Online Teaching Materials
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.
If you would like to see an example of a Teaching Material, please click here.
SubscribeComposing to a brief
![](/media/215989/mt-2018-97-1-ks4.png?anchor=center&mode=resize&width=210&height=300&quality=50&bgcolor=f5f5f5)
Secondary education KS 4
All the GCSE boards stipulate that one of the two submitted compositions must be composed to a brief set by the board. The good thing about this is that choosing from a range of options is almost...
Edexcel AoS5: Anoushka Shankar's Breathing Under Water
![](/media/215992/mt-2018-97-1-ks5a.png?anchor=center&mode=resize&width=210&height=300&quality=50&bgcolor=f5f5f5)
Secondary education KS 5 Archive
Sitar player and composer Anoushka Shankar's fifth album, Breathing Under Water, was recorded in numerous locations over the course of ten months, and released in August 2007.
Edexcel A level AoS3: Music for film, part 2
![](/media/215991/mt-2018-97-1-ks5.png?anchor=center&mode=resize&width=210&height=300&quality=50&bgcolor=f5f5f5)
Secondary education KS 5 Archive
In the previous resource on Edexcel's film music Area of Study (Music Teacher, November 2017), we looked in detail at music from the film Psycho. In this second resource, we're going to consider the...
Edexcel A level AoS4: Revolver by the Beatles
![](/media/215570/mt-2017-96-12-ks5.png?anchor=center&mode=resize&width=210&height=300&quality=50&bgcolor=f5f5f5)
Secondary education Archive KS 5
The Beatles’ seventh album Revolver was released in August 1966. Following Rubber Soul and preceding Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (discussed in its own Music Teacher resource, February 2017),...
Nine Lessons of Christmas
![](/media/215571/mt-2017-96-12-ks3-4-5.png?anchor=center&mode=resize&width=210&height=300&quality=50&bgcolor=f5f5f5)
Secondary education KS 3 KS 4 KS 5 Archive
This resource will not only give some Christmas-themed lesson ideas, but also suggest some one-off lessons that you might like to try. It might be that you’re at the end of a scheme of work, or just...
OCR AoS5: Programme music, 1820‑1910
![](/media/215569/mt-2017-96-12-ks5a.png?anchor=center&mode=resize&width=210&height=300&quality=50&bgcolor=f5f5f5)
Secondary education Archive KS 5
For each of the main pieces covered by this resource, there will be information about its context, background and programme (story). Details regarding each of the musical areas likely to come up in...
Women composers
![](/media/215574/mt-2017-96-11-ks3-4-5.png?anchor=center&mode=resize&width=210&height=300&quality=50&bgcolor=f5f5f5)
Secondary education KS 3 KS 4 KS 5 Archive
In this resource I want to go beyond just raising awareness. I want to help teachers and students get ‘under the bonnet’ by looking at some of the rich and diverse composing approaches and strategies...
AQA GCSE AoS1: Haydn’s Symphony No. 101 in D, Clock
![](/media/215573/mt-2017-96-11-ks4.png?anchor=center&mode=resize&width=210&height=300&quality=50&bgcolor=f5f5f5)
Secondary education KS 4 Archive
This resource takes students into the 18th-century world of a jobbing Kapellmeister and his hectic life in an illustrious Austro-Hungarian court. It takes a deeper look at why Haydn ended up as ‘Papa’...
Edexcel A level AoS3: Music for film, part 1
![](/media/215572/mt-2017-96-11-ks5.png?anchor=center&mode=resize&width=210&height=300&quality=50&bgcolor=f5f5f5)
Secondary education KS 5 Archive
This resource will begin to unpack film music and also consider ways in which students can approach the study of film music. I will touch on techniques for studying the set works, approaches to wider...
Edexcel AoS 1: Mozart’s The Magic Flute
![](/media/215575/mt-2017-96-10-ks5.png?anchor=center&mode=resize&width=210&height=300&quality=50&bgcolor=f5f5f5)
Secondary education KS 5 Archive
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born and raised in Salzburg, where he and his father, Leopold Mozart, were on the Prince Archbishop of Salzburg’s music staff. On discovering and nurturing his children’s...
Current filters
-
Remove All [ X ]Curriculum,Curriculum,Ks 3ExaminationsExam PrepArchiveExaminations,Ks 5,Ks 5
Filter by
Tags
- 115 KS 3
- 158 KS 4
- 162 KS 5
- 203 Secondary education