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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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SubscribeOCR AoS5: Conventions of Pop
Secondary education KS 4 Archive
Of all the Areas of Study for the 9-1 OCR GCSE, AoS5 on Conventions of Pop is likely to be the one where students already have at least some familiarity with the music. However, although they may...
Edexcel AS & A level Music AoS4: Courtney Pine's Back in the Day
Secondary education KS 5 AS A2 Archive
Courtney Pine's album Back in the Day was released in 2000, and is one of the set works that both AS and A Level students have to study as part of Edexcel's Area of Study 4: Popular Music and Jazz.
IB SL/HL 2017-19: Kodály's Dances of Galánta
Secondary education KS 5 IB Archive
It's an odd pairing at first glance: Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 (covered in its own Music Teacher resource, February 2016) with Kodály's Dances of Galánta. And yet these prescribed works for...
AQA GCSE AoS2: The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Secondary education KS 4 Archive
‘It was 20 years ago today…’ sang the Beatles on the opening track of their album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. And it is now actually 50 years ago that they first sang these words. So it's a...
OCR AoS6: Innovations of the 20th Century, part 2
Secondary education Archive KS 5
Having covered late-Romantic symphonic styles, Impressionism, Expressionism, atonality and serialism in Part 1 of this resource (Music Teacher, December 2016), we resume our exploration of this vast...
Edexcel AS and A level Music: Appraising - an introduction
Secondary education KS 5 Archive
The new AS and A level qualifications from Edexcel are set up in a very similar structure to the legacy course - which many of us are still teaching to our Year 13 students. We still have three...
Radiohead in the classroom
Secondary education KS 4 Archive
In this resource, we take a closer look at some of the musical devices used by Radiohead and consider ways in which we can use them in teaching and learning in the classroom.
OCR AoS6: Innovations of the 20th Century, part 1
Secondary education KS 5 Archive
This is the first of two Music Teacher resources covering OCR's AoS6. Here, we'll look at Late-Romantic, largescale symphonic works; Impressionism; and Expressionism, atonality and serialism. We'll...
Edexcel A level: Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring
Secondary education KS 5 Archive
This resource focuses initially on the context for Stravinsky's breakthrough, situating it among other musical innovations at the turn of the century. Stravinsky's early career and writing style are...
OCR AoS2: The Concerto Through Time - the Romantic concerto
Secondary education KS 4 Archive
This month we will focus on the Romantic concerto. Specifically, students need to understand how the concerto developed through the 19th century, and how the role and instruments of the orchestra and...
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