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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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Revising for GCSE music exams

Secondary education KS 4 Archive

Author: Simon Rushby

This resource is intended to provide activities and ideas for students that will help them to revise effectively for the summer GCSE music exam, and it follows a resource on general strategies for...

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The story of the symphony, part 3: from Mahler to the moderns

Secondary education KS 4 KS 5 Archive

Author: Jonathan James

In part two to this three-part resource (Music Teacher, March 2019, with part one February 2019), we saw how Romantic composers of all creative persuasions, whether nationalist or individualist, took...

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The story of the symphony, part 2: Beethoven and his legacy

Secondary education KS 4 KS 5 Archive

Author: Jonathan James

In the second of this three-part resource (for part one, see Music Teacher, February 2019), we will be joining the story of the symphony at its heyday in the 19th century, where the form expanded and...

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Making revision effective and manageable

Secondary education KS 4 KS 5 Archive

Author: Simon Rushby

Revision can be a word with largely negative connotations. For teachers, it can mean producing ‘packs’ and summary resources, going back over old ground with students, and finding innovative ways to...

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Mentoring a trainee or newly qualified teacher

Secondary education KS 3 KS 4 KS 5 Archive

Author: Jane Werry

Mentoring a trainee music teacher or newly qualified teacher can be hard work and time-consuming. But it is also incredibly rewarding, and is guaranteed to make you reflect on your own practice. With...

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The story of the symphony, part 1

Secondary education KS 4 KS 5 Archive

Author: Jonathan James

This is the first in a three-part resource that uses the development of the symphony as a guide for charting the evolution of large-ensemble instrumental writing in Western classical music. As such,...

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Computer gaming music: composition

Secondary education KS 4 Archive

Author: James Manwaring

Following an earlier resource on gaming music (AQA AoS2: Computer gaming music, Music Teacher, November 2018), here I'm going to consider ways of teaching computer game music using composition. This...

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Graphic scores

Secondary education KS 3 KS 4 Archive

Author: David Ashworth

There are many advantages to exploring graphic notation in the classroom: It's a fact that most of our young students will only have a limited experience of working with and understanding standard...

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A Christmas miscellany

Secondary education KS 3 KS 4 KS 5 Archive

Author: Hanh Doan

Christmas-themed Music Teacher resources have become something of an annual tradition, much like advent calendars or leaving out mince pies for Santa. In previous years, there have been some...

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Christmas around the world

Secondary education KS 3 KS 4 Archive

Author: Anna Gower

It’s that time of year again. The end of a really long term, one often filled with the need for cover work or room changes as concert rehearsals and mock exams take place. But how can you keep classes...

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