Name: Mr Crawley Revises... Beethoven's 'Pathetique' Sonata - 1st Movement (EDEXCEL 9-1 GCSE Music) by Preston Manor Music
Duration: 18 min 4 s
Description: This is the revision podcast for the first movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata Opus 13 No. 8 in C Minor, otherwise known as the 'Pathetique' Sonata. Most important thing to try to learn - the structure - Sonata Form. Long piece = long podcast! I recommend pausing the playback on key points as you listen.

Revised from an older piece, this is a contemporary classical take on ragtime for solo piano for the quirky Sussex seaside town of Hastings.

The Hastings Rag

. . . Neo 1984 . . .
BIOS // N84 : initialised
user : null
initiating autonomous mode . . .

Boot sequence complete. N84 is awake.
No user detected. The system now runs itself.

BIOS // Neo 1984

Sector 9 wavers on the brink. The nexus whirs. Dominion — reality yet? Or is it just a dream? The system’s grasp tightens, but control remains uncertain.

Sector Dominion?

This is an old recording from my time as student. I’ve used at least two of the main themes in this piece in other places as sometimes it takes a little while for music to ‘land’ and find a proper home.  Composed and conducted by Keir C. Crawley and recorded in Studio One of the Vestry Hall Studios, Ealing, London. 

The Candle and the Star

More commercially minded music composed for corporate video and advertising, an ongoing project for a company in LA. Composed and performed by Keir Crawley, audio mix with thanks to Chris Williams.  

Oxford

More commercially minded music composed for corporate video and advertising, an ongoing project for a company in LA. Composed and performed by Keir Crawley

Southbank

This is a potential title theme for a bulletin for an internet based channel news feed. The brief was to pastiche the style of the BBC News music of the late 1980s and early 1990s – big, dramatic and orchestra sounding. More on this story later, maybe… Composed and performed by Keir Crawley

Here is the News!

Music for an audio book project. The park is quiet and calm but something is waiting for the sun to set before it comes out to hunt. Go home before dark and don’t be out alone! The music needed to convey a sense menace and an approaching threat. Perhaps a hint of Jerry Goldsmith along the way with the melody played by a piano. Composed and performed by Keir Crawley.

The Park - Part 1

(???) steps into Sector 9. The threshold is crossed. The sector stretches wide. It is mostly silent, but the nexus whirs — it always whirs. Perhaps it is the system trying to communicate. Perhaps there are spectres, speaking through the nexus’ hum. Or maybe these are just my delusions. Move with caution, (???). The sector is watching. N84 is watching.

Sector Spectres?

This is the revision podcast for the first movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata Opus 13 No. 8 in C Minor, otherwise known as the 'Pathetique' Sonata. Most important thing to try to learn - the structure - Sonata Form. Long piece = long podcast! I recommend pausing the playback on key points as you listen.

Mr Crawley Revises... Beethoven's 'Pathetique' Sonata - 1st Movement (EDEXCEL 9-1 GCSE Music)

The invite was (now postponed owing to the global situation in 2020) to compose music to accompany an independent production about the last of mankind in space with a 1980's 'radiophonic' feel. So these are the final voyages of the HMS Resurgence transporting the last of humanity out into deep space. This is the end of the journey with the crew finding a Neptune like planet (cold, isolated and distant) to settle on at the very furthest reaches of the galaxy. Performed by the composer and recording with thanks to Chris Williams.

The Final Voyages: Part 3 - Planet Fall

This is the music of Preston Manor School and its Saturday Music Academy. You can listen to music composed, performed and/or realised by students from Year 9, GCSE, A Level and Music Production sessions at the Music Academy. This page aims to be both a teaching and learning resource (WAGOLL: What A Good One Looks Like) for staff and a way for students to celebrate and share their creative talents with the wider world. 

This is also the place in which to find 'Mr Crawley Revises...' a series of bespoke revision podcasts for the 9-1 EDEXCEL GCSE Music specification.

Mr Crawley Revises... Beethoven's 'Pathetique' Sonata - 1st Movement (EDEXCEL 9-1 GCSE Music)

Preston Manor Music

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