One eternal law"
ARISTOTLE
‘Eudaimonia’
Afterlife
THOMAS AQUINAS
‘Beatific vision’
Human purpose
Four Tiers of Law:
Eternal Law
Divine Law
Natural Law
HUMAN LAW
Precepts
‘Rule of synderesis’
Five primary precepts
‘Lex’ & ‘ius’
Real good
Apparent good
‘Principle of double effect’
Four conditions required in principle
Strengths & weaknesses
Just War theory
Seven virtues
Deontological secondary precepts
STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES
Objective
Relativism
Rational
Conflicting rules
JOHN FINNIS
Seven basic goods
UTILITARIANISM
JEREMY BENTHAM
Hedonism
“Two sovereign masters”
Pleasure is sole good, pain sole evil
Principle of utility
Hedonic calculus
Fecundity
Purity
Act utilitarianism
Strengths & weaknesses
JOHN STUART MILL
Higher and lower pleasures
Rule utilitarianism
PETER SINGER
Preference utilitarianism
SITUATION ETHICS
WILLIAM TEMPLE
Four types on love in the Bible
EROS
STORGE
PHILIA =
AGAPE
Jesus at Last Supper
More loving outcome
Jesus’ actions
JOSEPH FLETCHER
Bioethics
God’s rules should not always be followed
'Law of love’
‘Himself Might his Quietus Make’
‘Special Bombing Mission No. 13’
‘Christian Cloak and Dagger’
Loving neighbour = loving God
Ten Commandments
Greatest Commandment
RUDOLF BULTMANN
'Love thy neighbour’
Three ways of making moral decisions:
Legalistic ethics
Antinomian ethics
Situation ethics
Six Fundamental Principles
Ruling norm of Christian decision
Only the end justifies the means
Four Working Principles
Pragmatism
Relativism
Positivism
Personalism
Conscience as a verb
RELIGIOUS vs NON-RELIGIOUS
AB William Temple
Pius XII condemned SE as sacrilegious
Jesus’ agape inspired SE
STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES
Subjectivity
Too individualistic
Consistent with the gospel
Disregards divine command theory
Universal appeal
Religious vs secular
Altruism
Truly selfless acts
“Situationism is a method”
Reality
Revision notes for A-level Religious Studies (OCR)
Four pages
ETHICAL LANGUAGE – META-ETHICS
Definition
Do mind-independent moral properties exist?
Moral realism
Moral anti-realism
Cognitivism
True/false statements
Non-cognitivism
Grounding problem
NATURALISM
Cognitivist + realist
Fixed absolutes
F.H. BRADLEY
Concrete absolute reality
Moral perspective
Self-realisation
Observation
Criticism
DAVID HUME
Empiricist challenge
Reason vs emotion
Moral good + evil
Hume’s Law
Moral ‘ought’ statements
Factual ‘is’ statements
Non-cognitive vs cognitive
PHILIPPA FOOT
Virtue ethics
Moral rules
‘Natural goodness’
J.L. MACKIE
Anti-realism
Moral rules
Tradition
Variations between cultures
STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES
Moral nihilism
Verification
Tautologies
Open question argument
Non-moral property
INTUITIONISM
G.E. MOORE
NON-NATURALISM
Intuition
Intrinsic good
Non-natural property
Naturalistic fallacy
Closed vs open questions
H.A. PRICHARD
Moral obligations
Duty
Moral vocabulary
W.D. ROSS
Conflicting duties
Prima facie duties
Overriding obligation
Seven foundational prima facie duties
STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES
Argument from queerness
Cultural relativism
EMOTIVISM
Approval vs disapproval
DAVID HUME
MORAL JUDGEMENTS MOTIVATE ACTION
HUME’S FORK
A.J. AYER
Three kinds of knowledge
ANALYTIC JUDGEMENTS
SYNTHETIC JUDGEMENTS
MORAL JUDGEMENTS
Judgements of value
Utterances of preference
C.L. STEVENSON
Attitude relative to fundamental belief
Persuasion
Approval/disapproval
STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES
Quantify goodness/pleasure
Foot’s moral realism
Moral diversity
Moral nihilism
Changing moral views
Moral progress
Embedding problem
Key issues:
What is meant by ‘good’
Meaningful vs meaningless
Revision notes for A-level Religious Studies (OCR)
Two pages
RELIGION + ETHICS – CONSCIENCE
AQUINAS’ THEOLOGICAL APPROACH
‘Reason making right decisions’
Ratio
Aristotle’s SENSITIVE SOUL
Synderesis
Conscientia
Vincible ignorance
Invincible ignorance
FREUD’S PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH
Human psyche
Unconscious mind
Preconscious mind
Conscious mind
Tripartite personality:
Id
Ego
Superego
Other religious responses:
JOSEPH BUTLER
Innate God-given morality
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN:
Voice of God
AUGUSTINE
Intuitive, less rationalist
Secular responses:
JEAN PIAGET
Mature + immature conscience
Two stages of moral development
Heteronomous morality
Autonomous morality
LAWRENCE KOHLBERG
Authority figures
Social interaction
ERICH FROMM
External authorities
Guilty conscience
Authoritarian conscience
Humanistic conscience
Modern responses:
RICHARD DAWKINS
Evolution
Is conscience real?
Romans 2
‘Lust to be nice’
Product of nurture
Revision notes for A-level Religious Studies (OCR)
Seven pages
APPLIED ETHICS
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Examples of CSR:
Gates Foundation
M&S f
Merck & Co
Amazon
MILTON FRIEDMAN
Friedman Doctrine
'Hypocritical window dressing’
Greenwashing
Coca-Cola’s Giving Pledge
KANTIAN ETHICS
Goodwill
Universalisability
Formula of the End in Itself
UTILITARIANISM
Act Utilitarianism
Bentham
Natural rights “nonsense on stilts”
Rule Utilitarianism
Preference Utilitarianism
Evaluation
GLOBALISATION
Interconnectedness
Issues
Loss, abuse, damage and inequality
KANTIAN ETHICS
Capitalism
UTILITARIANISM
Objective empirical approach
Voluntary diversification
Evaluation
**GOOD ETHICS IS GOOD BUSINESS **
Duty to be honest
FRIEDMAN
Mill’s harm principle
Singer’s strong principle
ADAM SMITH
Self-interest
KARL MARX
Instability in capitalism
Exploiting labour
KANTIAN ETHICS
Self-satisfaction instead
UTILITARIANISM
Pursuit of lower pleasures
Evaluation
EUTHANASIA
Should ‘good death’ be universally permitted?
SANCTITY OF LIFE
Human life made in God’s image
Genesis 1
Catholic DECLARATION ON EUTHANASIA
Natural Law’s preservation of life
Doctrine of double effect
PIUS XII
Secondary effect of medicines
Dignity of the human person
Technological abuse
Criticism of SofL
DANIEL MAGUIRE
PETER SINGER
Value to community also
RONALD DWORKIN
Affirming life
QUALITY OF LIFE
Secular concept
Case studies:
DANIEL JAMES
TONY NICKLINSON
Personhood
GERMAIN GRISEZ
Criticisms of QofL
‘Playing God’
Consent
VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA
GREGORY PENCE
Autonomy
NON-VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA
Persistent vegetative state
PERSONAL AUTONOMY
Self-determination
Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
J.S MILL
Individual is sovereign
'Harm principle’
Criticisms
One’s life is of value to others
Depression
MEDICAL + NON-MEDICAL INTERVENTION
Difference between ‘killing’ + ‘letting die’
Morally equivalent, equal responsibility
Active or passive?
JAMES RACHELS
HELGA KUHSE
Nazi Germany
Conclusion
APPLICATION OF ETHICAL THEORIES TO EUTHANASIA
NATURAL LAW
Doctrine of double effect c
Precept of preservation of life
Value of life
Prevents achieving telos
Secular societies
What is ‘natural’?
Blurred distinction
SITUATION ETHICS
Agape
Personalism
Pragmatism
Positivism
Relativism