by Deborah Smith

These books (student and teacher editions) have been written to provide a broad, thorough and sequential music curriculum for Year 7 and 8 students (or any older beginner).

The Student edition is:

Easy to use

Has clear and concise information

Uses sequential development of the skills and knowledge required for a thorough knowledge of the language of music

Includes hundreds of activities suitable for all class types

Very reasonably priced (suitable for student text book lists)

The Teacher edition:

Includes the full student book (with easy to use same page numbering system)

Includes full teacher lesson plans for each written lesson – you never need plan again!

Contains a Teacher Information section prior to each student section with suggestions and approaches to teaching each page of the student book

 
Book Contents  

Section 1 – Lessons
44 written lessons covering musical concepts from beat and pitch through to Major and minor scales

 

Section 2 – Revision Lessons
11 revision lessons – 1 for every four lessons above (suitable for assessment or homework if required)

 
 

Section 3 – Instruments of the Orchestra
4 lessons covering the four major families of instruments

   

Section 4 – Aural
Over 120 aural dictation exercises arranged in a sequential order of level of difficulty

 

Section 5 – Listening
8 guided listening lessons based on excerpts chosen from well known orchestral art music repertoire

 

Section 6 – Assignments
Assignment sheets (1 per term) dealing with creative and research tasks, including suggested extension activities for students with advanced musical knowledge

   

Section 7– Puzzles and Section 8 Glossary are designed to support the above main sections.

   

Additional Material – in Teacher Edition only (permission to photocopy given)
Written and aural tests (1 per semester) suitable for formal assessment purposes if required

   

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