Fortissimo! Student's book
- Author: Bennett, Roy C.
Fortissimo! Student's book
- Author: Bennett, Roy C.
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About
Fortissimo! is a key stage 4 music course to fit the initiatives of the national curriculum with performing, composing, listening and appraising being an integral part. The material in the Fortissimo! Student's Book covers a wide variety of music from the 13th century to the 1990s and offers the chance to study musical styles and instruments from a variety of cultures. At regular intervals throughout the book, there are double-page colour spreads displaying fascinating visual stimulus material to spark off original ideas for composing and improvising.
Contents
- Contents: World Map.
- 1. Rhythm;
- 2. Shaping melodies;
- 3. Timbre;
- 4. Tempo and dynamics - expressive effects;
- 5. Major, Minor, and pentatonic;
- 6. Music with a drone;
- 7. Chords and chord patterns;
- 8. Graphic notation;
- 9. Ternary form; 10 .Using ostinatos;
- 11. Some musical devices;
- 12. Mood and character;
- 13. Texture;
- 14. Rondo form;
- 15. Programme music;
- 16. Timbre - new sound, new colours;
- 17. Words and music;
- 18. Making comparisons;
- 19. Rhythm;
- 20. Chords and clusters;
- 21. Music as background to words;
- 22. Tension and release;
- 23. More musical devices;
- 24. Variations;
- 25. Chromatic, whole-tone and modal;
- 26. Timbre - exploring the voice;
- 27. Making use of physical space;
- 28. Tonal and atonal;
- 29. Chance and choice - aleatory music;
- 30. Mixed media, and the theatre element.
