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SubscribeEdexcel A level AoS3: Music for film, part 2
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
Identifying and presenting eras of classical music
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Secondary education KS 3 KS 4 KS 5 Archive
This resource is more about the ‘how’ than the ‘what’. How do you present the differences and evolution in styles in a way that works for new, young listeners, so that they can pick them apart with...
OCR AoS3 Rhythms of the World, part 2: Africa, and Central and South America
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Secondary education KS 4 Archive
In this resource, we’ll look at the remaining styles and traditions included in the area of study: African drumming; Calypso from Trinidad and Tobago; Brazilian samba. Once again, this resource...
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