This resource will explore a number of approaches to teaching contemporary classical music at KS3. It will attempt to curate some of the extensive literature and resources, available both online and...
David Guinane KS 3
Understanding the background and context to music they play or listen to is an incredibly useful skill for all music students. This series aims to broaden that knowledge of musical style across the...
Simon Rushby KS 4
For some musicians, instrumental teaching in schools is a full-time vocation. For others, it provides a welcome element of relative stability in an otherwise volatile and unpredictable world of...
Edward Maxwell VMT
As pupils move through school and beyond, their progress on a musical instrument is rarely smooth. A common – and serious – stumbling block for many is performance anxiety. This can emerge at any...
Richard Steggall VMT
The previous stop on our World Tour series was the Middle East (Music Teacher, March 2021), and for
our fifth resource of the series we cross the Red Sea and head west to explore some of the...
This resource explores the topic of teaching adult students. For the purposes of this resource, I’ll define
adult learners as those who are not learning in a formal educational context, ie school,...
Zoltán Kodály’s slogan was ‘Let music belong to everyone!’ And that’s a sentiment very much on display
in the suite taken from his popular light opera Háry János. AQA have produced a detailed...
Following last month’s resource on BandLab (Music Teacher, June 2021), this month we turn to Soundtrap. Soundtrap and BandLab are both digital audio workstations (or DAWs) based in the cloud. They are...
James Manwaring KS 3
The Romantic period, which lasted for most of the 19th century and left a strong legacy in the 20th and beyond, was a time of great change in all art forms. In this resource, which follows on from...
Simon Rushby KS 4
This prescribed work should be studied and contextualised within a number of other works in this Area of Study. Studying other symphonies by Haydn, as well as some by Mozart and Beethoven, will be...
Hanh Doan KS 5
This is a practical guide for teaching beginner brass, explaining some basic principles in a user-friendly, jargon-free way. There are books available that explain the physics and physiology of brass...
Edward Maxwell VMT
In this resource we will look at the context and musical language of three songs from Graceland, which have been prescribed by AQA for study for the GCSE exam taken in 2022 and beyond as part of Area...
Simon Rushby KS 4