by Deborah Smith

This Teacher's Book and CD has been created to give upper secondary music students much needed practice in undertaking written examinations covering theory and aural concepts.

Contains 14 aural and written practice examinations, ranging from those suitable for students who have completed only one semester of senior music studies through to examinations which are appropriate for students about to undertake their final examination.

Each examination has many types of music theory questions, such as scale, interval and chord writing and recognition.

Contains many types of aural comprehension questions such as melodic and rhythmic dictations (several styles) interval, scale, chord and chord progression recognition.

Covers all question types found in the VCE Music Solo Performance and Group Performance Aural and Written examinations

Contains all student examinations (with permission to photocopy student pages) and full answers (dictations etc).

Has an extensive Teacher Information section with suggestions and approaches to teaching

Accompanying CD contains all dictation tracks.

 
Book Contents  
Section One - Group Performance
This section has seven examinations in total, one for Units 1, 2 and 3 (a Unit is a semester) and four for the final Unit four. Each examination has a wide variety of question types and provides a developmental approach to examination preparation. These examinations have question types such as scale and interval writing, recognition of melodic and rhythmic patterns and melodic and rhythmic transcriptions.
 
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Section One - Solo Performance
This section has seven examinations in total, one for Units 1, 2 and 3 (a Unit is a semester) and four for the final Unit four. Each examination has a wide variety of question types and provides a developmental approach to examination preparation. These examinations have question types such as scale and interval writing, melodic and rhythmic transcriptions, writing of chords and diatonic chord progression recognition.
 
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