Music Group Performance (Upper Secondary) 2nd Edition

These books (student and teacher editions and CDs for Dictations) provide a much needed resource for students undertaking senior level music and their teachers. Covering similar material and content to the Solo Performance books, these texts have an emphasis on the knowledge and skills required by students undertaking a more ensemble based performance programme

Similar to “Music Solo Performance” with an emphasis on knowledge and skills required by students undertaking a more ensemble based performance programme

CDs for Dictations Group Performance

	Contains all the dictations found in these text books
	For use in the classroom by teachers preparing students for the aural component of their year 11 and 12 music studies
	Also ideal for use by students as a practice / homework / study tool

Book Contents		Click for sample pages CONTENTS

Section One - Rhythm Section 1 contains academic information followed by theory and aural transcription exercises beginning with easy simple and compound time rhythms such as crotchets (quarter notes) and quavers (eighth notes) up to complex rhythms including syncopations and ties etc. (Includes pattern recognition question types)		RHYTHM

Section Two - Scales, Intervals and Melody This section teaches the writing and recognition of diatonic scale forms (Major, harmonic and melodic minors), modes and pentatonic scales. Visual and aural interval recognition exercises are given in the form of abstract (individual) intervals and in context (recognising intervals within a melody). Melodic transcription work begins with simple single line dictations and moves in sequential steps to more complex two, three and four part dictations		SCALES INTERVALS MELODY Click for sample audio: Melodic Dictation

Section Three - Chords and Chord Progressions This section gives students a theoretical and aural understanding of the commonly found chord types (including 7th chords) and teaches students to write and recognise (transcribe) these chords within diatonic chord progressions.		CHORDS CHORD PROGRESSION Click for sample audio: Chord Progression
Section Four - Singing and Section Five - Appendices are designed to support the above main sections

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