In this multi-part series, we’ll chart the development of Western opera as we know it, from its early incarnations in the Renaissance, through its unparalleled growth in the late Baroque and Classical...
Simon Rushby Teaching Materials
GCSE composing briefs tend to be fairly vague and... brief! In this resource we’ll explore what elements to focus on, how to use the given briefs to your students’ advantage, and how to choose the...
Richard Barnard Teaching Materials
There are several GCSE and A Level specifications that include pop music from the 1990s to the present day. This resource will look at the music of three extremely well-known solo artists of the 21st...
Jane Werry Teaching Materials
As music teachers, we know that music literacy is very important. This resource will look at ways we can increase students’ vocabulary across KS3 and 4, with short, time-efficient tasks that do not...
Dice Wood Teaching Materials
The final part of our Developing Wider Listening resource on jazz focuses on what happened in jazz after the Second World War. We'll look at the new styles that emerged and consider how jazz ‘coped’...
Simon Rushby Teaching Materials
In the first of this three-part Developing Wider Listening resource on jazz we looked at the origins of the genre, from its roots in the work songs and spirituals associated with slavery in America in...
Simon Rushby Teaching Materials
OCR has three works by Berg, Webern and Schoenberg among its suggested repertoire for AoS6, Innovations in Music 1900 to the present day. In this resource, we’ll look into those pieces and put them in...
David Kettle Teaching Materials
Last month we looked at the first two of the four pieces of music suggested by Pearson Edexcel for wider listening as part of Area of Study (AoS) 3, Music for Stage and Screen. In this month’s...
Simon Rushby Teaching Materials
In the lead up to Christmas, there are a lot of pulls on a music department. Having back-up resources that require limited effort from teachers and yet create rich learning activities with...
Dice Wood Teaching Materials
Low-stakes testing is considered a good tool in our repertoire, allowing us to understand what progress students have made and what needs consolidation before moving on. Exploring content when it’s...
Dice Wood Teaching Materials
Over the past two years, our on-going Developing Wider Listening series has provided resources covering genres and styles from Baroque times to the present day, including several that are specifically...
Simon Rushby Teaching Materials
In this resource, I don’t intend to replicate the content of any of the excellent resources available on the WJEC website. Instead, the resource will suggest ways into tackling the song through...
Jane Werry Teaching Materials