Teaching blues at KS3 has become something of an old chestnut. However, there is a lot of value to be had from including it in your KS3 plans.
Jane Werry Teaching Materials
In part two to this three-part resource (March 2019), we saw how Romantic composers of all creative persuasions, whether nationalist or individualist, took up the challenge of extending Beethoven's...
Jonathan James Teaching Materials
This resource is intended to provide activities and ideas for students that will help them to revise effectively for the summer GCSE music exam, and it follows a resource on general strategies for...
Simon Rushby Teaching Materials
Mentoring a trainee music teacher or newly qualified teacher can be hard work and time-consuming. But it is also incredibly rewarding, and is guaranteed to make you reflect on your own practice. With...
Jane Werry Teaching Materials
Revision can be a word with largely negative connotations. For teachers, it can mean producing ‘packs’ and summary resources, going back over old ground with students, and finding innovative ways to...
Simon Rushby Teaching Materials
In the second of this three-part resource (for part one, see MT February 2019), we will be joining the story of the symphony at its heyday in the 19th century, where the form expanded and evolved at...
Jonathan James Teaching Materials
This resource starts with a percussion groove and a group performance of ‘Toca bonito’, and from there moves into the creation of salsa-style cover versions, which could be performed live or using...
Jane Werry Teaching Materials
This is the first in a three-part resource that uses the development of the symphony as a guide for charting the evolution of large-ensemble instrumental writing in Western classical music. As such,...
Jonathan James Teaching Materials
What is music? What is composition? What is a ‘new direction’ in music? Who is John Cage? These are the topics I'll cover in this resource on John Cage's Three Dances for two prepared pianos, one of...
James Manwaring Teaching Materials
There are many advantages to exploring graphic notation in the classroom. It's a fact that most of our young students will only have a limited experience of working with and understanding standard...
David Ashworth Teaching Materials
Teaching variations gives a lot of bang for your buck: you can explore many musical concepts through a unit on variations in a relatively short space of time. These include meaty compositional...
Jane Werry Teaching Materials
Following an earlier resource on gaming music (AQA AoS2: Computer gaming music, Music Teacher, November 2018), here I'm going to consider ways of teaching computer game music using composition. This...
James Manwaring Teaching Materials