The Pop Composers Handbook

The Pop Composers Handbook

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  • Product Number: ED12723
  • Publisher: Schott
  • Barcode: 9781902455600
  • Arrangement: Text
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Anyone who can pick up a pencil can draw. Anyone who can sing or play an instrument can compose. Following the successful formula of The Composer’s Handbook, The Pop Composer’s Handbook is a step-by-step guide to the composition of melody, harmony, rhythm and structure and covers styles and song-writing techniques from rock, reggae and salsa to bhangra, club and steel band.The book is aimed at composers aged 11 to 18 and beyond. It includes games and warm-ups, whole-class projects, worksheets and schemes, projects for the more advanced and advice on recording and producing.Bruce Cole studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music with Sir Harrison Birtwistle and has pursued a joint career as a composer and teacher. He has taught at most levels from pre-school to postgraduate, including teacher training, working with young people with special needs and prison education. His work as a composer has included orchestral commissions, scores for film, television, theatre, dance and new circus as well as collaborations with The Rolling Stones, Squeeze, Joan Armatrading and Asian Dub Foundation.Bruce Cole is currently Fellow in Community Music at the University of York and Chief Examiner of a national examination board.

  • Rhythm:
  • Key features of rhythm in popular music
  • Style, metre and tempo
  • Building on a one-bar pattern
  • Using technology
  • .
  • Melody:
  • Pop melody
  • Extending melody
  • Advanced melody writing
  • .
  • Harmony:
  • Melody and harmony
  • Why does pop harmony sound different from classical harmony?
  • Chord progressions
  • Dissonance
  • .
  • Structure:
  • Harmony and structure
  • Standard structures
  • 32-bar song form
  • Verse and chorus
  • Highlighting the chorus
  • .
  • Instruments:
  • The instrument of popular music
  • .
  • Production:
  • Microphones
  • Making the recording
  • Post production
  • Scoring parts
  • .
  • Riffs:
  • Adding a new section
  • Study project: Tubular Bells
  • .
  • Songs:
  • George Gershwin
  • Burt Bacharach
  • John Lennon and Paul McCartney
  • Stevie Wonder
  • Bob Marley
  • Michael Jackson
  • Elton John
  • .
  • Islands and Continents:
  • Reggae
  • Salsa
  • Bhangra
  • Celtic popular music
  • .
  • Club and Urban:
  • The techniques of club music
  • Sampling
  • Recording your own samples
  • Planning the composition
  • Projects
  • .
  • Performing Projects for the Class:
  • Samba
  • Steel band
  • Tala
  • Riff ensemble
  • .
  • Frameworks for Listening:
  • Keeping a listening log
  • Focused listening
  • Listening worksheets
  • Comparisons
  • Differentiating worksheets
  • .
  • Designing Worksheets
  • .
  • Schemes of Work:
  • 32-bar song
  • The instruments of popular music
  • Songs with a message
  • Cut and paste
  • Rhythm
  • The voice
  • .
  • The Computer in the Classroom:
  • Listening
  • Performing
  • Composing

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