In this resource, we’ll look at the remaining styles and traditions included in the area of study: African drumming; Calypso from Trinidad and Tobago; Brazilian samba. Once again, this resource...
David Guinane Secondary education
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born and raised in Salzburg, where he and his father, Leopold Mozart, were on the Prince Archbishop of Salzburg’s music staff. On discovering and nurturing his children’s...
Hanh Doan Secondary education
Students are studying Debussy's Estampes and the other set works in preparation for a summer Edexcel exam paper either at AS or A Level. A previous Music Teacher resource (January 2017) has already...
Simon Rushby Secondary education
Courtney Pine's album Back in the Day was released in 2000, and is one of the set works that both AS and A Level students have to study as part of Edexcel's Area of Study 4: Popular Music and Jazz.
Simon Rushby Secondary education
The first movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8 is the longest and potentially most challenging of all the new Edexcel GCSE set works for teaching from 2016. This resource is about how to open it...
Jonathan James Secondary education
OCR's Film Music Area of Study covers some of the parts of the exam that students tend to struggle with the most. In order to tackle this systematically, we will break it down into three distinct...
Jane Werry Secondary education
The Concerto Through Time is arguably the meatiest, content-wise, of all OCR's new areas of study. It covers the development of the orchestra and changing compositional approaches from the Baroque...
Jane Werry Secondary education
This resource is aimed at learners of around Grade 4 and above on any instrument, voice included, either working alone or together. No prior knowledge of jazz theory is required, nor is any...
Jonathan James Secondary education
Conducting is a constant feature in the lives of almost all music teachers, whether leading an assembly song, guiding a band workshop or rehearsing the school orchestra. The aim of this resource is to...
Jonathan James Secondary education
Here, we consider the many decisions that go into planning a tour, and guide you through the preparations and the trip itself. The aim is to anticipate potential problems and head them off before they...
Jane Werry Secondary education
With the ease of finding song lyrics and chords on websites such as Ultimate Guitar, as well as the plethora of musical YouTube tutorials, giving students the knowhow and confidence they need to use...
Jane Werry Secondary education
This resource is the last in a three–part series to support the teaching of the three new OCR AS Prescribed Orchestral Scores in Unit G353: Introduction to Historical Study in Music, for examination...
Alan Charlton Secondary education