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
This resource will look at Key Stage 3, and consider how you can shape what you offer to your students. Advice for curriculum design, extra-curricular provision and long-term planning will be covered,...
James Manwaring Teaching Materials
For the second strand in AoS4 of its GCSE specification, AQA has brought together four influential and very different British composers from the 20th and 21st centuries: Malcolm Arnold, Benjamin...
David Kettle Teaching Materials
If you’re looking for a good jumping-off point for Christmas season creative work and music making with your students, a good choice would be ‘Carol of the Bells’ (‘Shchedryk’).
Richard Barnard Teaching Materials
The first movement of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 is the prescribed work for OCR’s AoS1 for examination in 2024, and should be studied and contextualised within a number of other works in this...
Hanh Doan 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
Composition is one of the crucial components of any music curriculum. Students need to be given the opportunity to compose, and the guidance to succeed. They also need to see how composition links in...
James Manwaring Teaching Materials
This resource will look at listening in the Key Stage 3 classroom, with practical ideas to encourage students to listen.
James Manwaring 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
In this resource, we’ll look at Rhapsody in Blue’s origins, its stylistic influences, its musical features, and its array of chameleon-like, shapeshifting versions.
Jane Werry Teaching Materials