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
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
This resource attempts to describe a favourite unit of mine: lo-fi hip-hop. We’ll look at the essentials of the subgenre, the potential for musical learning, and a suggested approach to delivering a...
David Guinane Teaching Materials
There are already many resources available for this set work, both from Eduqas and from the internet more widely. This resource won’t duplicate their content. Instead, we’ll look at ideas for...
Jane Werry Teaching Materials
The last five resources in the Developing Wider Listening series – which has now been running for over two years – have taken us on a journey through a huge diversity of popular musical styles, which...
Simon Rushby Teaching Materials
The pop scene in the 1980s was a hugely diverse, technology-driven hotbed of high fashion, music videos and ultra-fast stylistic changes. In part one of this resource (Music Teacher, February 2023) we...
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
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
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
Over the years, I’ve picked up a lot of knowledge about the workings of a music department and what are the best, most effective and value-for-money ways to keep it running. For the sake of space,...
Paul White Teaching Materials
These four songs from Barbra Streisand’s 1966 album Color Me Barbra are the prescribed music for OCR’s Area of Study 2: Popular song. They need to be studied in the context of other examples of music...
Simon Rushby Teaching Materials