Online Teaching Materials
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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SubscribeEdexcel 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...
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...
Edexcel GCSE: Beethoven's Pathétique Sonata
Secondary education KS 4 Archive
The first movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8 is the longest and potentially most challenging of all the new Edexcel GCSE set works for teaching from 2016. This resource is about how to open it...
OCR AoS4: Film Music
Secondary education KS 4 Archive
OCR's Film Music Area of Study covers some of the parts of the exam that students tend to struggle with the most. In order to tackle this systematically, we will break it down into three distinct...
Edexcel GCSE music: AoS2 - Vocal Music
Secondary education KS 4 Archive
This article provides some teaching ideas and suggestions for Area of Study 2 of the Appraising component of the new Edexcel GCSE music course, which we will be starting with our Year 10s this term.
AQA GCSE Area of Study 3: Traditional music - wider listening
Secondary education KS 4 Archive
‘Wider listening’ is such a strange term. Wider than what? This resource will give you eight specific teaching ideas (two for each topic in Area of Study 3) that you can use to help students prepare...
Planning for better music technology provision
Secondary education KS 3 KS 4 Archive
For this resource, I have revisited that publication and completely updated the recommendations I was making then - in the hope of providing some up-to-date guidance for teachers that adequately...
OCR AoS2: The concerto through time
Secondary education KS 4 Archive
The Concerto Through Time is arguably the meatiest, content-wise, of all OCR's new areas of study. It covers the development of the orchestra and changing compositional approaches from the Baroque...