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
There are many different approaches and reasons for charting and celebrating progress as a visiting music teacher. Understanding these reasons is the key to finding the best method to suit your...
Richard Barnard Peripatetic Teaching
Why don't students practise? If we focus on these three key areas in our lessons, we’ll give our students the best chances of extending their music education and enjoyment for as long as possible:
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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
Performing is considered by most teachers to be an integral part of playing a musical instrument. But it can create immense stress, especially for students who are shy or anxious. Performing has both...
Edward Maxwell Peripatetic Teaching
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
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...
Jane Werry Secondary
In this resource, Edward Maxwell gives practical advice on setting up and running instrumental ensembles at beginners, intermediate and mixed-ability levels, including choosing repertoire, writing...
Edward Maxwell Peripatetic Teaching
This resource will outline how to use composing tasks to create a vivid, dramatic version of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol with a KS3 group. The tasks will focus on moments and motifs from the story and...
Richard Barnard Composition
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...
Simon Rushby Secondary