In May 2024, we looked at short, bankable activities for KS3 that would set the composition ball rolling. As a follow-up, this resource will explore the next steps, looking at ways for your students...
Richard Barnard Teaching Materials
Though it developed out of binary form, sonata form is more like ternary form in the way that it presents thematic material, so a review of last month’s resource would be helpful to support students’...
Simon Rushby Teaching Materials
Whether you’re an adult teacher navigating the complexities of daily life, or a child student exploring the world around you, singing is a surprisingly effective tool for enhancing mental health and...
Jenna Brown Health & Wellbeing
What exactly is wider listening? And what is its purpose? We use related music to strengthen our students’ understanding of the music they’re required to study as part of the specific course they’re...
David Guinane Secondary
Just as a building needs plans and a journey needs a route, all music needs to have some sort of structure. Certain recognised structures crop up frequently in musical compositions, and two of the...
Simon Rushby Secondary
In this resource, we’ll see how minimalism began and quickly took hold, look at the music of its most prominent composers, and find out how it infiltrated the musical style of some notable pop artists...
Simon Rushby Composition
There are many existing resources for Haydn’s Symphony No. 104, including Eduqas’s own excellent teacher guides and a whole array of YouTube videos. This resource is a detailed breakdown of teaching...
Jane Werry Teaching Materials
Whether you’re a full-time curriculum classroom teacher, a peripatetic teacher, a whole-class ensemble leader, or a music assistant, your vocal presence is vital for a successful learning and teaching...
Jenna Brown KS 3
In music, the term neo-Classical can be applied to a wide range of pieces from the 19th century, where composers deliberately ‘harked back’ to music that had gone before, particularly that of the...
Simon Rushby KS 4
This resource will provide a wider context to Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, the set work in Strand B of AQA’s AoS1, the operas of Mozart. It will examine three of Mozart’s other operas, each...
Richard Barnard KS 5
The works listed on the Edexcel AoS2 Vocal Music wider listening list include a selection of three famous solo arias from Handel’s Messiah, ‘The Trumpet Shall Sound’, ‘Rejoice Greatly’ and ‘Every...
Richard Barnard Secondary
In this resource we’ll explore Impressionism through practical and listening activities, supported by contextual background. This resource follows a similar one on nationalism, and two further...
Simon Rushby Secondary