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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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SubscribeThe story of the symphony, part 1
Secondary education KS 4 KS 5 Archive
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,...
Edexcel AoS6 New directions: John Cage
Secondary education KS 5 Archive
What is music? What is composition? What is a ‘new direction’ in music? Who is John Cage? These are the topics I'll cover in this resource on John Cage's Three Dances for two prepared pianos, one of...
Computer gaming music: composition
Secondary education KS 4 Archive
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...
Graphic scores
Secondary education KS 3 KS 4 Archive
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...
A Christmas miscellany
Secondary education KS 3 KS 4 KS 5 Archive
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...
Christmas around the world
Secondary education KS 3 KS 4 Archive
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...
AQA AoS2: Computer gaming music
Secondary education KS 4 Archive
This resource looks at AQA's Area of Study 2, specifically computer gaming music since 1990. It will help with the study of computer gaming music, but will also consider some of the ways in which we...
Getting the most out of your rehearsals
Secondary education KS 3 KS 4 KS 5 Archive
From time to time, our rehearsals can have a little too much of the ‘harrowing’, or even of the ‘hearse’ to them. This resource is about revitalising our approach within a school context. It looks at...
AQA AoS1: The operas of Mozart
Secondary education KS 5 Archive
This resource aims to provide resources and strategies for how to approach the area of study with your classes. These will include ideas for where to start with tackling the context of Classical...
AQA AoS3: Music for Media part 2 – Michael Giacchino and Nobuo Uematsu
Secondary education KS 5 Archive
In the first part of this resource (Music Teacher, August 2018) we looked at music by three of the five composers named by AQA in Area of Study 3: Music for Media – Bernard Herrmann, Hans Zimmer and...
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