Classroom Music

Expo 2025 speaker Julia Toppin
Music & Drama Education Expo

Meet the Expo 2025 speaker: Julia Toppin

Teaching Materials

Notation in composition

Joe Dart (centre) playing with Vulfpeck and guest artist Cory Wong
Features

Improvisation: a scaffolding approach

Teaching Materials

Edexcel AoS6: New Directions – wider listening and other perspectives, part one

Teaching Materials

AQA AoS1 Piano music of Chopin, Brahms and Grieg: context and wider listening

Teaching Materials

Edexcel AoS1 vocal music: wider listening and other perspectives

Teaching Materials

Eduqas Area of Study E: Poulenc Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano

According to his daughter, the US composer William Grant Still (d. 1979) had a childlike spirit, which is evident in his Animal Sketches collection
Features

Exploring piano repertoire by Black composers

Cuts to extracurricular music activities have implications for social mobility
Opinion

ISM column: the unequal musical playing field

Children enjoy performing in a Christmas play. To make it successful, think carefully about the time available and the difficulty of the piece
Features

Nativity plays – a survey

Spectral analysis: a spectrogram viewing audio signals, with time on the x-axis, frequency on the y-axis, and amplitude shown through brightness of colour
Review

Tech reviews: SpectraLayers 11

Opinion

Black History Month: preparing for the future