AS Music Composition Workbook

AS Music Composition Workbook will guide you through the process of creating musical ideas and working with some of the most common musical forms. It is an ideal approach for developing your compositional skills and raising the standard of your work Music Composition Workbook builds on the earlier GCSE Music Composition Workbook. This book has been written for those submitting compositions as part of their coursework, and although the projects have been chosen to be suitable for AS Music, they offer useful guidance to anyone wishing to take composing to a higher level. The book offers essential generic advice and five composing projects, covering composing for choir, composing expressively and using a storyboard, writing for rock and pop instruments with verse-chorus form, and writing for piano and keyboard in rondo form. A useful glossary is included.
Alan Charlton is a freelance composer. He was awarded the first ever PhD in Composition from Bristol University in 1997 and was the first Eileen Norris Fellow in Composition at Bedford School (19992002). He was head of music technology at Bedford School from 20002009 and is also an examiner for Edexcel. Robert Steadman is a prolific composer who has written music ranging from symphonies and operas to primary-school musicals and pieces for brass band. Among his many commissions he has written works for the percussionist Evelyn Glennie, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Serpent Trio. He currently teaches part-time at Lady Manners School, Bakewell, as well as providing workshops and INSET on composition and music-technology topics. He has been an examiner for all the major exam boards. He writes for Rhinegolds Classroom Music and is the author of AQA GCSE Music Revision Lifelines and co-author of Revision Lifelines for AS and A2 Music Technology.