The moment that you need to set cover is never the right moment to have a good think about creating good cover lessons. In a worst-case scenario, you’ll be sick or completely incapacitated, and even...
Jane Werry Teaching Materials
Alongside the prescribed work in OCR’s Area of Study 1 (Instrumental Music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven), it’s essential that students familiarise themselves with wider listening from this period.
Hanh Doan Teaching Materials
The first question with warm-ups is: why should my students warm up? The simple answer is that it will make them better musicians.
Paul White Teaching Materials
This resource will focus entirely on Debussy’s Nuages, to help students prepare for the component 3 written exam. There’s more detail on the kinds of questions that can be asked, as well as a sample...
Simon Rushby Teaching Materials
This resource will take you through a range of techniques and approaches aimed at developing students’ understanding and application of textural devices. Its focus is KS3 and KS4, but the early stages...
Liz Dunbar 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
In this resource I’ll delve deeper into the development process, looking in more detail at techniques and suggestions to create sophisticated musical progression in composition from a starting idea.
Richard Barnard Teaching Materials
To forge a career in music, you have to possess an excellent internal metronome: you need to have developed an ability to feel the pulse of a piece of music, and to subconsciously count in your head...
Richard Steggall Teaching Materials
In part one of this two-part Key Stage 3 toolkit (Music Teacher, December 2022) I considered a range of approaches and ideas for KS3, including curriculum and extra-curricular activities. We’ll...
James Manwaring Teaching Materials
For AoS4 in its GCSE specification, AQA has gathered together four important and very contrasting British composers from the 20th and 21st centuries: Malcolm Arnold, Benjamin Britten, Peter Maxwell...
David Kettle 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
I’ve attended many training sessions and professional development courses where I’ve been given a lot of contradictory advice about teaching beginners.
Edward Maxwell Teaching Materials