Alongside the prescribed work in OCR’s Area of Study 1 (Instrumental Music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven), it’s essential that students familiarise themselves with wider listening from this period.
Hanh Doan Teaching Materials
This resource will focus entirely on Debussy’s Nuages, to help students prepare for the component 3 written exam. There’s more detail on the kinds of questions that can be asked, as well as a sample...
Simon Rushby Teaching Materials
By the end of the 1970s, pop music was a vastly commercial business, and its exponents often enjoyed immense riches and luxurious lifestyles, paid for by healthy record sales, airplay on radio or TV,...
Simon Rushby Teaching Materials
In this resource I’ll delve deeper into the development process, looking in more detail at techniques and suggestions to create sophisticated musical progression in composition from a starting idea.
Richard Barnard Teaching Materials
This is the third part of our latest series of wider listening resources, exploring pop music in the second half of the 20th century. We’ve tracked the journey of pop music from its roots in American...
Simon Rushby Teaching Materials
The first movement of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 is the prescribed work for OCR’s AoS1 for examination in 2024, and should be studied and contextualised within a number of other works in this...
Hanh Doan Teaching Materials
Last month, we began the latest part of our wider listening series, exploring the diversity of pop music in the second half of the 20th century, decade by decade. We looked at four specific genres of...
Simon Rushby Teaching Materials
Now that wider listening is such a key part of the exam boards’ music specifications, students taking GCSE and A level music need to have a broad understanding of a range of musical styles in addition...
Simon Rushby Teaching Materials
In this resource, we’ll look at Rhapsody in Blue’s origins, its stylistic influences, its musical features, and its array of chameleon-like, shapeshifting versions.
Jane Werry Teaching Materials
After an initial exploration of the background to Bach’s St John Passion, this resource will cover specific numbers, in accordance with the requirements of the Cambridge Pre-U specification. This...
Jane Werry KS 5
This resource provides an overview of James MacMillan as a figure in contemporary classical music, as well as looking in detail at three of his works across contrasting genres – the percussion...
David Kettle KS 5
Part one of our whistle-stop tour of musical theatre focused on the way in which musicals are written. This month, we’ll take a journey from the time of these composers, at the end of the 1930s, to...
Simon Rushby KS 4