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HSC Music 1 & 2 - Book 2 - Rock Music
By Meryl Jackson-Kew, Aleksandar Vujic
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3rd Edition
A comprehensive study book with music examples, questions, activities and answers within the topic Rock music.
This book is the second in a series of books that are topic based and are suitable for study in Preliminary and HSC courses of Music in the NSW BOSTES syllabi.
Each topic bookl explores the six concepts of music- pitch, duration, texture, tone colour, structure, dynamics and expressive techniques as well as unity and contrast.
There are two ways to approach the analysis of each excerpt in this book: -
Part 1: Using dot points, rhythm and graphic notation.
Part 2: Written response in paragraph style.
All the exercises and questions throughout Rock Music are designed to be analysed at the student’s pace and not under examination conditions. They can be used to enhance practise in writing graphic notation and aural analysis. Each listening example has a main question on which to focus, as well as the inclusion of other activities which will provide a variety of ways to approach aural analysis.
At the conclusion of each listening example is a summary of the unity and contrast found within the music.
We have given our own interpretation of how each question can be approached and this can be used as a guide to the analysis of each musical piece.
Written 2016
Review by Music Teachers' Association NSW in Studio magazine August 2017
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ISBN9781876829599Humility
By Michael Hugh Dixon
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Violin, Horn, 'cello, c.8'30CD of this work, LOCANA, is available online.
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ISMN M720041407
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Humoresque
By Miriam Hyde
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Solo piano, c. 4'02. AMEB Grade, LMus
'This undoubtedly shows the influence of my year's study with Arthur Benjamin (Australian-born composer-pianist) in London, 1935. In his own writing, even in the elementary works, one sees his characteristic way of using neat, interlocking figuration between the hands, with an intimate feeling for the sheer black and white pattern of the keyboard. I used to watch with interest his own deft type of pianism.
The middle section changes from the dynamic rhythmic character to one of my quasi-Spanish interludes.'
Composed 1936
Recorded and performed by the composer on Piano Imagery (Wirr 084), available online.
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ISMN 9790720227436
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Humoresque
By Brendan Collins
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For flute and piano, c3'45. Advanced.
(HSC 7th - Cert.Perf. - extra list/own choice and 8th grade repertoire)
Composed 2022
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ISMN 9790673141797
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Hundred Valleys, A
By Michael Hugh Dixon
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Double horn in Bb and F (notated in F)
Composed 2008
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ISMN 9790720101385
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and horn half speed and coloured score notation: Half speed.
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Hungarian Overture, Two Pianos
By Miriam Hyde
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For two pianos, c.0'48
This work has been structured for teacher and student. Teacher grade 4 and student grade 2/3. Two scores for hard copy purchase.
Composed 1976
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ISMN 9790673144194
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Hymn to the 89th Constellation
By John Spence
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Flute and piano, c.6'10. Grade 8A celebration of the unfathomable mysteries of the universe.
Recorded on the CD, Flute Odyssey (Wirr 016), by Emma Knott and David Miller, available online
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ISMN M720065090
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Hymnphony
By Paul Paviour
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Trumpet and piano, c.4'10. Suggested grade 6-7.Download samples
ISMN720093024
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I am black (Song of Songs)
By Andrew Schultz
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Soprano voice and piano, c.1.35'. Grade 8-A.MusThe text is drawn from the Jerusalem Bible translation of The Song of Songs and depicts a woman's longing for her absent lover. It is unknown whether the woman is swarthy from outdoor work or black skinned racially. In the original text the sequence opens: 'I am black but lovely'. The implied social inequality of the lovers adds strongly to the poignancy of their mutual absorption.
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ISMN M720072661
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I am She
By Tania Owens
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Soprano and piano, c.5'00I am She is a tribute to the female Goddess in all of us. It uses imagery inspired by the expansive waters of Wellington Point in Southeast Queensland where I first met and heard Leanne Swanson-McCarthy and her fellow talented musicians perform at a house concert overlooking Moreton Bay.
The water imagery speaks to me of the female spirit and the sacred role we play as mothers and as givers of life. The cycles of water in the song echoes the cycles of the female body and remind us of the greater cycles of the world and of the universe around us.
Composed 2020
Audio by Rosemarie Arthars (soprano) and Leanne Swanson-McCarthy (piano) used with permission.
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ISMN 9790720249292
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I am Shut Out of Mine Own Heart (Brennan)
By Horace Keats
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Soprano and piano, c.5'30,
- Grade: Lic.Dip
- Genre: Neo classical
- Date: 1937
- Tempo: Moderato, a Brennan love poem, in the words of the composer, one;"Of yearning, and longing..."
Words by Christopher J. Brennan.
Recorded by Jane Parkin and Clemens Leske on A Poet's Composer (Wirr 040) - sample here - and Wendy Dixon and David Miller on Echo both CDs available online
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ISMN M720007151
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I can play that, Book 1
By Joanne Burrows
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33 piano solos written to encourage students to construct knowledge and skills through: reinforcing of learned concepts, develop student transferring skills, and build on prior knowledge. Ideally suited for beginners to preliminary levels. Composed 2017
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ISMN 9790720172330
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