Teaching Materials

BBC Ten Pieces Secondary, part two

This resource is the second of two Music Teacher resources (following part one in February 2016) that support the BBC's Ten Pieces initiative, and complements the excellent resources on the BBC Ten...

Secondary education

Crowdsourced GCSE tips

With that spirit in mind, I took to social media and asked music teachers about their top tips for teaching music at GCSE. There was no shortage of responses. What follows is a curation of those tips,...

Secondary education

OCR AS: Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor K466, first movement

This resource is the last in a three–part series to support the teaching of the three new OCR AS Prescribed Orchestral Scores in Unit G353: Introduction to Historical Study in Music, for examination...

Secondary education

BBC Ten Pieces Secondary, part one

The BBC's Ten Pieces initiative aims to foster interest in classical music among schoolchildren, with films to accompany the two sets of pieces (one for primary and one for secondary schools). This...

Secondary education

Teaching technology

In a previous Music Teacher resource (October 2015), we looked at the requirements for a technology performance in GCSE Music. In this resource, we are going to look at specific activities that you...

Secondary education

OCR AS; IB HL/SL: Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F, BWV 1047, movements 2 and 3

This resource, designed to support the new IB set works, is an analysis of the second and third movements of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2. The first movement, together with background information...

Secondary education

Help! I'm stuck on my composition!

Most students find composing hard, and it's fair to say that the old adage of ‘1 per cent inspiration, 99 per cent perspiration’ is about right. When controlled conditions give a time limit for...

Secondary education

BTEC First: The Music Industry (Learning Aim B)

Earlier this year (Music Teacher, October 2015), we looked at Learning Aim A of the BTEC First Music Industry unit. Here, we move the focus from organisations to Learning Aim B, job roles in the music...

Secondary education

OCR AS: La gazza ladra Overture, by Gioacchino Rossini

This resource is the second in a series to support the teaching of the three new OCR AS Prescribed Orchestral Scores in Unit G353: Introduction to Historical Study in Music, for examination in June...

Secondary education