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

Music literacy is essential for enhancing your skills. It empowers you to appreciate the richness of music and to communicate it with confidence. ABRSM's Music Theory In Practice workbooks have helped more than one million musicians worldwide to learn about the theory of music.The new Music Theory In Practice Model Answers series is a practical tool to use alongside the fully-revised workbooks for Music Theory In Practice Grades 1 to 5 providing specimen answers to each exercise covered. Each book includes:Correct answers to every question.Accepted options where there can be more that one answer.Model answers for composition-stylequestions.This answer book will help you to prepare in the best way possible for the ABRSM Grade 5 Theory Of Music exam.

Music literacy is essential for enhancing your skills. It empowers you to appreciate the richness of music and to communicate it with confidence. ABRSM's Music Theory In Practice workbooks have helped more than one million musicians worldwide to learn about the theory of music.The new Music Theory In Practice Model Answers series is a practical tool to use alongside the fully-revised workbooks for Music Theory In Practice Grades 1 to 5 providing specimen answers to each exercise covered. Each book includes:Correct answers to every question.Accepted options where there can be more that one answer.Model answers for composition-stylequestions.This answer book will help you to prepare in the best way possible for the ABRSM Grade 1 Theory Of Music exam.

Il Dettato Musicale features a number of ear training exercises to help musicians recognise harmonic and melodic intervals identify rhythmic and melodic errors as well as to reconstruct a melody by putting the beats indicated in the correct order all helping to encourage full development of a pupil's musical ability. Volume 1 aims to gradually strengthen the ability to memorise a piece of music through the recognition of melodic harmonic and rhythmic elements. The accompanying CD includes demonstrations of all the exercises.

You your child and music-This self-help guide is essential reading for any parent or carer wishing to know more about bringing music into the life of their child. 20 short chapters which assume no musical knowledge are packed with expert advice on how to support your child through every stage of musical development from birth through to early adulthood.Helpful advice is included on:music-making with the very youngrecognizing and encouraging musicalitychoosing the right instrumentgetting the most out of music lessonsencouraging practicepublic performancemusic examsWhatever stage of learnign your child has reached Raising An AmazingMusician will empower you to make the right decisions for your young musician and enrich their experience of music as an enjoyable life-enhancing activity.

Tools and Techniques for Writing Better Lyrics-Tools and Techniques for Writing Better Lyrics. Veteran songwriter Pat Pattison has taught many of Berklee College of Music's best and brightest students how to write truly great lyrics. Her helpful guide contains essentialinformation on lyric structures timing and placement and exercises to help everyone from beginners to seasoned songwriters say things more effectively and gain a better understanding of their craft. Features examples of famoussongs for study including: Be Still My Beating Heart · Can't Fight This Feeling · It Was a Very Good Year · Tickle Me · and more.

The Edexcel: A2 Revision Guide - 3rd Edition is designed to prepare you fully for Section B of your final A2 Music exam. Written in a clear and concise manner by an experienced examiner and teacher, it includes:An introduction to the exam that explains what you'll be expected to know.A succinct revision section that presents all the key facts for each set work, broken down into individual segments on the elements of music.Sample essay questions, mark schemes and answers.Helpful hints on how to improve your own written answers in the exam.A comprehensive glossary.This guide will help you to understand how the exam works, how questions are worded and what your examiners are looking for. It will give you the edge you need to achieve a better grade.This revision guide is suitable for exams from 2015-2017. / Formation Musicale

Performing Together-The Music Express Series provides a range of activities and ideas to aid the teaching of music helping to make it fun and factual! This unit Performing Together is the second of six in the Year 7 series and builds on the skills and experience developed in previous years. There are plenty of helpful suggestions and ideas for classroom activities homework and extensions of the course to suit individual timetables. Superbly planned user-friendly and inclusive this is a terrific method guide and resource for teachers. with diagrams symbols and graphics designed to be as easy and accessible as possible even for those with little music teachingexperience. This is a lively unit in which the whole class works together to prepare and perform a two-part song. Pupils learn to sing the song play the instrumental parts from notation or by ear and plan rehearse and perform as an ensemble. The activities encourage confidence imagination and interaction whilst also fully supporting the Music Curriculum. With a Book for all lessons and a CD and CD-Rom jammed packed to the brim with resources materials and inspiration this informative and enjoyable method will change the way you teach Music!

Par CARRE SOPHIE. In Prends Ton Tempo , Sophie Carre has included all of the concepts that need to be acquired during the first years of music studies. Concepts such as reading intervals, sol and fa keys and reading different rhythms. These theoretical concepts are helpfully contextualised by a number of original songs and rhymes as well as by short musical segments. All of the essential concepts of learning to play music are featured in Prends Ton Tempo , such as the different notes, intervals and even basic arpeggios. Sophie Carre 's skill in writing such an effective beginner's book means she intersperses the lessons with real music, enabling you to develop your musicality as well as your theoretical knowledge./ Solfège/Formation Musicale / Formation Musicale

DescriptionLearn to read, understand, and create music. This book will help musicians of all levels communicate more effectively, learn new music faster, and memorize repertoire more easily. This approach has been developed and refined at Berklee College of Music since the 1950s and has been used by many thousands of musicians worldwide – currently as a textbook in Berklee's Aspire: Five-Week Music Performance Intensive program.Included here are the essential concepts and terminology of music, with hands-on exercises and many listening recommendations so that you can hear how these principles are used in real music – to help you “see what you hear, and hear what you see.” Online audio tracks illustrate every concept. Whether you are interested in rock, country, jazz, hip-hop, or any other contemporary musical style, this book will help you become a more capable, more expressive musician. / Tous instruments / Berklee

Complete Singing Scheme For Primary Class Teachers - Site Licence Edition-Singing Express is a complete scheme for singing in the primary years. It supplies everything that children and teacher need for singing together - brilliant cross-curricular singing materials which naturally and easily help grow confident voices and full guidance and help with using them.This book and DVD-ROM pack provides songs chants rhymes stories and warm ups. Easy to access easy to learn and share with children. The materials are designed for whiteboard display and include backing tracks lyrics song movies and specialist singing help whenever needed.Also included is an audio CD with performances of all the chants rhymes andsongs.

George Self. This book recognises that aural work is essential to help pupils derive the full benefits from class music. The 17 lessons are designed to be used with students of varied ability. Most questions are based on the comparative method; for example a short melodic shape is played pupils identify this from three or four shapes printed in their own books. Gradually structural elements are introduced and the book draws its examples from different musical periods and cultures.George Self. This book recognises that aural work is essential to help pupils derive the full benefits from class music. The 17 lessons are designed to be used with students of varied ability. Most questions are based on the comparative method; for example a short melodic shape is played pupils identify this from three or four shapes printed in their own books. Gradually structural elements are introduced and the book draws its examples from different musical periods and cultures.

Par HARRIS PAUL. The very thought of aural, especially in examinations, strikes fear into the heart of many young pianists and instrumentalists. But aural should not be an occasional optional extra, it?s something to be developing all the time, because having a good ear will help you to improve as a musician more than any other single musical skill. Improve your Aural! Is designed to take the fear out of aural. Through fun listening activities, boxes to fill in and practice exercises, this workbook focuses on all the elements of the aural test. And because all aspects of musical training are of course connected, a range of interconnected activities are included to help develop the ear including singing, clapping, playing your instrument, writing music down, improvising and composing. This new edition of this popular series supports new ABRSM syllabus requirements from 2010, ensuring success in the aural test of graded exams. All the answers for Improve Your Aural! Grade 3 are provided on the last page of the physical book. / Methods and Tutors / Solfège/Formation Musicale / Ecoute

Par PILKINGTON BOB. Add dimension and interest to your music. This essential, core material is for anyone who arranges jazz standards or writes original jazz compositions. This book will help you craft melodies, countermelodies, bass lines, and grooves. It will help you manage the intricacies of interactive lines, control dissonance, and improve melodic development. Carefully guided exercises let you practice exploring and controlling contrapuntal relationships. The accompanying recordings demonstrate techniques in typical jazz arrangements. Audio tracks feature a live jazz ensemble of veteran Berklee faculty members, illustrating the counterpoint examples so that you can hear them applied in a realistic musical context./ Théorie / Tout Instrument

The very thought of aural especially in examinations strikes fear into the heart of many young pianists and instrumentalists. But aural should not be an occasional optional extra itâ??s something to be developing all the time because having a good ear will help you to improve as a musician more than any other single musical skill.Improve your Aural! Is designed to take the fear out of aural. Through fun listening activities boxes to fill in and practice exercises this workbook with CD focuses on all the elements of the aural test. And because all aspects of musical training are of course connected a range of interconnected activities are includedto help develop the ear including singing clapping playing your instrument writing music down improvising and composing.This new edition of this popular series supports new ABRSM syllabus requirements from 2010 ensuring success in the aural test of graded exams.