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
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
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 – 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
The main focus of this resource is to examine how notation can both inspire and hinder students in their composing. We’ll concentrate mainly on Western staff notation and its use in various styles,...
Richard Barnard Teaching Materials
This resource, the first of two resources that will look at some of Edexcel’s suggestions for wider listening and ‘other perspectives’, will look in detail at two iconic works of European avant-garde...
David Kettle Teaching Materials
In this resource, we’ll look at three works in Edexcel’s 'suggested pieces of other music' and ‘other perspectives’ lists for its KS5 AoS1 on vocal music: a song by Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, the...
Richard Barnard Teaching Materials
This resource considers a range of strategies for teaching the context and processes of Poulenc's style, before, during and after the teaching of the movement itself.
Jane Werry Teaching Materials