A previous Music Teacher resource (January 2017) gives a comprehensive overview of what’s required. As well as including essential information, this resource will suggest strategies for approaching...
There was a time when many professional brass players would have been multi-instrumentalists, but these days we tend to have only one main instrument that we study to a professional level. Any...
Whatever our motivation for setting our students off with a songwriting task, there’s always a danger that with familiarity comes an assumption that it’s something they’ll be able to ‘just go off and...
In the lead up to Christmas, there are a lot of pulls on a music department. Having back-up resources that require limited effort from teachers and yet create rich learning activities with...
How is the Covid-19 pandemic still impacting school music today? Dr Anthony Anderson, associate professor in music education at Birmingham City University, reflects on research exploring the lasting...
A major part of the argument for using imagery lies in understanding what’s unique for singers compared to instrumentalists: our instrument is hidden. Even demonstration is fraught with potential...
Ask any non–teacher to imagine life in your shoes, and the same things are always mentioned. The stereotypes of teaching. Inevitably, these fall into two categories – the perks of being a teacher and...
This prescribed work should be studied and contextualised within a number of other works in this Area of Study. Studying other symphonies by Haydn, as well as some by Mozart and Beethoven, will be...
Haydn's ‘Surprise’ Symphony is one of the International Baccalaureate's prescribed works from 2020 and will feature in the listening paper. Students will have to answer questions about the symphony in...
