The Music Factory: Teacher Resource Book: A Practical Music Course for National Curriculum Key Stage 3/GCSE - Softcover

Rayner, Jonathan

9780571511167: The Music Factory: Teacher Resource Book: A Practical Music Course for National Curriculum Key Stage 3/GCSE

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571511163 ISBN 13: 9780571511167

Publisher: Faber Music Ltd, 2005

The Music Factory is a comprehensive innovative and practical music course, covering Key Stage 3 of the National Curriculum and GCSE. The core of The Music Factory is this flexible teacher resource book, which contains one hundred and twenty practical activities for classroom music making. This is accompanied by a series of inter-related instrumental workbooks for keyboard, guitar, bass guitar and percussion.

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Synopsis:

A comprehensive and practical music course, covering Key Stage 3 of the National Curriculum and GCSE. While essentially performance-based, all other aspects of National Curriculum requirements - including listening, composing, appraising - form an integral part of the course. The core of "The Music Factory" is a flexible Teacher Resource Book containing 120 practical activities for classroom music-making. Each of its five chapters focuses on a conceptual area: rhythm and metre; pitch and melody; harmony; structure and form; timbre and texture. Each chapter has four sections, progressing from elementary to more advanced material; and each section contains six main activities, each presenting a framework for music-making focused around a particular idea, and involving whole-class, group and individual work. The activities explore a variety of musical styles, and seek to reveal the similarities and characteristics of each. Some activities share a stylistic focus, such as aspects of North Indian classical music, or the 12-bar blues. Whenever possible, suggested listening is drawn from a range of musical cultures.

Linked to this resource book is a series of Instrumental Workbooks for keyboard, guitar, bass guitar and percussion, which complement and support the Teacher Resource Book by approaching the teaching of concepts in a similar way, and encouraging a creative approach to learning an instrument. There is also a separate volume of Ensemble Scores for group performance. The course aims to provide classroom teachers with an inexhaustible fund of ideas for creative activities, closely tailored to National Curriculum requirements, and with a very useful resource for teaching the popular instruments.

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