Fortissimo! Student's book

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.

Roy Bennett (Author)

9780521569231, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 25 July 1996

256 pages
27 x 21.7 x 1.4 cm, 0.718 kg

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: 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.

Subject Areas: Educational: Music [YQB]