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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 AoS1: Vaughan Williams's On Wenlock Edge
Secondary education KS 5 Archive
On Wenlock Edge is a song cycle by Ralph Vaughan Williams that sets some of AE Housman's poems from his collection A Shropshire Lad. Published in 1896, the 63 poems in A Shropshire Lad reflect a...
OCR AoS1: Beethoven's Eroica Symphony, first movement
Secondary education KS 5 Archive
The first movement of the Eroica is of epic length, built on a nexus of closely related themes, with rebellious touches that merit inspection in every paragraph. This resource is about how to navigate...
AQA AoS6: Contemporary traditional music
Secondary education KS 5 Archive
In this resource we will look at music by the artists and composers prescribed by AQA in Area of Study 6: Contemporary Traditional Music. The focus will be on providing background on these artists and...
Edexcel AoS5: Anoushka Shankar's Breathing Under Water
Secondary education KS 5 Archive
Sitar player and composer Anoushka Shankar's fifth album, Breathing Under Water, was recorded in numerous locations over the course of ten months, and released in August 2007.
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...
Edexcel A level AoS4: Revolver by the Beatles
Secondary education Archive KS 5
The Beatles’ seventh album Revolver was released in August 1966. Following Rubber Soul and preceding Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (discussed in its own Music Teacher resource, February 2017),...
Nine Lessons of Christmas
Secondary education KS 3 KS 4 KS 5 Archive
This resource will not only give some Christmas-themed lesson ideas, but also suggest some one-off lessons that you might like to try. It might be that you’re at the end of a scheme of work, or just...
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...
Women composers
Secondary education KS 3 KS 4 KS 5 Archive
In this resource I want to go beyond just raising awareness. I want to help teachers and students get ‘under the bonnet’ by looking at some of the rich and diverse composing approaches and strategies...
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’...