This resource considers how we can use instruments to teach key concepts in music. It will focus on practical learning and how we can best approach it.
James Manwaring Teaching Materials
Understanding the background and context to music they listen to, hear on TV or play is an incredibly useful skill for all musicians, especially those studying music for GCSE or A level, since wider...
Simon Rushby Teaching Materials
The AQA specification lists musical elements to examine and identify in Shostakovich’s works. Here is a brief guide to some of the more general aspects to listen for in his music, before a closer look...
Richard Barnard Teaching Materials
Over the years, I’ve picked up a lot of knowledge about the workings of a music department and what are the best, most effective and value-for-money ways to keep it running. For the sake of space,...
Paul White Teaching Materials
This month, we’ll continue our journey from the 1950s to the present day, picking out some worthwhile examples and identifying some performing, composing and listening activities that can help your...
Simon Rushby Teaching Materials
This resource will consider two works: Liszt’s Prometheus, written in 1850, the fifth of his 13 symphonic poems; Dvořák’s The Noon Witch, written in 1896, the second of his later set of five symphonic...
Jane Werry Teaching Materials
In this resource, I’ll be exploring a range of jazz standards to give students an understanding of common chord progressions, as well as harmonic direction, structure and devices that will aid their...
David Guinane Teaching Materials
In this resource I’ll explore how teachers can cultivate independence in students both during and outside their lessons. I’ll examine a range of different theories that we can employ in order to...
Helen Reid Teaching Materials
One of the things that makes music a difficult subject to teach is its very nature. It’s ephemeral and invisible, and it exists only as movements of the air at a particular place and time. A score of...
Jane Werry Teaching Materials
For more than 100 years, music has played an essential role in films, relied upon to enhance the mood, set the atmosphere, signal changes and magnify the impact of the action on screen. Music can do...
Simon Rushby Teaching Materials
This is the second part of a resource looking at the development of the symphony, which is the compulsory Area of Study for Eduqas AS and A level. AS students study from 1750 to 1830 (which was mostly...
Maria Johnson Teaching Materials
In this resource, Edward Maxwell will be looking at how learning literacy can provide a useful model for learning to read music: teaching music should take a holistic approach in which reading,...
Edward Maxwell Teaching Materials