The Beatles’ seventh album Revolver was released in August 1966. Following Rubber Soul and preceding Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (discussed in its own Music Teacher resource, February 2017),...
Simon Rushby Teaching Materials
This resource will not only give some Christmas-themed lesson ideas, but also suggest some one-off lessons that you might like to try. It might be that you’re at the end of a scheme of work, or just...
James Manwaring Teaching Materials
For each of the main pieces covered by this resource, there will be information about its context, background and programme (story). Details regarding each of the musical areas likely to come up in...
Jane Werry Teaching Materials
In this resource I want to go beyond just raising awareness. I want to help teachers and students get ‘under the bonnet’ by looking at some of the rich and diverse composing approaches and strategies...
David Ashworth Teaching Materials
This resource takes students into the 18th-century world of a jobbing Kapellmeister and his hectic life in an illustrious Austro-Hungarian court. It takes a deeper look at why Haydn ended up as ‘Papa’...
Jonathan James Teaching Materials
This resource will begin to unpack film music and also consider ways in which students can approach the study of film music. I will touch on techniques for studying the set works, approaches to wider...
James Manwaring Teaching Materials
This resource is more about the ‘how’ than the ‘what’. How do you present the differences and evolution in styles in a way that works for new, young listeners, so that they can pick them apart with...
Jonathan James Teaching Materials
In this resource, we’ll look at the remaining styles and traditions included in the area of study: African drumming; Calypso from Trinidad and Tobago; Brazilian samba. Once again, this resource...
David Guinane Teaching Materials
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born and raised in Salzburg, where he and his father, Leopold Mozart, were on the Prince Archbishop of Salzburg’s music staff. On discovering and nurturing his children’s...
Hanh Doan Teaching Materials
The focus of this article is on the Year 6 to Year 7 transfer point. But the material is relevant for any period of transition – we’ll look at how to capture accurate baseline information, ways to...
Anna Gower Teaching Materials
This resource is about examining those skills and how we might adapt them when giving advice to young musicians. Although mentoring has been introduced as early as primary school age, the following...
Jonathan James Teaching Materials
This resource covers around half of the styles specified in the OCR AoS, and contains required knowledge as well as details of musical activities that will deepen students’ understanding of the...
David Guinane Teaching Materials