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.
- ISBN13 9780582013438
- Publish Date December 1990
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 2 March 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Cambridge University Press
- Format Audiobook
- Language English