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SubscribeDeveloping wider listening: jazz, part 2
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KS 4 KS 5
In the first of this three-part Developing Wider Listening resource on jazz we looked at the origins of the genre, from its roots in the work songs and spirituals associated with slavery in America in...
OCR AoS6: serialism
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KS 5
OCR has three works by Berg, Webern and Schoenberg among its suggested repertoire for AoS6, Innovations in Music 1900 to the present day. In this resource, we’ll look into those pieces and put them in...
Marketing your music department
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KS 5 KS 4 KS 3
In this resource, we’ll be looking at how you can effectively market your music department. We’ll consider why this is something you should do, and also some of the steps you need to take. We’ll look...
Online escape room games and low-stakes quizzing
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KS 3 KS 4 KS 5
Low-stakes testing is considered a good tool in our repertoire, allowing us to understand what progress students have made and what needs consolidation before moving on. Exploring content when it’s...
Developing wider listening: jazz, part 1
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KS 4 KS 5
Few musical genres developed faster than jazz. Within some 30 years, this loosely termed style rose from African-American folk beginnings to become the most popular music in America. Much of this...
Sound recording: managing a recording session
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KS 3 KS 4 KS 5
Welcome to the final resource in a three-part series covering recording in the classroom (for the previous two resources, see Music Teacher, April 2023 and July 2023). This time, we’ll move on to the...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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