KS3/4/5: Bach's Christmas Oratorio & Christmas No.1s Edexcel AS After eight years of the

After eight years of the old specification

To develop the students’ practical understanding of:

essence machines

should already have introduced them to creating and manipulating musical ideas

KS3/4/5: Bach's Christmas Oratorio & Christmas No.1s Edexcel AS After eight years of theThis article will take a look at two contrasting examples of Christmas music 250 years apart. In the first section, primarily aimed at KS5 students, we will explore Bachs Christmas Oratorio, in particular how he and his librettist combined Biblical passages, Lutheran chorales and newly written text to create a varied but highly unified dramatic and musical structure. An associated extension activity will focus on arranging and elaborating chorales for