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Teaching materials are an integral part of a music teacher's practice. Every month Music Teacher publishes downloadable materials for KS3, 4 and 5, offering complete units of work, GCSE and A Level set-work guidance, and practical ideas across all levels for both classroom and peripatetic teachers. All materials are written by experienced teachers and examiners and provide indispensable content for your teaching.
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SubscribeLo-fi hip-hop
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KS 3
This resource attempts to describe a favourite unit of mine: lo-fi hip-hop. We’ll look at the essentials of the subgenre, the potential for musical learning, and a suggested approach to delivering a...
Edexcel AoS1: wider listening, part 2
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KS 4
In the first part of this two-part resource (Music Teacher, August 2023) we began to look at the first two of the four pieces of music suggested by Edexcel for wider listening as part of its GCSE Area...
WJEC AoS E: Brahms Symphony No. 1, fourth movement
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KS 5
The final movement of Brahms’s First Symphony is a 16-minute epic, befitting of a Symphony that took more than 20 years to write. It is chock-full of the kind of structural detail that shows Brahms’s...
Classroom and youth band improvisation
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KS 3
I love to improvise. It’s the most inventive, liberating and empowering form of musical self-expression I’ve ever experienced.
OCR AoS1 Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4: wider listening
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KS 5
The first movement of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 is the prescribed work in OCR’s Area of Study 1 (Instrumental Music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven) for 2024 (and covered in its own Music...
Composing activities at KS3
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KS 3
It’s crucial for any non-experienced composer to understand specific steps to navigate their way to a finished composition.
Sound recording: pre-production
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KS 3 KS 4 KS 5
In the first of this three-part resource on recording music in schools, we looked at options for setting up a studio (Music Teacher, April 2023). In this second resource, we’ll move on to the...
AQA AoS4: orchestral music of Bartók and Kodály
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KS 4
Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály met as young men in 1905 in Budapest, and formed a lifelong friendship. They shared a passionate interest in the folk music of Hungary and wanted to incorporate it into...
Developing wider listening: blues
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KS 4 KS 5
It’s no overstatement to say that the biggest influence on 20th-century popular music is probably the blues.
Making your music room inspiring
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KS 3 KS 4 KS 5
Every music department is different, in terms of staffing, rooms, resources and budgets. There is no one way to do things, and no golden ticket to success. But in this resource, we’ll look at how to...
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