GCSE Performance Pieces - Flute. - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780386397 ISBN 13: 9781780386393

Publisher: Rhinegold Education, 1900

Synopsis

The GCSE Performance Pieces series provides exciting contemporary repertoire levelled specifically for GCSE performance examinations, accompanied by expert commentary to help your students prepare and achieve their potential with material they really want to play. Each book has been compiled by an experienced instrumental teacher/examiner, and overseen by our Series Editor, Andrew Coxon, who is a senior GCSE examiner and an experienced classroom teacher. The songs have been carefully chosen to provide students with the best opportunity to show off their instrument and skills, with a broad range of artists and styles to choose from.

This book forFlute:

• is suitable for all exam boards
• contains ten songs with a range of difficulty appropriate for GCSE level
• is accompanied by a CD of professionally recorded backing tracks

It includes songs by:

• Adele
• The Beatles
• The Mission Impossible theme
• Gershwin
• David Bowie
• Christina Perri
• Miles Davis
• Gerry Rafferty
• Pixie Lott
• Duke Ellington

A YouTube playlist has been created containing all the songs in the book, along with additional suggested listening such as interesting cover versions or other songs for cultural context, allowing the student to explore ideas for their own interpretation.

About this title

About the Author

Clarissa Payne was born in Somerset and won places at Wells Cathedral School and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she studied with Kirsten Spratt, Sarah Newbold and Ian Clarke. She has worked all over the world as a teacher, performer and writer; from London to Kenya and from Iceland to Abu Dhabi. Clarissa has performed and recorded with classical, jazz, rock and folk musicians as well as actors and circus artists. Her articles have appeared in Classical Music, Music Teacher and Flute magazines. Her books for Music Sales include Restart Flute and GCSE Performance Pieces: Flute. She lives in Bristol where she runs a thriving teaching practice and is Visiting Teacher of Flute at Taunton School. In spare moments she plays, sings and bangs a tambourine with garage-rock band McDowell.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rhinegold Education
• Publication date: 1900
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1780386397
• ISBN 13: 9781780386393
• Binding: Paperback