This is the second in a series of resources to help students develop their understanding and experience of music from the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods, and from the 20th and 21st centuries....
Simon Rushby Teaching Materials
This will act as a summary introduction to the subject area, to whet the appetite and start placing the main styles in their contexts, with suggested listening and a playlist. Following the examples,...
Jonathan James Teaching Materials
In part 2 of this two-part resource, I will look at further development of reading skills and musicianship, learning pieces with understanding, and amassing a bank of repertoire, rather than just...
Edward Maxwell Teaching Materials
During the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdowns in the UK, I have led several interactive online composition projects. This resource shares practical advice gained from this experience, examining the...
Richard Barnard Teaching Materials
This resource aims to give you some ideas for teaching great music lessons, whether remotely, through a ‘blended’ approach, or even back in the classroom – whenever that might be.
Jane Werry Teaching Materials
This is the fourth stop in our World Tour series, which began over a year ago and has so far visited the Caribbean, Latin America and China. This month we explore some of the vast and diverse...
Simon Rushby Teaching Materials
This resource looks closely at rhythm from both ends – the aural, non-notated, knowledge-of-music end, and the notation-based, knowledge-about-music end. Ideas for unpicking rhythm including learning...
Jane Werry Teaching Materials
Rimsky-Korsakov, a Romantic Russian composer and inspirational orchestrator, said that ‘to orchestrate is to create; it cannot be taught’. Let’s hope he was wrong, at least on that last point.
Jonathan James Teaching Materials
There’s no denying the fact that there are a lot of guitarists who can’t read music. (I’d like to stress that this is focused more on electric or acoustic guitarists, rather than ones who are...
Paul White Teaching Materials
This resource follows on directly from part one (Music Teacher, September 2020), which covered melody, articulation, instruments and harmony/tonality. This resource will cover dynamics, structure,...
Jane Werry Teaching Materials
The third and fourth movements of Beethoven's String Quartet in F minor, Op. 95, Serioso, form the 2021 prescribed work for OCR A level. This work should be studied and contextualised within a number...
Hanh Doan Teaching Materials
In this resource, I’ll be looking at how we can reflect on our approach to teaching and stimulate ourselves to do better. However experienced we are, and however good a teacher we might think we are,...
Edward Maxwell Teaching Materials