Performing and Responding
John Howard(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 31. August 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
63 pages
978-0-521-42229-1 (ISBN)
Description
The Cambridge Assignments in Music series features a variety of books, audio cassettes and CDs including History of Music, Popular Music, Performing and Responding and Popular Music. The 12 projects in this latest addition to the Cambridge Assignments in Music series approach listening and musical appreciation in a new way, through pieces specially composed by John Howard for classroom performance. Within each project students follow five stages: learn, rehearse and perform a piece designed for classroom use; discuss features of that piece; explore structural features and composing devices which connect the piece with a 'master work', a piece by a well-known composer; use supporting information about the 'master work'; respond with work of their own in the form of composing, improvising, further listening and discussion.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Interest Age: From 14 to 16 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
8 Maps; 8 Halftones, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 301 mm
Width: 220 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
245 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-42229-1 (9780521422291)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
1. Introduction; 2. The projects: Major/Minor (based on Symphony No. 5 in C minor by Beethoven); Palindromes (based on the first two sections of the Rondo Ma fin est mon commencement by Machaut); Invention (based on Two-part Invention No. 8 in F by J. S. Bach); Vowel Sounds (based on O King, the second movement of Sinfonia by Luciano Berio); Hymn and a River (based on The Housatonic at Stockbridge, No. 3 of Three Places in New England by Charles Ives); Fixed Ideas (based on Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum by Harrison Birtwistle); New/Old (based on Bonnie James Campbell, from Scotch Minstrels by Judith Weir); Loops and Shakes (based on Shaking and Trembling, the first movement of Shaker Loops by John Adams); Moonlight and a River (based on Moonlight on a Spring River - Chinese traditional); Dance (based on the Kecak dance from Bali); Laudate (based on Laudate Dominum for tenor and continuo by Monteverdi); Tune and accompaniment (based on the first section of Prelude No. 15 by Chopin). 3. A performing resource bank. 4. A listening list and listening resource bank.