Music Solo 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.

	Contains theoretical, analytical and academic explanations of the many concepts dealt with at a Senior music level
	Shows how these concepts work in music (useful for analysis)
	Contains hundreds of aural transcription and theory exercises given in sequential order of level of difficulty
	Although written to suit the Victorian VCE system, these texts are being used to improve the aural skills of Year 11 and 12 students throughout Australia

CDs for Dictations Solo Performance contain all the dictation material found in “Music Solo Performance” Student and Teacher books (2nd Edition)

	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 “Rhythm” 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 very complex rhythms including syncopations, ties, mixed metre etc.		RHYTHM

Section Two - Scales, Intervals and Melody “Scales, Intervals and Melody” deals with diatonic, pentatonic, modal, whole tone, chromatic and other scale forms. Visual and aural analysis exercises are given for recognising the tonality of melodies. Writing intervals and interval recognition exercises teach skills required for melodic transcriptions. 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 “Chords and Chord Progressions” 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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