Edexcel AS Music Revision Guide - Softcover

Wightman, Alistair

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783050322 ISBN 13: 9781783050321

Publisher: Rhinegold Education, 2013

Synopsis

For examination in June 2009 onwards

Formerly known as the Edexcel AS Music Revision Lifeline, the AS Music Revision Guide, 2nd Edition, is designed to fully prepare the student for the final AS music exam by providing a concise breakdown of the course, along with plenty of tips, test-yourself questions and essential advice.

The guide is clear and concise. There are short, snappy reminders of the key facts for each topic, listing essential information in easy-to-remember tables and bullet points. All of that is topped off with test-yourself questions for all the set works for 2009 and 2010, as well as practice exercises to help you check your harmony for basic errors.

Your revision guide will help you to:

understand how the exam works see how questions are worded prepare for what your examiners are looking for discover how marks are won and how they are thrown away As ever, the real work is down to the student, but this guide will point them in the right direction and help give the edge needed for a better grade.

About this title

About the Author

Alistair Wightman read Music at Oxford and then York University, where he was awarded a D.Phil for his study of Karol Szymanowski. He has worked in primary, secondary and further education, and is a freelance teacher and writer, as well as principal examiner in history and analysis in A-level music. His publications include Writing about Music (Rhinegold, 2008) and several books and articles devoted to Tadeusz Baird, Karlowicz, and Szymanowski, including Karlowicz, Young Poland and the Musical Fin-de-siecle (Ashgate, 1996), Karol Szymanowski: his Life and Music (Ashgate, 1999) and Szymanowski on Music: Selected Writings of Karol Szymanowski (Toccata Press, 1999).

Edition details

• Publisher: Rhinegold Education
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783050322
• ISBN 13: 9781783050321
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 112