Resource list

This is a resource list for the A-level Music specification (7272).

Music for listening/scores

• spotify
• youtube
• naxos

Area of study 1: Western classical tradition 1650-1910

• imslp
• Purcell for Trumpet and Strings – Boosey and Hawkes
• Bach A minor Violin Concerto (Eulenburg)
• Vivaldi Flute Concerto Il Gardellino (Eulenburg)
• The AS exam will use a vocal score of Mozart Le Nozze Di Figaro (Schirmer).
• The A-level exam will use full score of Mozart Le Nozze Di Figaro (Eulenburg).
• Chopin Ballades (Wiener Urtext)
• Chopin Nocturnes (ABRSM)
• Brahms Intermezzo in A and Ballade in Gm (ABRSM)
• Grieg Notturno op.54 no.4 (ABRSM)
• Grieg Complete Lyric Pieces (Schirmer)

Area of study 2: Pop music

• steviewonder.org.uk
• jonimitchell.com
• muse.mu
• beyonce.com
• last.fm/music/Daft+Punk
• labrinthofficial.com/gb/splash

Area of study 3: Music for media

• bernardherrmann.com
• BBC
• hans-zimmer
• last.fm/music/Michael+Giacchino
• last.fm/music/Thomas+Newman

Area of study 4: Music for theatre

• kwf.org
• last.fm/music/Richard+Rodgers
• sondheim
• last.fm/music/Claude-Michel+Schönberg
• jason robert brown

Area of study 5: Jazz

• last.fm/music/Louis+Armstrong
• dukeellington
• cmgww - parker
• Miles Davis
• Pat Metheny
• Gwilym Simcock

Area of study 6: Contemporary traditional music

• piazzolla
• toumani-diabate
• anoushkashankar
• mariza
• bellowhead

Books for study

• Oxford music online
• Focusonsound
• Music Technology from Scratch (Mortimer Rhind-Tutt) Rhinegold Education
• Creative Musical Techniques by Graham Redwood
• How to Write Great Music by David Lowe (www.davelowemusiconline.com)
• The Oxford School Harmony Course (Vols 1 & 2) (James Denny) OUP
• Foundations of Practical Harmony and Counterpoint (R O Morris) Macmillan
• The Oxford Harmony (Vols 1 & 2) (R O Morris) OUP
• Harmony in Practice (Anna Butterworth) (ABRSM)
• Bach Chorale Harmonisation and Instrumental Counterpoint (Malcolm Boyd)
• A Student’s Guide to Harmony and Counterpoint (Hugh Benham) Rhinegold Education
• AS/A2 Music Harmony Workbook (Hugh Benham) Rhinegold Education

Area of Study 1: Western classical tradition 1650-1910

• Music in the Baroque Era (Manfred Bukofzer) Read Books
• Baroque Music in Focus (Hugh Benham) Rhinegold Education
• The Cambridge Companion to the Concerto (Simon Keele) Cambridge University Press
• Purcell Studies (Curtis Price) Cambridge University Press
• Henry Purcell (Martin Adams) Cambridge University Press
• Purcell (Arthur Hutchings) BBC Music Guide
• The Classical Style (Charles Rosen) W.W. Norton
• Mozart and his Operas (David Cairns) penguin
• W A Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro (Tim Carter) Cambridge University Press
• Opera Buffa in Mozart’s Vienna (Hunter and Webster) Cambridge University Press
• Le Nozze Di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro): (English National Opera Guide 17) (Opera Guides)
• The Romantic Generation (Charles Rosen) Harvard University Press
• The Cambridge Companion to the Piano (David Rowland) Cambridge University Press
• Chopin: The Four Ballades (Jim Samson) Cambridge University Press
• The Cambridge Companion to Chopin (Jim Samson) Cambridge University Press
• Brahms Piano Music (Denis Matthews) BBC Music Guide

Area of study 2: Pop music

• Understanding Popular Music (David Ventura) Rhinegold Education

Area of study 3: Music for media

• A History of Film Music (Mervyn Cooke) Cambridge University Press
• Film Music in Focus (David Ventura) Rhinegold Education

Area of study 4: Music for theatre

• The Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Everett and Laird) Cambridge University Press
• Musicals in Focus (Paul Terry) Rhinegold Education
• Sondheim’s Broadway Musicals (Stephen Banfield) University of Michigan

Area of study 5: Jazz

• Jazz Icons (Tony Whyton) Cambridge University Press
• What to Listen For in Jazz (Barry Kernfield) Yale University Press
• Louis Armstrong and Paul Whiteman (Joshua Berrett) Yale University Press
• The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington (Edward Green) Cambridge University Press
• Duke Ellington, Jazz Composer (Ken Rattenbury) Yale University Press

Area of study 6: Contemporary traditional music

• Astor Piazzolla: A Memoir (Natalio Gorin) Amadeus Press
• Le Grand Tango: The Life and Music of Astor Piazzolla Oxford University Press
• The Dawn of Indian Music in the West (Peter Lavezzoli and Ravi Shankar) Continuum
• The African Imagination in Music (Kofi Agawu) Oxford University Press
• Fado and the Place of Longing: Loss, Memory and the City (Richard Elliott) Routledge
• Performing Englishness (Trish Winter and Simon Keegan-Phipps) Manchester University Press

Area of study 7: Art music since 1910 (A-level specification only)

• The Cambridge Companion to Shostakovich (Fairclough and Fanning) Cambridge University Press
• Shostakovich Studies (David Fanning) Cambridge University Press
• Shostakovich Studies 2 (Pauline Fairclough) Cambridge University Press
• Shostakovich Symphonies (Hugh Ottaway) BBC Music Guide
• Messiaen: Quatour pour la fin du temps (Antony Pople) Cambridge University Press
• Messiaen Studies (Robert Sholl) Cambridge University Press
• The Life of Messiaen (Christopher Dingle)
• Four Musical Minimalists (Keith Potter) Cambridge University Press
• James Macmillan Choral Music: A Practical Commentary and Survey (Paul Spicer)

Specifications that use this resource:

• A-level Music 7272