Foundations: aural skills and score reading

A focused guide to the aural and score-reading skills QCE Music students need across Units 3 and 4. Explains active listening, transcription, recognising the elements by ear, following a score in real time and linking sound to notation, with a worked listening-map example and the listening habits that limit student accuracy.

A focused guide to the music language, theory and notation that underpins QCE Music Units 3 and 4. Covers scales and keys, intervals, chords and progressions, metre and rhythmic notation, score-reading conventions and how this theoretical vocabulary supports musicology, composition and performance, with a worked chord-identification example and the theory gaps that limit student results.