Music To Hear

Par PROSSER STEVE. Steve Prosser?s Intervallic Ear Training for Musicians is the product of 35 years studying and teaching interval awareness in music. The text provides a step-by-step method for assimilation of, as well as graded exercises for, each interval. Each Chapter concludes with Mastery Exercises and Etudes. After adequate study of the text, the student will be able to hear, recognize, read and write music through the use of musical intervals. This skill is particularly helpful in dealing with music that is extremely chromatic, tonally ambiguous or rapidly modulating. / Méthode / Méthode / Tout Instrument

I Hear The Band is one of three new Earlybirds music activity packs guaranteed to get under-fives moving listening and having fun with music. Each pack has twelve songs a CD and cross-curricular activity plans. Earlybirds develops singing dancing and musical understanding in a practical easy-to-use format. Enjoy!The packs includes a CD with full performance tracks for all twelve songs lyrics for all twelve songs and activity plans with cross-curricular activities for all twelve songs.

Par HARRIS PAUL. The very thought of aural, especially in examinations, strikes fear into the heart of many young pianists and instrumentalists. But aural should not be an occasional optional extra, it?s something to be developing all the time, because having a good ear will help you to improve as a musician more than any other single musical skill. Improve your Aural! Is designed to take the fear out of aural. Through fun listening activities, boxes to fill in and practice exercises, this workbook focuses on all the elements of the aural test. And because all aspects of musical training are of course connected, a range of interconnected activities are included to help develop the ear including singing, clapping, playing your instrument, writing music down, improvising and composing. This new edition of this popular series supports new ABRSM syllabus requirements from 2010, ensuring success in the aural test of graded exams. All the answers for Improve Your Aural! Grade 3 are provided on the last page of the physical book. / Methods and Tutors / Solfège/Formation Musicale / Ecoute

UK version. Discover music theory with your favourite Disney Frozen characters in this Disney Frozen Music Activity Book. Packed full of theory games, puzzles, and interactive activities, this book also features your favourite songs from Frozen and Frozen 2, making it the ideal learning tool for all young musicians.

Richard Reed Parry's Quartet For Heart And Breath is an innovative and original piece based on the performers' own bodily rhythms. This sheet music is for String Quartet (Violin/Violin/Viola/Cello).Richard Reed Parry is familiar to millions as the lead singer of rock band Arcade Fire, yet his foray into classical music is equally worthy of attention. Quartet For Heart And Breath is an experiment into using the performers' heartbeats and breathing to dictate the tempo. The performers are instructed to wear stethoscopes in order to listen to their heartbeats closely, while one complete breath corresponds to one bar and two heartbeats equal two crotchets.The result is a quiet and subtle piece, as each instrument has to play softly so as to be able to keep in time. The piece also has a naturally occurring dynamism in that the players' heart rates constantly change as the performance goes on, with each instrument falling in and out of sync sometimes culminating in a beautiful moment of all heartbeats matching each other. Interestingly, this unique aspect means that no performance will ever be the same, meaning to hear or play this composition will be a truly once in a lifetime experience.Quartet For Heart And Breath is a superbly one-of-a-kind composition by Richard Reed Parry. Commissioned by the Kronos Quartet, this piece makes for a wonderfully distinctive performance, with fascinating implications for the connection between the music and the body. / Quatuor A Cordes

100 Years Of Popular Music. 100 Years of Popular Music chronicles the greatest music of the last century. This book contains more than 70 songs from the 1940s arranged for piano, voice and guitar, providing a fascinating insight into the music of the era. A listing of new inventions first seen during the 1940s is also included. **Trinity College London selected piece (Singing 2010-2012): Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me (Ellington)/ Recueil / Piano, Chant et Guitare

Richard Reed Parry's Quartet For Heart And Breath for mixed Ensemble.Quartet for Heart And Breath was commissioned for Kronos Quartet by the 2009 MusicNOW Festival. The mixedEnsemble arrangement was premiered by yMusic.Instrumentation: Flute Clarinet in Bb Trumpet in Bb Violin Viola Violoncello and Double Bass (optional).'This piece is based around the idea of using the widelyvarying internal rhythms of the performers? bodies as performance parameters. There is no actual tempo or meter built into the piece. The breathing rates of the players are used in alternation with the individual performers? heartrates to determine the pace at which all of the musical material is played. This requires that the performers generally play quietly and delicately with little or no vibrato so as to be able to hear their heartbeats adequately.This in combination with thenatural variance between the different heart rates results in a kind of delicate musical ?pointillism?: starts and stops which are somewhat staggered parts which repeatedly line up and fall out ofsync with each other different individuals? pulses rising and falling. The piece is never performed exactly the same way twice.The performers wear stethoscopes positioned over their hearts so that each can follow his orher own heart rate. Two eighth notes/quavers correspond to the two sounds of a normal heartbeat and performers should match as closely as possible the staccato and irregular rhythm they hear. When instructed to ?play to breath? the natural cycle of one inhalation and one exhalation or vice versa will determine the length of the bar (two quarter notes/crotchets) without any attempt to make it metronomic. For wind players this means that the phrase isextended to encompass the whole of their natural breath without straining to hold for as long as possible. When one instrument is designated the leader their breath will determine the starts of phrases and the procession from

Richard Reed Parry's Heart And Breath Sextet for Piano Six-hands Violin Viola and Violoncello.Heart And Breath Sextet was commissioned by the 2011 MusicNOW Festival foryMusic.'This piece is based around the idea of using the widely varying internal rhythms of the performers? bodies as performance parameters. There is no actual tempo or meter built into the piece. The breathing ratesof the players are used in alternation with the individualperformers? heart rates to determine the pace at which all of the musical material is played. This requires that the performers generally play quietly and delicately so asto be able to hear their heartbeats adequately. This in combination with the natural variance between the different heart rates results in a kind of delicate musical ?pointillism?: starts and stops which are somewhat staggered parts which repeatedly line up and fall out of synch with each other different individuals? pulses rising and falling. The piece is never performed exactly the same way twice.In this piece the pianists wear stethoscopespositioned over their hearts so that each can follow his or her own heart rate. Two eighth notes (quavers) correspond to the two sounds of a single normal heartbeat and performers should match as closely as possible the staccatoand irregular rhythm they hear. The strings are instructed to ?play to breath?; the natural cycle of one inhalation and one exhalation or vice versa will determine the length of the bar (two quarter notes/crotchets) without anyattempt to make it metronomic. When one instrument is designated the leader their breath will determine the starts of phrases and the procession from one bar to the next cuing other parts if necessary.' - RichardReed Parry

Par RADLEY ROBERTA. Ear player, schooled musician, or somewhere in between — this book will improve your ability to transcribe music, and help you make the connection between the music you hear and what it looks like on the page. This book defines a step-by-step process, the “ABCs,” toward achieving the goal of seeing what you hear, and hearing what you see. A simple formula is used for this process: Listening (ear training) + Analysis (brain training) = Successful Transcription. Throughout this book you will participate in a variety of listening, singing, playing, reading and composing activities, all designed to prepare you for the ultimate goal of writing down musical ideas — creating a finished transcription. The heart and soul of this book is transcribing “real music” examples. Throughout the book you’ll be working with over 300 songs from almost every musical genre. Teachers will find hundreds of pages of helpful ideas here that will augment your ear training instruction. / Methods & Tutors / Solfège/Formation Musicale / Tout Instrument