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 Teaching Materials
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 Teaching Materials
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 Teaching Materials
In essence, learning through story is about developing an internal narrative to give music direction and meaning, in order to engage a listener. We are creating a mental journey to keep a young...
Richard Steggall Teaching Materials
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 popular...
Simon Rushby Teaching Materials
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,...
Helen Reid Teaching Materials
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...
Jonathan James Teaching Materials
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 Teaching Materials
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 Teaching Materials
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 Teaching Materials
This is a practical guide for teaching beginner brass. There are books available that explain the physics and physiology of brass playing, but it’s usually helpful to explain complex principles in...
Edward Maxwell Teaching Materials
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 Teaching Materials