‘It was 20 years ago today…’ sang the Beatles on the opening track of their album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. And it is now actually 50 years ago that they first sang these words. So it's a...
The increased target for next academic year comes after the government met 27% of its target for 2023/24.
When recording, students can face a bewildering range of options, from DAW plugins to speaker positions. Here, producer, performer and teacher Nico Bentley recommends a professional approach from the...
In part two of her series on teaching dictation, Dice Wood, a teacher at Maidstone Grammar School for Girls, turns her attention to pitch
This resource will focus on three iconic pieces from the first half of the 20th century, listed in OCR’s Area of Study 6 (Innovations in music 1900-present day): Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of...
Ahead of London Youth Choir's 10th anniversary gala concert, MT's Phil Croydon meets Rachel Staunton, LYC co-founder and artistic director and 2023 Music & Drama Education Award nominee, to discuss...
The first movement of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 is the prescribed work for OCR’s AoS1 for examination in 2024, and should be studied and contextualised within a number of other works in this...
In the IGCSE listening paper, the Western classical set work is found in Section D and is worth 16 marks (out of a total of 70 marks for the whole paper). In 2022, students will have the opportunity...
Though it developed out of binary form, sonata form is more like ternary form in the way that it presents thematic material, so a review of last month’s resource would be helpful to support students’...
In recent times ‘representation’ has become a key word in the education lexicon. While the concept isn't entirely new, however, its meaning and implementation still evade us, argues Tolu McCarthy
