Designed to meet the needs of GCSE and Standard Grade courses, this pack provides progression from the National Curriculum at Key Stage 3 and takes full account of the revised GCSE criteria for Music. It includes differentiated worksheets and tasks to allow for the wide ability-range found in most classes. There are teaching suggestions for each of the ten projects, photocopiable composing and listening sheets, worksheets and background information sheets, and details of the intended aims and assessment objectives. These are accompanied by two CDs with all the musical excerpts from a wide range of styles and traditions which are needed to carry out the projects.

 

This book is part of a book series called New Music Matters .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 3. KS3 covers school years 7, 8 and 9, and ages 12-14 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks. This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 224 pages in this book. This book was published 1995 by Pearson Education Limited .

This book has the following chapters: Part 1 Year 10/S3: making arrangements; world of scales; build-a-song; the suite; musical architecture; revolutions. Part 2 Year 11/S4: sixes and sevens; ceremonial and occasional music; counter-point-to-point; "looking backwards, looking forwards".