Practice Tests for the London AS and A2 Music Listening Papers based on The Essential Hyperion 2-Listening Matters offers more than 70 sets of questions on musical perception. These have been designed by two former chief examiners in music for London Examination to help students prepare for the London Qualifications in AS and A-level music. Based on the 51recordings of the Essential Hyperion 2 (two CDs HYP 20) these questions are prefaced with hints and are graded in difficulty and supplied with model answers. This book can be used for aural practice in the classroom for support work at home or for revision prior to the exam. It has been designed Specifically for the revised London (Edexel) music specification first examined in 2001/02 and reflects the styles andtypes of question that feature in those examinations. Listening Matters builds upon the reputation of the prize-winning Aural Matters and its companion volume Aural Matters in Practice both written by David Bowmann and Paul Terry.

Following on from the success of Book 1 Book 2 provides additional listening tests for use in KS3 music. Built around the National Curriculum and covering a wide variety of genres this book of tests will complement your classroom teaching and help prepare students planning to study GCSE Music. The book is organised into five sections and contain numerous tests in: Western classical music Jazz and Blues Music for stage and screen World music Popular music The tests which are photocopiable increase in difficulty throughout the book to enable teachers to choose the tests suitable for theirstudents whether they are in years 7 8 or 9. And to save teachers time in searching for the relevant pieces of music these books also include an audio CD featuring all of the tracks needed for the tests.

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

Built around the National Curriculum and covering a wide variety of genres this book of tests will complement your classroom teaching and help prepare students planning to study GCSE Music. The book is organised into five sections and contain numerous tests in: Western classical music Jazz and Blues Music for stage and screen World music Popular music The tests which are photocopiable increase in difficulty throughout the book to enable teachers to choose the tests suitable for their students whether they are in years 7 8 or 9. And to save teachers time in searching for the relevantpieces of music these books also include an audio CD featuring all of the tracks needed for the tests.

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

Par HARRIS PAUL / LENEHAN J.. 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 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 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./ Autre FM / Test d'Ecoute

Par HARRIS PAUL / LENEHAN JOHN. 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 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 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. / Niveau : 3 / Répertoire / Tout Instrument

Par HARRIS PAUL. 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 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./ Autre FM / Test d'Ecoute

Book 2 in this series continues helping students learn their theory in the most beneficial way - by combining it with ear training at the same time which promotes well-rounded musicianship.In this book students learn more notes on the staff as well as intervals half and whole steps major and minor five-finger patterns key signatures and more. There is an entire unit on music analysis as well as a final test. It is here that students synthesize everything they have learned throughout the book.As in Book 1 every unit includes a multitude of activities such as: writing playing and listening; 'Count and Hear Your Theory'; 'Write and Play Your Theory';Lesson Day activity; and a CD to reinforce every unit which can be used at home or at the lesson.

Opening Up The Jazz Ensemble. Par COLLIER GRAHAM. This book/CD set addresses the development of improvisation in all its forms, individual and collective, textural and structural, and is designed to open up the minds of all the players in any jazz situation. The workshops are designed to help all levels of improviser. They will help the raw beginner start the process of learning to improvise, not necessarily in an exposed soloing situation, but will also help the technically fluent improviser who often needs to be taught to listen more and consider the overall picture rather than just his or her own contribution. Interaction also deals in a practical way with the connections between the present and the past, showing how the concepts of earlier styles can be adapted to our own music to create something valid for our own situation. / Méthode / Méthode / Big Band