Wales’ first National Plan for Music Education has been published and the government has committed to increasing music education funding from £1.5m per year to £4.5m per year for the next three years.
Take a look at each grade of the new piano syllabus from ABRSM with Karen Marshall, including pieces from J.S.Bach, Jan Freidlin and Christopher Norton among many others.
What's a collective noun for a group of teachers? It could be ‘choir’. Maggie Hamilton meets the founders of the National Teachers' Choir, which brings together educators from all walks of life
Having investigated what instrumental exam boards are doing to decolonise, Roger Wilson from Black Lives in Music turns his attention to the awarding bodies for GCSE and A Level Music.
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...
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),...
This is a practical guide for teaching beginner brass. There are books available that explain the physics and physiology of brass playing, but it’s usually helpful to explain complex principles in...
In the first of an occasional series in which students share their thoughts and experiences, we hear from Tara Bhamre, a Year 12 student at Latymer Upper School in London, whose self-led music...
Courtney Pine's album Back in the Day was released in 2000, and is one of the set works that both AS and A Level students have to study as part of Edexcel's Area of Study 4: Popular Music and Jazz.
