In the first part of this two-part resource (Music Teacher, August 2023) we began to look at the first two of the four pieces of music suggested by Edexcel for wider listening as part of its GCSE Area...
Simon Rushby Teaching MaterialsThe final movement of Brahms’s First Symphony is a 16-minute epic, befitting of a Symphony that took more than 20 years to write. It is chock-full of the kind of structural detail that shows Brahms’s...
Jane Werry Teaching MaterialsI love to improvise. It’s the most inventive, liberating and empowering form of musical self-expression I’ve ever experienced.
Nathaniel Dye Teaching MaterialsEach of Pearson Edexcel’s four areas of study (AoS) for its GCSE Appraising component contains two set works, but the exam paper for this component also requires students to have listened to a wider...
Simon Rushby Teaching MaterialsThe first movement of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 is the prescribed work in OCR’s Area of Study 1 (Instrumental Music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven) for 2024 (and covered in its own Music...
Hanh Doan Teaching MaterialsIt’s crucial for any non-experienced composer to understand specific steps to navigate their way to a finished composition.
Richard Barnard Teaching MaterialsIn the first of this three-part resource on recording music in schools, we looked at options for setting up a studio (Music Teacher, April 2023). In this second resource, we’ll move on to the...
Paul White Teaching MaterialsBéla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály met as young men in 1905 in Budapest, and formed a lifelong friendship. They shared a passionate interest in the folk music of Hungary and wanted to incorporate it into...
Richard Barnard Teaching MaterialsIt’s no overstatement to say that the biggest influence on 20th-century popular music is probably the blues.
Simon Rushby Teaching MaterialsEvery music department is different, in terms of staffing, rooms, resources and budgets.
James Manwaring Teaching MaterialsThe resource provides an analysis of the three set works in WJEC’s AoS F, List A, Strand 1: Impressionism.
Phil Baker Teaching MaterialsThere 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