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Volume 1 available now; Volume 2 planned for September 2006
INCLUDED
CD
The basic ingredients of music - PITCH, RHYTHM , DEVICES, STYLES, STRUCTURE, TIMBRE - fully explored on a CD.
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We have taken music, and boiled it down to its basic ingredients - pitch, rhythm, timbre, musical terms and devices, styles, and structure.
Explore: MUSIC! comes with an audio CD packed with musical examples and spoken explanations. Each element of music is explored in a CLEAR, INFORMATIVE way. Full script of the spoken text included.
Explore: MUSIC! goes on a voyage of discovery. Key questions are answered with the help of lots of short musical extracts and examples.
Explore: MUSIC! covers a wide range of musical types and styles - from Bach to Breakbeat.
Explore: MUSIC! comes with photocopiable WORKSHEETS and QUIZSHEETS. Duplicate them for your pupils- they fill them in whilst the CD plays.
Explore: MUSIC! is ideal for Key Stage 3. Bring music alive, and make sure your pupils are not left behind in their understanding of key facts, ideas and concepts.
Questions answered in VOLUME 1 include:
What does the word “pitch” mean?
How do composers use pitch contrasts to make their music interesting?
What are semitones and tones?
What are intervals?
What is meant by the word “rhythm”?
What is tempo?
What is a time signature?
What rhythms are played on a drum kit?
What is a swing rhythm?
What are dotted rhythms?
What are triplets?
What is a melody?
What is a round or canon?
What is a hook?
What is a riff?
What is an ostinato?
What is a drone?
What does the word dynamics mean?
What is an accompaniment?
What is meant by the word “harmony”?
What do “legato” and staccato” mean?
What is improvisation?
What is a waltz?
What is ragtime?
What is a concerto?
Hello.. Welcome to “Explore:Music”. Music is all around us and whether you’re listening to Bach or Breakbeat.... Music is a wonderful thing. I’m going to go an a musical journey and I hope you will join me..
What is a Fill-in or Drum break?
Every so often, it’s a good idea for a drummer to create a little flourish to the music. Listen to this drum kit music: xxxxxxx . Every four bars, the drummer adds a little variety to the beat....
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VOLUME 2 is planned for September
2006. Questions to be answered
Include:
What does the word “timbre” mean?
What are the main groups
of instruments in an orchestra?
What do the instruments of
the orchestra sound like?
What are single reed and double reed
instruments?
What are the different types of guitar?
What does “pizzicato” mean?
What is vibrato?
What is jazz?
What are the different types of jazz?
What instruments are used in jazz?
What is folk music?
What instruments are used in folk
music?
What is world music?
What is minimalist music?
What is an arrangement?
What do the words “structure” and “form” mean?
What is a loop?
What is a motif?
What is a phrase?
What is a coda?
What is “verse and chorus”?
What is binary and ternary form?
What is a rondo?
What is a 12-bar blues?
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We could say “play the note which vibrates at 440 times per second”, but that would be silly! Instead we use the first 7 letters of the alphabet, A B C D E F and G.................
When you play certain notes together, they sound good. Another way of putting this is that they sound HARMONIOUS. And that’s where the word HARMONY comes from........
An OSTINATO is a repeated pattern of musical notes. To create an ostinato, you play either a simple melody, or bass-line, or even just a rhythm, over and over.......
Explore:MUSIC Volume 1. Worksheets, Quizsheets, and audio CD included.
Price (ex. VAT)
£32.95
This price includes UK postage and packing. Photocopiable within purchasing school.
VAT
£0.70
Total (inc. VAT)
£33.65