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Downloadable resources for music teachers
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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SubscribeSoul music
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Secondary education KS 3 KS 4 KS 5
In this resource, we look at – or, rather, listen to – the musical crossovers between soul and rock/pop music, consider the importance of backing vocals in soul music, and how instruments are used in...
Using knowledge organisers
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Secondary education KS 3 KS 4 KS 5 Archive
This resource will give you guidance on knowledge organiser content and layout, and tips on how to use them, including training your students on how to use them for independent study. You will see...
Getting started with Cubase Elements 10: part one
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Secondary education KS 3 Archive KS 4
This resource is designed to provide an introduction to Cubase Elements. Cubase software has various levels, and this is the entry-level version. It's an affordable piece of software for most schools,...
AQA AoS1: The Requiem of the late-Romantic period
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Secondary education KS 4 Archive
This resource will give a brief overview of the context of the late-Romantic Requiem, followed by detailed analysis of some extracts from three key works.
Active listening
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Secondary education KS 3 KS 4 KS 5 Archive
This resource translates the wisdom on active listening from its original therapeutic setting to a musical one, asking how processes in the first might be applied to the second. It then surveys...
Activities for the summer holidays
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Secondary education KS 3 KS 4 KS 5 Archive
This resource is a collection of ideas for holiday activities for students at KS3, 4 and 5. Some of these are based on the Listings Resource that can be found in the second half of the article. This...
Working with visiting music teachers
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Secondary education KS 3 KS 4 KS 5 Archive
The place of peripatetic music staff (or visiting music teachers, as they're now more commonly known) is a notoriously grey area for schools and heads of music. Who is responsible for them? Are they...
OCR A level AoS5: Programme music
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Secondary education KS 5 Archive
Teaching programme music should be the fun bit. It's where music is at its most descriptive and vivid, with an obvious narrative that offers an ideal launch point into the exploration of so many core...
OCR AoS1: Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23
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Secondary education KS 5 Archive
The aim of this resource is to cover both the usual areas required for examination, as well as offering some more context that might provoke wider exploration beyond the prescribed work and enhance...
Maintaining classroom instruments
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Secondary education KS 3 KS 4 KS 5 Archive
Music departments tend to be full of ‘stuff’ – chances are, the more music there is happening in the school, the more equipment there is. Looking after all of this equipment is likely to fall to...
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