QR Challenge: Edexcel GCSE Bach

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.

2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to

• Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
• Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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B. The lesson:

1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.

2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.

3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!

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C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.

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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. What are the dates of the Baroque period?	1600-1750
2. What does the term 'Diatonic' mean?	Notes belonging to the key of the piece
3. What does the term 'Suspension' mean?	prolonging a note to create a dissonance with the next chord
4. What type of dynamics were used in Baroque Music?	Terraced Dynamics
5. When there is one type of mood reflected in a movement, we call this what?	Affection
6. What is a 'concerto grosso?'	A concerto for more than one soloist
7. How many movements are in a Concerto Grosso?	Fast-Slow-Fast
8. What is 'dialoguing'?	Instrumentals literally in dialogue, playing one after the other and swapping ideas
9. What is the 'concertino' in a Concerto Grosso?	A smaller group of soloists
10. What is the 'ripieno' in a Concerto Grosso?	The larger group of instruments
11. What is a ‘basso continuo’?	A continuous bass part usually played by the harpsichord, and cello
12. The 3rd movement of Brandenburg Concerto No.5 is a gigue, but what does this mean?	A dance-like movement in 6/8 or compound time
13. What is a ‘fugue’?	A musical form comprising an exposition, middle section and final section. The music is contrapuntal
14. How would you describe a ‘subject’?	A short main theme of the fugue
15. The whole 3rd movement of Brandenburg Concerto No.5 is contrapuntal in texture, but what does contrapuntal mean?	When two melodies are played ‘against’ each other and interweave
16. What does ‘secondary dominant’ mean?	It refers to a key that is the dominant key of the dominant
17. In Section B of the 3rd movement of Brandenburg Concerto No.5 there is a ‘variant’, but what does this mean?	A phrase whose shape resembles the original
18. In the 3rd movement of Brandenburg Concerto No.5 there is canon during the harpsichordist’s solo role, but what is canon?	Parts copy each other in exact intervals

 

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