Written and compiled by David Bowman and Bruce Cole Sound Matters is an anthology of listening material for GCSE Music. It is intended to provide comprehensive resource materials for the listening component of the GCSE music syllabuses. The extracts have been selected especially to illustrate the periods styles and rudiments of music encompassed within the syllabuses and the four components of the publication produced to ensure maximum assistance to the teacher in the classroom.Available here is a double CD providing the audio tracks covering a selection of music from all genres including: Folk Song Late Renaissance Baroque Viennese ClassicalComposers The Romantic Periods Twentieth Century Jazz Pop and World Music.

The Method adapted for British Schools-In the early 19th Century Zoltan Kodaly developed a way of educating young children through the singing of the native mother tongue folk songs. The differences between our current methods and his are marked and lie within the internal workings. The Kodaly Method uses a sequence for teaching music that is child developmental. This book introduces the Kodaly Method in a simple and easy to follow way and includes everything you need to teach The Kodaly Method yourself.