Fortissimo! Student's Book

by Roy Bennett

• ISBN13: 9780521569231
• ISBN10: 0521569230
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-08-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Fortissimo! is a key stage 4 music course to fit the new initiatives of the national curriculum with Performing, Composing, Listening and Appraising being an integral part. Structures and concepts are explored whilst offering opportunities to use and develop practical and aural skills. The material covers a wide variety of music from the 13th century to the 1990s and offers the chance to study musical styles and instruments from a variety of cultures. At regular intervals throughout the book, there are double-page colour spreads displaying fascinating visual stimuli material to spark off original ideas for composing and improvising. The Student's Book is accompanied by a Teacher's File and compact discs. The project also links in with an IT composition program called Notate.

Table of Contents

Contents: World Map. 1. Rhythm

2. Shaping melodies

3. Timbre

4. Tempo and dynamics - expressive effects

5. Major, Minor, and pentatonic

6. Music with a drone

7. Chords and chord patterns

8. Graphic notation

9. Ternary form

10 .Using ostinatos

11. Some musical devices

12. Mood and character

13. Texture

14. Rondo form

15. Programme music

16. Timbre - new sound, new colours

17. Words and music

18. Making comparisons

19. Rhythm

20. Chords and clusters

21. Music as background to words

22. Tension and release

23. More musical devices

24. Variations

25. Chromatic, whole-tone and modal

26. Timbre - exploring the voice

27. Making use of physical space

28. Tonal and atonal

29. Chance and choice - aleatory music

30. Mixed media, and the theatre element