Music Express Year 7: Musical Cycles - West Africa: Bk. 3 (Music Express): Musical Cycles (West Africa) (Book + CD + CD-ROM)

Bray, Elizabeth; Hanke, Maureen; Keeler, Emily; Stephens, John

ISBN 10: 0713673648 ISBN 13: 9780713673647

Publisher: Collins Music, 2005

Synopsis

Musical Cycles (West Africa) is the third of six individual Book + CD + CD-ROM packs in Music Express Year 7. An exciting, stimulating and lively unit on musical cycles, focussing on traditional and modern music from West Africa.

MUSIC EXPRESS YEAR 7follows on from the award-winning Music Scheme for Primary Schools. Year 7 is published in six individual Book + CD + CD-ROM packs, each filled with all the resources a teacher could need and offering the flexibility to use acoustic instruments, electronic keyboards and ICT as suits the specific needs of any school! Each pack provides high quality, imaginative and inspirational music lessons for teaching a half term unit of work, and includes teaching activities, recordings, backing tracks, midi files, videoclips, assessment sheets, pupils' sheets, sample lesson plans and much much more...

Musical Cycles (West Africa) is the third of the six titles. An exciting, stimulating and lively unit on musical cycles, focusing on traditional and modern music from West Africa.

About this title

Product Description:

The Music Express Series provides a range of activities and ideas to aid the teaching of music, helping to make it fun and factual! This Musical Cycles (West Africa) edition is the third of six units in the Year 7 series and builds on the skills and experience developed in previous years. There are plenty of helpful suggestions and ideas for classroom activities, homework and extension of the course to suit individual timetables. Superbly planned, user-friendly and inclusive, this is a terrific method guide and resource for teachers. with diagrams, symbols and graphics this is designed to be as easy and accessible as possible, even for thosewith little music teaching experience. Musical Cycles is a lively, stimulating unit that introduces cyclic patterns through the exploration of traditional and modern music from West Africa. By listening to music by Mamady Keita and Oumou Sangare, pupils learn to perform an arrangement of the traditional rhythm Djole and compose their own cyclic pieces.

Synopsis:

MUSIC EXPRESS YEAR 7 follows on from the award-winning Music Scheme for Primary Schools. Year 7 is published in six individual Book + CD + CD-ROM packs, each filled with all the resources a teacher could need and offering the flexibility to use acoustic instruments, electronic keyboards and ICT as suits the specific needs of any school! Each pack provides high quality, imaginative and inspirational music lessons for teaching a half term unit of work, and includes teaching activities, recordings, backing tracks, midi files, videoclips, assessment sheets, pupils' sheets, sample lesson plans and much much more Musical Cycles (West Africa) is the third of the six titles. An exciting, stimulating and lively unit on musical cycles, focussing on traditional and modern music from West Africa.

About this edition

• Publisher: Collins Music
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0713673648
• ISBN 13: 9780713673647
• Binding: Audio CD
• Editor: Daley Michelle
• Illustrator: Hutchings Graham, Takasaki Yuzuru, Damerum Kanako