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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SubscribeComposing to a brief
Secondary education KS 4
All the GCSE boards stipulate that one of the two submitted compositions must be composed to a brief set by the board. The good thing about this is that choosing from a range of options is almost...
Edexcel A level AoS3: Music for film, part 2
Secondary education KS 5 Archive
In the previous resource on Edexcel's film music Area of Study (Music Teacher, November 2017), we looked in detail at music from the film Psycho. In this second resource, we're going to consider the...
OCR AoS5: Programme music, 1820‑1910
Secondary education Archive KS 5
For each of the main pieces covered by this resource, there will be information about its context, background and programme (story). Details regarding each of the musical areas likely to come up in...
AQA GCSE AoS1: Haydn’s Symphony No. 101 in D, Clock
Secondary education KS 4 Archive
This resource takes students into the 18th-century world of a jobbing Kapellmeister and his hectic life in an illustrious Austro-Hungarian court. It takes a deeper look at why Haydn ended up as ‘Papa’...
Edexcel A level AoS3: Music for film, part 1
Secondary education KS 5 Archive
This resource will begin to unpack film music and also consider ways in which students can approach the study of film music. I will touch on techniques for studying the set works, approaches to wider...
Edexcel AoS 1: Mozart’s The Magic Flute
Secondary education KS 5 Archive
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born and raised in Salzburg, where he and his father, Leopold Mozart, were on the Prince Archbishop of Salzburg’s music staff. On discovering and nurturing his children’s...
Identifying and presenting eras of classical music
Secondary education KS 3 KS 4 KS 5 Archive
This resource is more about the ‘how’ than the ‘what’. How do you present the differences and evolution in styles in a way that works for new, young listeners, so that they can pick them apart with...
OCR AoS3 Rhythms of the World, part 1: the Indian Subcontinent, the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East
Secondary education KS 4 Archive
This resource covers around half of the styles specified in the OCR AoS, and contains required knowledge as well as details of musical activities that will deepen students’ understanding of the...
Edexcel GCSE AoS4: Fusions
Secondary education KS 4 Archive
With Year 10 students, teachers are now nearly halfway through teaching the new GCSE music courses, and here I provide some support for Area of Study 4 of the Edexcel specification, which is simply...
AQA GCSE AoS4: Copland’s Rodeo
Secondary education KS 4 Archive
It’s quite a soft touch to use Copland’s Rodeo as an example of AoS4’s Western classical tradition since 1910 in the new AQA GCSE specification. This resource is about providing context for Rodeo’s...