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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 AoS 2 Barbra Streisand: Four songs from Color Me Barbra
KS 5
These four songs from Barbra Streisand’s 1966 album Color Me Barbra are the prescribed music for OCR’s Area of Study 2: Popular song. They need to be studied in the context of other examples of music...
Ableton
KS 3 KS 4 KS 5
This resource introduces the basic functions of Ableton, enough so that you’ll be able to make music with your class. We’ll introduce the software and provide classroom projects that can be used in...
Getting the most from Focus on Sound
KS 3 KS 4 KS 5
Focus on Sound Pro is a piece of cloud-based software from Music First. This resource looks at features of the software, and explores how you can use it in your teaching across Key Stages 3, 4 and 5.
Edexcel AoS4: Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love
KS 5
English singer-songwriter Kate Bush released Hounds of Love, her fifth studio album, in September 1985. It received immediate acclaim from critics and record-buyers alike, and was soon being hailed as...
Little Shop of Horrors
KS 4
In this resource, we’ll look at the history and context of the show and the musical characteristics of the three songs. I don’t intend to go into the depth of analytical detail that can already be...
AQA AoS1: the piano music of Chopin and Schumann
KS 4
Chopin and Schumann are Romantic composers who wrote many piano pieces in the first half of the 19th century. The AQA specification suggests that students study Chopin’s Preludes (including the...
Developing wider listening – the 20th century: part two
KS 4 KS 5
In part one of this resource (Music Teacher, September 2021), we began to see how music, having reached something of a stylistic crossroads at the end of the Romantic period, took off in a multitude...
Developing wider listening – the 20th century: part one
KS 4 KS 5
Understanding the background and context to music they play or listen to is an incredibly useful skill for all music students. This series aims to broaden that knowledge of musical style across the...
AQA AoS4: Kodály’s Háry János
KS 4
Zoltán Kodály’s slogan was ‘Let music belong to everyone!’ And that’s a sentiment very much on display in the suite taken from his popular light opera Háry János. AQA have produced a detailed...
Developing wider listening: the Romantic period
KS 4 KS 5
The Romantic period, which lasted for most of the 19th century and left a strong legacy in the 20th and beyond, was a time of great change in all art forms. In this resource, which follows on from...
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