As we await publication of the refreshed National Plan for Music Education, Jimmy Rotheram gathers a range of views on what it should contain.
This resource aims to provide resources and strategies for how to approach the Area of Study with your classes. These will include ideas for where to start with tackling the context of the Baroque...
Philharmonia Fantastique is a new work that takes the ‘guide to the orchestra’ genre to a whole new level. Composer and DJ Mason Bates speaks to Harriet Richards about the creative team's...
This resource will outline how to use composing tasks to create a vivid, dramatic version of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol with a KS3 group. The tasks will focus on moments and motifs from the story and...
Michael Pearce looks at Dan Maske's exploration of the harmonic learning aid
Gypsy jazz, best exemplified by the music of Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli, has provided a stimulating and challenging environment for guitarists (and many other musicians) in my school....
Pianist, teacher and workshop leader Charlotte Way describes how a whole-brain approach may foster creative thinking in piano lessons and practice.
Dale Wills takes a first look at the DAW's latest (and biggest) update.
This month, 17-year-old Noah Bradley considers Liszt's predilection for expression over technical pointers in his piano teaching.
