Training Programme, Unit C:
Technical Section
This section contains a series of texts and recommended readings that build upon principles laid down in the earlier Units studied. The text includes some of the most up to date comments on teaching practice at the time of writing, and teachers are recommended to continue to update these throughout their career. These will be discussed in depth during tutorials and students are required to undertake the accompanying tasks.
Knowledge of the syllabuses
All information required will be subject specific
- To be able to teach a piece of grade 8 music using the interconnecting skills of listening and reading notation and fully understand how Information regarding exam pieces can be found
- Thinking about Techniques
- Some Musical Forms of Europe and the Caribbean.
- Develop a working knowledge of scale and chord structure (including whole tone, blues scale and common jazz chords) and their use in improvisation
- Effectively convey to students the principles of arranging music for steel orchestra a
- Describe an arrangement for full steel orchestra that demonstrates understanding of newly acquired information. This arrangement may be developed during the course.
