new edition from 2011-Aural tests are an integral part of all ABRSM Practical graded music exams. The Specimen Aural Tests provide teachers and students with many practice examples of the tests to use as part of a music lesson or when preparing for an exam.This volume covers Grades 7 and includes:practice examples for each test in a range of musical stylesthe examiner rubrics (the exact words that will be used by the examiner to deliver the tests) so that candidates can be fully prepared for what will happen on the daydescriptions of the tests as they appear in the syllabusmodel answers where appropriate as a guide to the sort ofresponses that would be successful in the examThe Specimen Aural Tests volumes are each available in versions with or without CDs.

The new Edexcel AS And A Level Drama Study Guide. A definitive study guide for the new AS/A Level syllabus. Written by experts this comprehensive guide: covers in detail all three components of both the AS and A Level gives details of the lives and methodology of ten key practitioners works through rehearsal processes for both devising and text-work including sample stimuli and texts contains detailed coverage of all set texts with sample questions and answers for the exams covers design as well asperforming routes through the course introduces the terminology and techniques that Edexcel expects students to know. Endorsed by Edexcel

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

Par DUBOIS THEODORE. At just 34 years of age, Theodore Dubois was installed as a professor of harmony at the Paris Conservatoire. Whilst much of his compositional works have disappeared from primary classical repertoire, his teaching has had a lasting influence. Having taught successful composers, including Paul Dukas, it is clear that Dubois'' Treaty of Harmony is well-informed. This music theory study guide covers a considerable range of theoretical aspects, from the varying musical clefs to the use of pedal notes, as well many other harmonic devices with expertise. During the preface, Dubois explains the need for hisbook, stating that it fills the gaps in harmonic theory exercises which preceding guides had missed. With no harmonic elements left out, this Theodore Dubois theory guide is necessary to accompany all music studies./ Autre FM / Pédagogie Musicale

This Teacher's Handbook provides information on how to use Succeeding With The Masters & The Festival Collection together for a thorough and pedagogical approach to learning repertoire.The pieces in Succeeding with the Masters & The Festival Collection are selected for their superior artistic and pedagogical merit.The pieces are expertly leveled so that students can be successful at evey level of their development.The finest pieces from the 20th and 21st centuries appear together.Each book includes a reference guide to all of the pieces and a biography of the composers.Both series are expertly editedbecause they were recorded and edited at the same time.Each book has a corresponding performance demonstration CD to guide students with appropriate interpretation.Succeeding with the Masters has a Practice Strategy Workshop that can be used at home for extra reinforcement!The visual art in each book is another way to teach students artistic and musical concepts.All of the pieces have been extensively researched to ensure authenticity.Together these series create the Complete Library of Pedagogical Repertoire all students need.

The Harmonic Approach. Beginning where the previous book finished, the acclaimed tutor Barry Finnerty has created yet another classic Serious Jazz Book for jazz soloists of all instruments. Barry Finnerty has worked as a recording artist with jazz legends like Miles Davis, The Brecker Brothers and the Crusaders. Taking the musical talents of virtuosi like these as his inspiration, he explains the key to better improvisation through a melodic approach to chord changes, how they interact and how they are used in context. Finnerty describes the possible uses and harmonic functions of a single note, not just to enhance your playing ability, but to show you the possibilities inherent in a different, harmonic approach to looking at particular notes. He also goes into detail on how to achieve melodic command of all the possible extensions and alterations of chords, as well as variations on common chord progressions. The Serious Jazz Book 2 will also help you effectively and practically apply the harmonic knowledge that you learned in the first volume. Not only this, but Finnerty features a great number of melodic examples that use all the chords and progressions previously learned. In this way, Finnerty expands upon and develops his previous edition to create an acclaimed guide to playing Serious Jazz as a solo musician

Being a fascinatingly unique composer Olivier Messiaen pushes the conventions of composition to its very limits. The composer's music remains ever-popular and The Technique of my Musical Language provides the key and necessary knowledge in to the study of his delightful music. Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire at the mere age of 11 where he won many prizes. As a passionate ornithologist as well as organist and composer many of Messiaen's works depict bird song. His music is rhythmically complex and harmonically and melodically distinct often using modes of limitedtransposition. It is for these reasons that the composer compiled The Technique of my Musical Language. The book contains text with musical examples describing unique elements of his music such as ametrical music his rhythmic notations and his modes of limited transposition among many others. For all fans of Messiaen The Technique of my Musical Language is essential to the understanding of the composer's much loved music.

Being a fascinatingly unique composer Olivier Messiaen pushed the conventions of composing to its very limits. The composer's music remains ever-popular and Tecnica De Mi Lenguaje Musical provides the key and necessary knowledge into the study of his delightful music. Please note this edition is in Spanish. Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire at the mere age of 11 where he won many prizes. As a passionate ornithologist as well as organist and composer many of Messiaen's works depict bird song. His music is rhythmically complex and harmonicallyand melodically distinct often using modes of limited transposition. It is for these reasons that the composer compiled Tecnica De Mi Lenguaje Musical. The book contains text with musical examples describing unique elements of his music such as ametrical music his rhythmic notations and his modes of limited transposition among many others. For all fans of Messiaen  Tecnica De Mi Lenguaje Musical is essential to the understanding of the composer''s much loved music.

Each volume in the Année De Formation Musicale series features 25 progressive lessons covering information learned in the first four years of musical training. Featuring lessons on rhythm singing ear training aswell as theory and analysis this Première Année will provide a fantastic introduction to musical training for beginners. These tuition books also include additional lessons that recommend homepractice sight-reading exercises musical extracts to work on as well as instrument recognition and analysis.

Revised Edition 2006 This book should be seen as a method to help the artist to develop his or her own way when trying to improvise chromatically. Through the concepts and examples offered, the improvisor should be able to use this material alongside already familiar tonal ideas. Specifically, the book serves as a guide for organizing chromaticism into a coherent musical statement meant to satisfy both the intellectual and emotional needs of artistic creation. The reader will be introduced to more than one way of conceiving chromatic lines and harmonies. There is nothing theoretically complex or new in the text, it is the organization of the material as well as many musical examples and transcriptions (Bach, Scriabin, Coltrane, Shorter, Hancock, Beirach, Liebman a.o.) which should serve to inspire musicians to expand their usual diatonic vocabulary. This book also provides insight into the style of playing that David Liebman is known for. In addition the book contains 100 assorted solo lines and 100 chord voicings.

Aural Skills For The Improvising Musician (Book And CD)-From Thom Mason comes a fun and interesting guide to help you develop aural skills and refine your musical ear! This book focuses on improving your technique in hearing pitches rhythms melodies and chord progressions as directly to applied to actual music in the jazz repertoire. The text will help you to hear music in your head from the written page transcribe and sight sing all the while making it musical through appropriate jazz phrasing and articulations. The valuable lessons learned can be applied to any instrument or voice with skills that transcend jazz useful in all styles of music.

Originally published in the 1940s Paul Hindemith's remakable textbooks are still the outstanding works of their kind. In contrast to many musical textbooks written by academic musicians these were produced by a man who could play every instrument of the orchestra could compose a satisfying piece for almost every kind of ensemble and who was one of the most stimulating teachers of his day. It is therefore not surprising that nearly forty years later these books should remain essential reading for the student and the professional musician.