Music Companion
Price: £49.99 (Excluding VAT at 17.5%)
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Subject: Music
Level: Secondary
Age Group: 14 - 16
Order Number: 11081
This handy Music Companion explains many aspects of music theory, and presents a number of important compositions by influential composers.
The companion looks at language and notation, and gives a list and definition of commonly used performance directions and an explanation of ornaments. It explains time and key signature; scales, chords and cadences; modulation and transposition; and texture.
The companion considers musical forms, and illustrates them with MIDI examples, including:
- Canon - Pachabel's Canon
- Fugue - Bach's Fugue in C Minor
- Theme and Variations -Theme and 12 variations by Mozart
- Binary Form - Bach's French Suite in C minor
- Ternary Form - Bercuese by Kabalevski
- Minuet and Trio - The third movement from Mozart's Symphony number 40
- Sonata Form - Sonatina in F by Clementi
- Rondo - Beethoven's Rondo in F
- Sonata Rondo - The third movement from Haydn's Trumpet Concerto
A wide range of important genre are considered, including the suite, sonata, symphony, concerto, opera, oratorio and overture.
Instrumental families are outlined, and each instrument's range and method of note production are given. The companion considers ensembles too, looking at the composition of brass bands, military bands, string quartets and orchestras.
It considers many commonly used compositional devices such as: sequence, imitation and ostinato; inversion and retrograde; and descant and melisma.
The entries have been indexed and cross referenced by hyperlink for ease of study.
Borne out of the IGCSE Music syllabus, this as an invaluable companion for anyone studying music at school from the age of 14 upwards.
