Teaching Materials | KS 5

Developing wider listening: minimalism

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...

Composition

Eduqas AoS A: Haydn Symphony No. 104 ‘London’

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...

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Vocal health for teachers

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...

KS 3

Developing wider listening: neo-Classicism

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...

KS 4

AQA AoS1 Mozart operas: wider listening

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...

KS 5

Developing wider listening: Impressionism

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...

Secondary

Eduqas AoS A: Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4 ‘Italian’

This approach to the Symphony focuses on dealing with sound in the first instance, before getting embroiled in the minutiae of a score. It suggests using a free MIDI file of the Symphony to take it...

Secondary

Developing wider listening: nationalism

In this resource – the first in a short series on ‘-isms’ in musical style – we’ll look at some of the key examples of nationalist music, charting its development from the late Classical period to the...

Secondary

Edexcel AoS6: New Directions – wider listening and other perspectives, part two

This is the second of two resources exploring Edxcel’s suggestions for wider listening and ‘other perspectives’ based around its A level AoS6, New Directions. Here, we look at two influential figures...

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Notation in composition

The main focus of this resource is to examine how notation can both inspire and hinder students in their composing. We’ll concentrate mainly on Western staff notation and its use in various styles,...

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Edexcel AoS6: New Directions – wider listening and other perspectives, part one

This resource, the first of two resources that will look at some of Edexcel’s suggestions for wider listening and ‘other perspectives’, will look in detail at two iconic works of European avant-garde...

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AQA AoS1 Piano music of Chopin, Brahms and Grieg: context and wider listening

Study of the set pieces by the three named composers in this strand gives the student understanding of the key features of the works and genre, as well as providing them with a broad context of the...

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