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
Taking on a student from another teacher can be challenging, especially if you have a very different teaching style from that of your predecessor. The student and their parents may have built up a...
Edward Maxwell Peripatetic Teaching
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