Welcome to the final resource in a three-part series covering recording in the classroom (for the previous two resources, see Music Teacher, April 2023 and July 2023). This time, we’ll move on to the...
Paul White Teaching Materials
Few musical genres developed faster than jazz. Within some 30 years, this loosely termed style rose from African-American folk beginnings to become the most popular music in America. Much of this...
Simon Rushby Teaching Materials
The final movement of Brahms’s First Symphony is a 16-minute epic, befitting of a Symphony that took more than 20 years to write. It is chock-full of the kind of structural detail that shows Brahms’s...
Jane Werry Teaching Materials
The first movement of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 is the prescribed work in OCR’s Area of Study 1 (Instrumental Music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven) for 2024 (and covered in its own Music...
Hanh Doan Teaching Materials
In the first of this three-part resource on recording music in schools, we looked at options for setting up a studio (Music Teacher, April 2023). In this second resource, we’ll move on to the...
Paul White Teaching Materials
It’s no overstatement to say that the biggest influence on 20th-century popular music is probably the blues.
Simon Rushby Teaching Materials
Every music department is different, in terms of staffing, rooms, resources and budgets.
James Manwaring Teaching Materials
The resource provides an analysis of the three set works in WJEC’s AoS F, List A, Strand 1: Impressionism.
Phil Baker Teaching Materials
The last five resources in the Developing Wider Listening series – which has now been running for over two years – have taken us on a journey through a huge diversity of popular musical styles, which...
Simon Rushby Teaching Materials
This is the first in a short series of resources looking at the different aspects of sound recording in schools.
Paul White Teaching Materials
The pop scene in the 1980s was a hugely diverse, technology-driven hotbed of high fashion, music videos and ultra-fast stylistic changes. In part one of this resource (Music Teacher, February 2023) we...
Simon Rushby Teaching Materials
Contemporary ‘classical’ music is an essential element of any music course, at any level. If we are to create lifelong learners who take a passion for music into their adult lives, it’s imperative...
David Guinane Teaching Materials