Brithop: The Politics of UK Rap in the New Century

Brithop: The Politics of UK Rap in the New Century : Paperback

Fragments from his dish : A cycle of six choral pieces on the theme of food

for SATB unaccompanied

Music for Children and Young Peopl : with Complex Needs, Paperback

There are around 40,000 children and young people in the UK alone with severe or profound and multiple learning difficulties, in special schools and in mainstream education.Research has indicated that provision is atbest patchy, despite the widely held belief that music is beneficial, both in its own right and to promote wider development.This book seeks to foster progress in what is still a young discipline by reflecting oncontemporary thinking and practice, identifying key issues, introducing recent and ongoing research, and providing practical advice for practitioners including teachers, therapists, and community musicians.

Singing in the Lower Secondary School : Paperback

This is an essential text on an important area of the music curriculum consistently judged weak or inadequate by UK school inspectors.It covers social, physiological, musical, and pedagogical aspects of young adolescentsinging, with focus on Key Stage 3 and the progression from primary school. Grounded in extensive research and authoritatively written, it uses case studies to illustrate best practice, and introduces the principles of cambiata, adedicated approach to the adolescent voice.Other chapters contain practical and proven advice on repertoire, technique, and the motivation of reluctant singers, boosting the confidence of teachers for whom choral work isnotthe main specialism.

A French Song Companion

Now available in paperbackAn indispensable guide to French songContains commentary by internationally famous accompanist, Graham JohnsonInvaluable reference tool with line-by-line translations ofall songs includedHardback edition (which is still selling well) has sold 778 copies since publication date of June 2000 - 289 UK, 400 USA, and 89 ROW.Hardback edition has been widely reviewed in magazines suchas The Singer, Musical Times, Gramaphone, Literary Review (to name a few). More to follow since it's early days.The French Song Companion is the most comprehensive book of French mélodie in any language. Thegreataccompagnist Graham Johnson, a noted authority of song, provides repertoire guides to the work of some 150 composers - the majority of them from France, but including British, American, German, Spanish, and Italian musicianswho have written French vocal music. There are major articles on such figures as Fauré, Duparc, Debussy, Ravel, and Poulenc; substantial articles on Bizet, Chabrier, Gounod, Chausson, Hahn, and Satie; and reassessments of suchcomposers as Massenet, Koechlin, and Leguerney. A host of less celebrated figures who have contributed to the genre take their place in a book which is both informative and entertaining.The biographical articles aresupplemented by the song translations of Richard Stokes, some 700 in all, and a veritable treasury of great French poetry from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries. These stand in their own right as indispensable to musiclovers, concert-goers, and professional singers and their accompanists. This is a book which not only reflects the repertoire as found in today's concert halls, but also encourages performers and armchair enthusiasts to explorethe neglected highways and biways of an endlessly fascinating and highly civilised body of music.