Listen Around Cassette

This cassette accompanies "Listen Around", a graded listening course designed for GCSE.

It covers a wide spectrum of music and is divided into sections entitled "beats and bars", "shapes and sizes", "chords and cadences", "groups and families" and "light and shade".

It covers a wide spectrum of music from early times to the present day in both popular and classical styles.

The main musical elements are explored - melody, simple harmony and instrumental and vocal grouping - with illustrations given from folk, rock, jazz, barber shop, brass bands, Gilbert and Sullivan, synthesized sound techniques and classical music styles.

A teacher's book is also available. This is a Cambridge University Press publication from July, 1995.