Writing About Music Workbook - Softcover

Alastair Wightman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1906178380 ISBN 13: 9781906178383

Publisher: Rhinegold Publishing, 2008

Synopsis

Exam boards: Edexcel, AQA, OCR, WJECThis workbook will develop students' skills in writing about music for AS, A2 and undergraduate level.Exercises appear at every stage to challenge and provide examination practice for students. These range from naming musical features and spotting grammatical errors to devising essay plans and analysing sample answers.Beginning with fundamental writing requirements, this workbook moves on to address how to describe the features of a musical work, as well as how to make comparisons and contrasts between specified pieces.There is advice on how to approach research, what to retain and reject, and how to structure anessay.Detailed, analytical and dissertation-style essays are addressed, as well as writing programme notes.Writing About Music Workbook promotes the development of skills which will be of use in many areas of academic life: collecting information, selecting relevant material, presenting arguments for and against particular propositions, and expressing ideas effectively and correctly in English.'Wightman has achieved just the right tone, with very clear explanations... I would feel confident giving it to pupils to read in their own time, as it's very easy for them to work from it, making it a useful resource to reinforce the comments I write on their essays... I think it's probably one of the most genuinely useful books of its type.'Russell MillardHead of Academic Music, Charterhouse

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Product Description:

Writing about Music Workbook is designed to help you develop your skills in expressing your opinions about music through the use of correctly applied terminology and clear, comprehensible English. It addresses how to describe the features of a musical work, as well as how to make comparisons and contrasts between specified pieces. There is advice on how best to tackle research and the collection of information, and how to structure an essay. Examples are provided, drawing on many different types of music. Help is given on how to approach detailed set-work questions, extended essays and programme notes. Also included are some argument-provoking, open-ended questions that invite you to consider and structure responses to broader musical issues. Suitable for AS and A2 students of music, progressing on to those taking the IB diploma or Cambridge Pre-U exams, and designed to bridge the gap for those continuing on to university studies, this book supports the development of skills useful to many areas of academic life.

About the Author:

Alistair Wightman has worked in primary, secondary and further education, and continues to teach at the Staffordshire County Council School for talented young musicians. He is also a freelance teacher and writer, and serves as a principal examiner in music history and analysis in A-level music with one of the English examination boards. In addition to appearing as a pianist, both as a soloist and as a member of the Chiarina Trio, he continues to pursue his interests in Polish music, his publications including several books and articles devoted to Tadeusz Baird, Karlowicz, and Szymanowski.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rhinegold Publishing
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1906178380
• ISBN 13: 9781906178383
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96