This project is about developing an understanding of the value of repeating patterns in music. Students will need to know what a riff is, and the different ways in which repeating patterns can be...
Jane Werry Teaching Materials
Chopin and Schumann are Romantic composers who wrote many piano pieces in the first half of the 19th century. The AQA specification suggests that students study Chopin’s Preludes (including the...
Maria Johnson Teaching Materials
In part one of this resource (Music Teacher, September 2021), we began to see how music, having reached something of a stylistic crossroads at the end of the Romantic period, took off in a multitude...
Simon Rushby Teaching Materials
The environment in which you teach can have a huge impact on the quality, effectiveness and enjoyment of your lessons. Being a visiting music teacher can involve rather unpredictable and challenging...
Richard Barnard Teaching Materials
This resource will explore a number of approaches to teaching contemporary classical music at KS3. It will attempt to curate some of the extensive literature and resources, available both online and...
David Guinane Teaching Materials
Understanding the background and context to music they play or listen to is an incredibly useful skill for all music students. This series aims to broaden that knowledge of musical style across the...
Simon Rushby Teaching Materials
For some musicians, instrumental teaching in schools is a full-time vocation. For others, it provides a welcome element of relative stability in an otherwise volatile and unpredictable world of...
Edward Maxwell Teaching Materials
In essence, learning through story is about developing an internal narrative to give music direction and meaning, in order to engage a listener. We are creating a mental journey to keep a young...
Richard Steggall Teaching Materials
The previous stop on our World Tour series was the Middle East (Music Teacher, March 2021), and for our fifth resource of the series we cross the Red Sea and head west to explore some of the popular...
Simon Rushby Teaching Materials
This resource explores the topic of teaching adult students. For the purposes of this resource, I’ll define adult learners as those who are not learning in a formal educational context, ie school,...
Helen Reid Teaching Materials
Zoltán Kodály’s slogan was ‘Let music belong to everyone!’ And that’s a sentiment very much on display in the suite taken from his popular light opera Háry János. AQA have produced a detailed...
Jonathan James Teaching Materials
Following last month’s resource on BandLab (Music Teacher, June 2021), this month we turn to Soundtrap. Soundtrap and BandLab are both digital audio workstations (or DAWs) based in the cloud. They are...
James Manwaring Teaching Materials