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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SubscribeWJEC AoS F: Impressionism
KS 5
The resource provides an analysis of the three set works in WJEC’s AoS F, List A, Strand 1: Impressionism.
Developing wider listening: pop music of the 1990s
KS 4 KS 5 Secondary education
The last five resources in the Developing Wider Listening series – which has now been running for over two years – have taken us on a journey through a huge diversity of popular musical styles, which...
Eduqas AoS4: Toto’s ‘Africa’
KS 4 Secondary education
There are already many resources available for this set work, both from Eduqas and from the internet more widely. This resource won’t duplicate their content. Instead, we’ll look at ideas for...
Eduqas A level AoS F: Thomas Adès’s Asyla
KS 5
Contemporary ‘classical’ music is an essential element of any music course, at any level. If we are to create lifelong learners who take a passion for music into their adult lives, it’s imperative...
Developing wider listening: pop music of the 1980s, part two
KS 4 KS 5
The pop scene in the 1980s was a hugely diverse, technology-driven hotbed of high fashion, music videos and ultra-fast stylistic changes. In part one of this resource (Music Teacher, February 2023) we...
Sound recording: setting up a studio
KS 3 KS 4 KS 5
This is the first in a short series of resources looking at the different aspects of sound recording in schools.
Eduqas A level AoS E: Debussy’s Nuages
KS 5
This resource will focus entirely on Debussy’s Nuages, to help students prepare for the component 3 written exam. There’s more detail on the kinds of questions that can be asked, as well as a sample...
OCR A level AoS1 Mozart Quintet, K452: wider listening
KS 5
Alongside the prescribed work in OCR’s Area of Study 1 (Instrumental Music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven), it’s essential that students familiarise themselves with wider listening from this period.
Developing wider listening: pop music of the 1980s, part one
KS 5 KS 4
By the end of the 1970s, pop music was a vastly commercial business, and its exponents often enjoyed immense riches and luxurious lifestyles, paid for by healthy record sales, airplay on radio or TV,...
Developing a composition
KS 4 KS 5
In this resource I’ll delve deeper into the development process, looking in more detail at techniques and suggestions to create sophisticated musical progression in composition from a starting idea.