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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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SubscribeOrchestration at A level
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Secondary education KS 5
Rimsky-Korsakov, a Romantic Russian composer and inspirational orchestrator, said that ‘to orchestrate is to create; it cannot be taught’. Let’s hope he was wrong, at least on that last point.
OCR A level AoS1 Beethoven Serioso Quartet
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Secondary education KS 5
The third and fourth movements of Beethoven's String Quartet in F minor, Op. 95, Serioso, form the 2021 prescribed work for OCR A level. This work should be studied and contextualised within a number...
Using Sibelius at KS4
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Secondary education KS 4
Sibelius is a valuable tool for music teachers: not only can we use it for composition, but it also provides a useful way to bring theory to life. In this resource I will consider how you might use...
Christmas projects for in-school and remote work
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Secondary education KS 3 KS 4 KS 5
This resource is a selection box of ideas that you can choose from and adapt to suit your own situation. Listening, researching, composing and tech are all included and given a Christmas slant that...
World tour: China
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Secondary education KS 3
In the January and September 2020 issues of Music Teacher, the first two in our KS3 World tour series of resources explored the music of the Caribbean and Latin America. This month we move to Asia and...
Developing wider listening: the Baroque period
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Secondary education KS 3 KS 4 KS 5
This is the first in a series of resources to help students develop their understanding and experience of music from the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods, and from the 20th and 21st centuries.
Dealing with Covid uncertainty
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Secondary education KS 3 KS 4 KS 5
Approaching Covid-19 and the year ahead successfully will come down to thinking and teaching outside the box. This article looks at how we might face those uncertainties, considering some of the...
Black classical composers
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Secondary education KS 3 KS 4 KS 5
This resource has been inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement and the stimulus of recent events for cultural discussion in the classroom. Black composers have been notoriously overlooked in the...
From improvisation to composition
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Extra-curricular music VMT
This resource covers the basics of teaching improvisation, and the process of moving fluidly from scales to improvisation and from improvisation to composition, examining how these three elements...
World tour: Latin America
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Secondary education KS 3
These resources provide background information and teaching ideas for Key Stage 3 class music lessons, with the aim of expanding students' knowledge and interest in music from other parts of the...
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