Sound Matters An Anthology of Listening Material for GCSE Music

This anthology of 72 music examples, consisting of the Teacher's Manual, Pupil's Questions, Music Book and two recordings on CD or cassettes, is intended to provide comprehensive resource materials for the listening component of the GCSE music syllabuses. The extracts have been selected especially to illustrate the periods, styles and rudiments of music encompassed within the syllabuses, and the four components of the publication produced to ensure maximum assistance to the teacher in the classroom. Selected contents: MUSIC IN THE LATE RENAISSANCE O quam gloriosum est regnum • T. Morley: MUSIC IN THE BAROQUE ERA: H. Purcell: Hark, each tree (from Ode for St Cecilia's Day) • A. Vivaldi: Second Allegro (from Op. 3 No. 11) • G.F. Handel: Lascia ch'io • J.S. Bach: Erschienen ist der herrliche Tag (BWV 629) • F. Couperin: Le Petit-Rein MUSIC IN THE ROMANTIC PERIOD: F. Schubert: Am Meer (from Schwanengesang) • H. Berlioz: Un Bal (from Symphonie fantastique) • F. Chopin: Mazurka (Op. 7 No. 5) • R. Schumann: Fantasiestück (Op. 73 No. 1) • R. Wagner: Prelude (to Tristan and Isolde) • R. Strauss: Epilog (from Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche) • MUSIC IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: B. Bartók: Third movement (from Sonata for two Pianos and Percussion) • K. Stockhausen: Zyklus • C. Berberian: Stripsody • JAZZ AND POP: F. Molton: Peace in the Valley • Bix Beiderbecke and his Gang: Jazz Me Blues • The Platters: Only You • E. Fitzgerald: Mack the Knife • S. Getz and A. Gilberto: The Girl From Ipanema and more.