Chopin Ballade No. 2 in F Major Sibelius Score AQA A Level Music

This resource comprises a complete Sibelius Score for Frederic Chopin’s Ballade No. 2 in F Major, Opus 38 for piano, currently on the AQA A Level Music specification as part of Strand C, the Piano Music of Chopin, Brahms, and Grieg.

For your ease and convenience, you will find 10 different Sibelius versions of the score as follows: Sibelius 7.5; Sibelius 7; Sibelius 7 First; Sibelius 6; Sibelius 6 First; Sibelius Student; Sibelius 5; Sibelius 5 First; Sibelius 5 Student; Sibelius 4.

A Sibelius score is an invaluable tool when teaching set works as it allows you to isolate specific passages and the right or left hand piano parts of the score to either play back or study. It brings the more traditional printed score to life, and not only that, it is an extremely useful aid for analysis, too – for teachers and students. Sibelius software contains some excellent tools that, amongst many other things, will analyse chords for you across both parts, making key changes easier to identify, and it can find motifs, including developments of motifs. For this particular piece, it is extremely useful for being able to slow down the Presto con Fuoco and agitato sections! At the other end of the learning spectrum, if you have students who struggle with reading the bass clef part, and it is getting in the way of their ability to analyse harmony in class, with a click or two you can put both parts into treble clef, and transpose it up an octave. Students can then continue in their own time to develop their wider score-reading skills without them falling behind in harmonic analysis, too. A Sibelius score is a win-win, every time – just make sure that you have a version of the Sibelius software mentioned in the 2nd paragraph above, if you decide to purchase this resource.

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