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SubscribeOnline 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.
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...
WJEC AoS F: Impressionism
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KS 5
The resource provides an analysis of the three set works in WJEC’s AoS F, List A, Strand 1: Impressionism.
Developing wider listening: pop music of the 1990s
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KS 4 KS 5 Secondary education
The last five resources in the Developing Wider Listening series – which has now been running for over two years – have taken us on a journey through a huge diversity of popular musical styles, which...
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