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

Exam boards: Edexcel AQA OCR WJECLThis workbook has been specifically written to improve theory comprehension among students requiring a basic knowledge of the subject.Starting with the fundamentals of pitch and rhythm this workbook steadily progresses to a range of applications including key signatures scales chords and modulation.There are a number of tasks in each chapter including practical aural and written exercises based on rock pop jazz and classical music. Many of the exercises can also be explored using music technology software.This workbook is aimed at students wanting a firm grounding in music theory to GCSE level and alsocandidates preparing for early grade exams in music theory.Rebecca Berkley is a freelance writer and musician and is a music education consultant. She has taught percussion to students of all ages both as a private teacher and as a workshop leader and published percussion music. She is also a choral conductor running several choirs and directing music festivals with her husband. After starting her career as a music teacher in secondary schools she became a lecturer in music education at the University of Southampton and the Institute of Education University of London. Her PhD thesis focused on how GCSE students learn to compose and how best to teach them. She is the co-author of Rhinegold???s Edexcel GCSE Music Listening Tests (Book 3) and contributes as a freelance writer to Classroom Music Magazine.

WJEC/Eduqas GCSE Music Exam Pack. This Rhinegold Education exam pack contains essential examination material for your WJEC/Eduqas GCSE Music course, including analyses, notation and listening tests on the new Prepared Extracts, for first examination in 2022. It includes one copy each of the Revision Guide, Listening Tests, and Prepared Extract Study Supplement.

The GCSE Composition Course comprises a Teachers Book and four themed 'Project Books' providing everything needed to manage a successful GCSE Composition programme across the examination boards. The Teachers Book contains: An outline of the content of each project book. Introductions and checklist reminders for each project. Back-up guides to supervising and completing the projects. A selection of 'Kick-Start' ideas - short quick exercises to get composing activities up and running. Integrating listening performing and improvising activities. Notes on ancillary activities: evaluation working to a brief and keeping a log. Teaching-pointguidance and suggestions for classroom and project management.

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. Books 3 And 4 offer 22 different listening exercises which are based on the works of a wide range of composers including Bach Handel Elgar Britten Joplin McCartney and Lloyd Webber. Each piece is presented in the form of a skeleton score and questions are set to develop the pupil’s aural perception and musical literacy. The music cassette which accompanies these two books includes recordings of many of the works.

A definitive study guide for the 9?1 GCSE syllabus. This comprehensive guide: Supports all components of the GCSE: Performing Composing and Appraising. Covers the full list of Set Works and suggested Wider Listening. Provides tests and practice exam questions. Includes advice and tips on how to do well in the written paper. Endorsed for Edexcel.

This revision guide presents the key information you need to know for the written exam (Appraising) part of the WJEC and WJEC/Eduqas GCSE Music syllabuses. It includes: Notes on the prepared extracts for both syllabuses Guidance on all questions in the appraising exam including those on prepared extracts and those on unprepared extracts Practice questions with answers included Notes on the music history you will need to know and the musical forms and devices that you will need to understand An introduction to music theory Tips on how to revise

Written by experienced teachers these tests will help to prepare you fully for the Understanding Music component of your GCSE course. This book contains: Banks of practice questions for Section A: Listening ? Unfamiliar music covering each Area of Study Practice questions for Section B: Study pieces Guidance on how to tackle the exam Answers to all the questions so that you can check your work A glossary of technical terms Downloadable audio for all the tests

Whatever your previous experience of composing or none this book will guide you through the process of creating musical ideas and developing them into a complete composition suitable for submission as part of your GCSE Music course. The first section introduces you to the ingredients of composing - techniques that you can apply to any style of music - including rhythm word setting pitch melody phrase structure harmony texture and instrumentation. The second section offers eight composing projects based on music of different styles and forms including verse-chorus song theme and variations minimalism musique concrete and film music. Each of thesewill guide you through the process of writing a piece of music from beginning to end.

Exam boards: Edexcel AQA OCR WJEC The AS Music Literacy Workbook will develop students??? notational skills to the level necessary to succeed in the exam.This workbook explains the notation of a wide variety of instrumental techniques and includes a whole chapter devoted to score reading.Students will be able to read and understand any classical jazz pop or guitar scores they might come across during their AS studies and beyond.The workbook emphasises learning by doing. It includes numerous scorereading exercises based on jazz and classical music which encourage students to cross-reference their knowledge. The workbook builds towards aseries of exercises and model answers allowing students to check their work.This workbook is tailor made for anyone wanting to develop a grounding in music theory to AS level but is also a refreshing new resource for candidates preparing for higher grade exams in music theory BTEC National and Scottish Higher Grade Music.Rebecca Berkley is a freelance writer and musician and is a music education consultant. She has taught percussion to students of all ages both as a private teacher and as a workshop leader and published percussion music. She is also a choral conductor running several choirs and directing music festivals with her husband. After starting her career as a music teacher in secondary schools she became a lecturer in music education at the University of Southampton and the Institute of Education University of London. Her PhD thesis focused on how GCSE students learn to compose and how best to teach them. She is the co-author of Rhinegold???s Edexcel GCSE Music Listening Tests (Book 3) and contributes as a freelance writer to Classroom Music Magazine.

Songpack is one of the most successful resources for classroom music-making on the market. The song-based package actively encourages participation and offers ideas on performing listening and inventing thus fulfillingrequirements of the Programmes Of Study and GCSE syllabus. Forty songs ranging from pop and folksongs to film and show tunes. Titles include Sailing When I’m Sixty Four Morning Has Broken Rivers Of Babylon and many more.Each song is prefaced by teacher’s notes giving helpful hints on rehearsal and performance project work and listening activities. In addition to the songs and keyboard accompaniment there are easy parts for recorder and tunedpercussion plus melody parts in Bb. The pupil’s book gives the melody line optional counter-melody plus guitar chords.

The Rockschool Popular Music Theory Guidebook (Grades Debut - Grade 5) is an introduction to music theory for students taking Rockschool's new theory exams. Use it along with the accompanying Popular Music Theory Workbooks (Debut to Grade 5) 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.FeaturesHow music is constructed and written on the staveThe most common scales in rock and popRhythm notation and time signaturesDirections, dynamics and articulationsHarmony theory and common chord progressionsSpecialist notation and techniques for all rock band instrumentsThe role of the instruments in different styles of musicHow 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

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.

Exam boards: Edexcel AQA OCRThe AS Music Composition Workbook will help students gain the necessary skills and confidence to write a successful composition for AS music.It assumes a GCSE level understanding of composition and offers a series of exercises focusing on developing musical ideas textures word-setting harmonisation and orchestration. There is also detailed advice on how to write effectively for a variety of instruments and how to plan a composition.Alan Charlton is a freelance composer. He was awarded the first ever PhD in Composition from Bristol University in 1997 and was the first Eileen NorrisFellow in Composition at Bedford School (1999 2002). He was head of music technology at Bedford School from 2000 2009 and is also an examiner for Edexcel.