The GCSE Performance Pieces series provides exciting contemporary repertoire levelled specifically for GCSE performance examinations accompanied by expert commentary to help your students prepare and achieve their potential with material they really want to play. This book contains pieces for Voice.  Each book in the GCSE Performance Pieces series has been compiled by an experienced instrumental teacher/examiner and overseen by our Series Editor Andrew Coxon who is a senior GCSE examiner and an experienced classroom teacher. The songs have been carefully chosen to provide students with the bestopportunity to show off their instrument and skills with a broad range of artists and styles to choose from. This Voice book features: Material suitable for all exam boards Ten songs with a range of difficulty appropriate for around Grades 3 to 6 A CD accompaniment of professionally recorded backing tracks so that you can hear exactly how each song is meant to sound allowing you to master every song The book includes a range of songs from 1968's Son Of A Preacher Man to two of Adele's biggest hits Someone Like You and Rolling In The Deep. Every song should be immediately familiar but if not you can enjoy discovering and then singing a great new song. With other songs by Bruno Mars Pixie Lott and Ed Sheeran included this book is perfect for nailing a contemporary song that you enjoy listening to and so will enjoy singing. Every song includes a page of information about it detailing the key range and some really useful performance tips. Helpfully a  YouTube playlist has been created containing all the songs in the book along with additional suggested listening such as interesting cover versions or other

Chants sur l'ensemble de notes étrangères - réalisations de l'Auteur-Volume 10 - Chants Sur L'Ensemble Des Notes ?trang?res?is part of the 10 volumes of 380 Basses Et Chants Donn?s by Henri Challan. This series of pieces for Voice should complete all the harmony treatises and should help singers to gain a clear and projective sound. This volume 10c is titled “Author’s realisations” and completes the volumes 10a and 10b on inharmonic tones. It includes the exercises 356 to 380 on the subject and is mainly written in C and F keys. The whole series 380 Basses Et Chants Donn?s features: 1. Accordsde 3 sons 2. Modulations et marches harmoniques 3. Septi?mes de dominante 4. Septi?mes de diff?rentes esp?ces 5. Neuvi?mes de dominante 6. Ensemble des accords – alterations 7. Retards et appogiatures 8. Broderies – notes de passage – pedals 9. Basses sur l’ensemble des notes ?trang?res 10. Chants sur l’ensemble des notes ?trang?res All these volumes feature a minimum of two aspects: a. Textes b. ?l?ments r?alisateurs and for the volumes 9 and 10 c. R?alisations de l’auteur Henri Challan (1910-1977) is a French composer and professor at the Paris Conservatoire.

Septièmes De Dominante - Textes-380 Basses Et Chants Donnés - Volume 3A (Septièmes De Dominante) is part of the 10 volumes of 380 Basses Et Chants Donnés by Henri Challan.This series of pieces for Voice should complete all the harmony treatises and should help singers to gain a clear and projective sound. This volume is written in F and C keys with some accidental alterations. This book is completed by volume 3B. The whole series 380 Basses Et Chants Donnés features: 1. Accords de 3 sons 2. Modulations et marches harmoniques 3. Septièmes dedominante 4. Septièmes de différentes espèces 5. Neuvièmes de dominante 6. Ensemble des accords – alterations 7. Retards et appogiatures 8. Broderies – notes de passage – pedals 9. Basses sur l’ensemble des notes étrangères 10. Chants sur l’ensemble des notes étrangères All these volumes feature a minimum of two aspects: a. Textes b. Éléments réalisateurs and for the volumes 9 and 10 c. Réalisations de l’auteur Henri Challan (1910-1977) is a French composer and professor at the Paris Conservatoire

Inside Improvisation : vol. 6 Learning a language requires listening on many levels to the meanings, the sounds, the intentions, and the inflections or nuances of the language. The first chapters of this volume on learning the language of jazz focus on the prerequisites of chord scales, approach notes to chord tones and target notes, scale motives and sequences, and lines. Part two qualifies improvisational techniques into three areas; melodic, harmonic and sonic (rhythmic devices are the focus of Vol. IV, Melodic Rhythms) and it is designed as a menu of soloing devices from which you can select your personal course of study. Over 100 specific devices are discussed and conceptualized so as to give the improviser more depth of expression and a greater well from which to draw ideas. Among the numerous topics presented are: guide tones, voice leading, chord substitutions, three tonic system for composition, tritonics, hexatonics, tonal expansions, whole tone playing, augmented symmetric scales, double diminished scales, limited range and large range playing, shapes, blues melodies, accents, comping as a soloing device, common tones, articulations, laying back on the... The CD contains twelve standard chord progressions, each played in two different tempos. Renato Chicco - piano Dave Santoro - bass Adam Nussbaum - drums

Music Theory IM1 by Ivan Markovitch is the first of four progressive books for beginners which introduces them to musical formation and theory. This method includes numerous games tunes and nursery rhymes which can keep the beginners entertained and develop their musical ear. With tonality rhythm and note reading this really complete method is perfect to maintain the attention and to develop good musical basics. Ivan Markovitch is a Serbian musician and professor established in France since the 60s. He created many choirs and composed many pieces for voice and instruments.

The Rockschool Popular Music Theory Guidebook (Grades 6 - 8) is a music theory handbook for students taking Rockschool's new Level 3 (Grades 6 - 8) theory exams. Use it along with the accompanying Popular Music Theory Workbooks (Grades 6 to 8) to ensure success in your exams. Rock and pop music is analysed in depth, making this essential reading for students of all rock and pop styles. Rockschool's Popular Music Theory series is also ideal for Music Technology, GCSE and Further Education students.FeaturesAdvanced music notationTime signaturesModes and modal key signaturesAdvanced scalesHow transposition worksExtended chords and voice leadingHow to write for instruments in different styles of musicA guide to improvisationHow to read and analyse a musical scoreAND MUCH MORE!Rockschool's Popular Music Theory Syllabus is fully accredited by all four UK regulators and offers UCAS points at Grades 6, 7 and 8. / Formation Musicale

Volume 1 - Clé de sol et fa-Yves Le Monnier compiles Simultaneous Reading for beginners in a three volume series. The first of these Simultaneous Reading of Treble and Bass Clef is a helpful aid for all instrumentalists. The understanding of reading the treble and bass clefs simultaneously is imperative to the harmonic knowledge of any musician. Simultaneous Reading of Treble and Bass Clef enables students to become confident in reading both clefs develop essential keyboard skills understand octaves recognise ascending and descending harmonies and comprehend all types of intervals among other aspects. For all beginnersto any instrument or voice Yves Le Monnier''s Simultaneous Reading of Treble and Bass Clef enables students to develop and progress in their musical understanding and knowledge.

An All-School Holiday Revue for Young Voices-Here's the ultimate in ?reality? programming! Thanks to the exploits of a brave and curious group of young people you'll get a first-hand look at all the famous characters that make Christmas dreams come true: Santa'swell-trained volunteer reindeer corps the overworked elves snowmen who dream of a tropical vacation what Mrs. Claus really does on Christmas Eve and the true spirit of the season Santa Claus himself! This 40-minute musical isideal for young performers and will be a joy to present with clever dialog John Jacobson's choreography and staging suggestions and the professionally-produced ShowTrax CD.Available: Teacher's Manual Singer's 5-Pak Preview CD and ShowTrax CD. Performance Time: 40 minutes. For Gr. 4-8.

Trevor Webb and Nicholas Drewe. A series of books giving practical projects for use in preparation of the GCSE examinations in music. All the books are grounded on the three major principles of the GCSE syllabuses: listening composing and performing. They may be used either as a complete series or independently. In the early stages the emphasis is on active participation the subject matter is diverse allowing scope for the teacher to introduce a broad range of musical topics. The listening and composing elements gain a greater importance within the series as it progresses although there is always integration between them. Books 1 And 2 contain a variety of projects onrhythm scales tunes chords writing a pop song composing with electronic and conventional instruments and composing with voices amongst many other ideas.

Gesangschule-Spontini's Singing Method (original title: A Compendium of Exercises for the Best Way to Learn Singing and Lessons in Portamento Embellishment and Expression) focuses on dealing with the common problems met by pupils and contains the following: eight exercises for perfect intonation and confident skipping; eight exercises for flexibility; thirteen exercises for voice delivery and expression; three exercises for embellishment and cadence.

Septième de Dominate - Réalisations-380 Basses Et Chants Donn?s - Volume 3B (Septi?mes De Dominante)?is part of the 10 volumes of?380 Basses Et Chants Donn?s?by Henri Challan.This series of pieces for Voice should complete all the harmony treatises and should help singers to gain a correct and clear sound. This volume is written in F and C keys with some accidentals. This book completes the book 3a. The whole series?380 Basses Et Chants Donn?s?features: 1. Accords de 3 sons 2. Modulations et marches harmoniques 3. Septi?mes dedominante 4. Septi?mes de diff?rentes esp?ces 5. Neuvi?mes de dominante 6. Ensemble des accords – alterations 7. Retards et appogiatures 8. Broderies – notes de passage – pedals 9. Basses sur l’ensemble des notes ?trang?res 10. Chants sur l’ensemble des notes ?trang?res All these volumes features minimum two aspects: a. Textes b. ?l?ments r?alisateurs and for the volumes 9 and 10 c. R?alisations de l’auteur Henri Challan (1910-1977) is a French composer and professor at the Paris Conservatoire