This is a shop in which you can be sure of purchasing quality music resources. You truly do get what you pay for, and my prices reflect the standard that you can expect when you purchase one of my resources. Rainy Night Music is a name you can trust, and I invite you to contact me directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com if you have any questions, requests or suggestions. Thank you for your interest, and I look forward to welcoming you as a colleague-customer. Follow me on Twitter for lots more!
This is a shop in which you can be sure of purchasing quality music resources. You truly do get what you pay for, and my prices reflect the standard that you can expect when you purchase one of my resources. Rainy Night Music is a name you can trust, and I invite you to contact me directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com if you have any questions, requests or suggestions. Thank you for your interest, and I look forward to welcoming you as a colleague-customer. Follow me on Twitter for lots more!
This is an Introduction to 4-part harmony. It is a full and comprehensive topic that would fit nicely into 3 x 1-hour lessons, but could be squeezed into 2 x 1-hour lessons with a gifted A-Level Music class if the final task was also set as homework.
The content is based around an introduction to Bach Chorales. There are 4 tasks in total.
Task 1 is: choosing chords to harmonise a melody. This is based on identifying the key , drawing out triads, and matching given melody notes with the triads/ chords, leading to a 4-part arrangement of the chord progression they have chosen, applying the techniques that are introduced throughout.
Task 2 is: Arranging for 4 parts. Students are given a fixed chord progression with which to harmonise the melody from task 1. Meanwhile the PowerPoint will take them through the following: Note Doubling; Consecutive 5ths ; Consecutive 8ves ; Consecutive Unisons ; Chord Spacing ; Six-Way check (SA; ST; SB; AT; AB; TB) to prevent banned consecutives.
Task 3 is: Using passing notes to create momentum. Students will be shown a model answer on the PowerPoint to Task 2, which then becomes the starting point for Task 3. The PowerPoint takes students through passing notes (what they are, what they do, and pitfalls of using too many at once) and then students are to add passing notes to the given arrangement.
Task 4 is: Working in a minor key. Students use the tonic minor to largely transfer their arrangement from the major, but new concepts are introduced for them to think about: melodic augmented 2nds (and using the melodic minor scale to avoid them); Tierce de Picardie cadence (where, how, and why it’s used); the tricky Mediant in minor keys.
From a teaching perspective, you have a full 20-slide Powerpoint making delivery of content easy, MP3 audios of the model answers so students can hear how nice good 4-part writing really sounds, Sibelius 5, 6, 7, and 7.5 templates if you want to use Music ICT to complete the tasks, 4 x PDF worksheets (that you’ll want to hand out one at a time because model answers become the next worksheet!) in case you don’t have/ don’t wish to use Music ICT.
I take great care to ensure my resources are of the highest quality – both in content and in presentation – and I wholeheartedly recommend them to both you and your students. I welcome feedback and enquiries from my colleague-customers the world over, and I can be contacted directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com. I would be delighted to hear from you, and I thank you for considering this resource for your classroom.
This topic focuses on Articulation, which includes volume dynamics. Specific content is as follows: Piano/ Pianissimo/ Mezzo Piano; Forte/ Fortissimo/ Mezzo Forte; Pianoforte/ Fortepiano/ Diminuendo/ Crescendo; Accent/ Marcato/ Sforzando; Portato/ Staccato/ Staccatissimo; Legato/ Tenuto; Rim shot. Students are taken through the information with both an information sheet, and a step-by-step PowerPoint. 4 x written/ notation tasks develop students’ ability to recognise the symbols and abbreviations and to be able to use and interpret them on a score. 10 x listening questions conclude the lesson, in which students’ ability to determine appropriate volume dynamics and changes, and articulation changes can be developed. These listening activities will also develop students’ musical memories – a vital skill for the listening exam. By the end of the lesson students will have a secure knowledge of the topic, and you – the teacher – have more than enough activities to allocate a homework task should you wish to.
All of this comes with a 30-slide animated and beautifully-presented PowerPoint, annotated with detailed teaching guidance notes, to make delivery of the topic smooth and efficient – plus a 4-page student information sheet, 4-page activity sheet, and 4-page detailed answer sheet. With regards to the listening questions, MP3s are provided (and they are always my own compositions), and you may well want to insert the audios into the slide rather than use media player.
I take great pride in my resources, and the time and effort I put into them is immediately clear. I am confident that you will find this topic to be fully and comprehensively resourced in order to meet both your needs and the needs of your students… and it will save you (literally) hours of planning, too. I welcome any questions and feedback, and I can be contacted at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com. Thank you for considering my resources for your classroom.
This bundle includes TEN comprehensive study packs relating to the Set Works on the current AQA A Level Music specification.
The resources are designed for teaching and learning, but also work extremely well as revision tools, closer to the exam. The bundle comprises study packs for the following pieces and movements:
Bach BWV 1041 Concerto (Mvt1)
Bach BWV 1041 Concerto (Mvt2)
Vivaldi Il Gardellino (Mvt1)
Vivaldi Il Gardellino (Mvt2)
Purcell Sonata in D (Mvt1)
Purcell Sonata in D (Mvt2)
Mozart La Vendetta from Figaro
Mozart Non So Piu from Figaro
Notturno by Grieg
Norwegian March by Grieg
To be clear, a Teaching and Learning Work Pack includes the following items:
1 x detailed worksheet
1 x detailed answer sheet, set out in the form of a chunked analysis
10 x versions of the Sibelius Score for the work (Sib 4, 5, 6, 7, 7.5 + the available ‘first’ and ‘student’ versions)
1 x MP3 of the Set Work, produced from the Sibelius score.
I really hope that you will enjoy my resources and find them useful. I pride myself on the quality of the resources that I publish, and I welcome feedback and enquiries from all of my colleague-customers across the world. I can be contacted directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com and I would be delighted to hear from you. Thank you for considering this resource for your classroom.
This resource bundle comprises more than 15 hours of activities across 50 Worksheets, designed for Years 10 and 11. The worksheets are available separately in 5 sets of 10, and they all come complete with a detailed answer book, and 4 sets also contain a detailed teacher guide. These resources can be used for a variety of different purposes, including: homework tasks, tests, revision, whole cover lessons, and distance learning. Furthermore, individual questions from worksheets can be used as starter activities.
Specifically, the contents and topics of the worksheets in this pack are as follows:
10 x worksheets, answer sheets, and a teacher guide on Scales and Modes: identifying major, and harmonic and melodic minor scales using fixed-interval semitone patterns (for both the bass and treble clef); adding accidentals to create major, and harmonic and melodic minor scales (in the bass and treble clef); using key signatures to create associated major, and related harmonic and melodic minor scales (in bass and treble clef notation); identifying Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, and Locrian modes using fixed-interval semitone patterns (again, in both the bass and treble clef); creating modes on different starting notes using knowledge of fixed-interval semitone patterns (on bass and treble staves).
10 x worksheets and answer sheets on General Music Analysis: each worksheet in this pack incorporates a short 8 to 16 bar piano composition, which is an original piece composed by myself – so there is a guarantee that your students will have never seen this music before! There are 20 questions on each piece, covering a wide variety of topics appropriate to the music. Topics include, but are not limited to: rhythmic, harmonic, and melodic devices; metre and tempo; cadence, chord, and interval recognition; foreign terms (up to approximately Grade 5 ABRSM Theory Level); structural features such as repeats and time bars… and there is so much more, too.
10 x worksheets, answer sheets, and a teacher guide on Rhythm and Metre: adding beams in simple and compound metres, focusing particularly on rules regarding crossing the centre of the bar; re-writing 4-bar rhythms using tied notes to correct errors in note grouping and placement in both simple and compound metres; re-writing 4-bar rhythms using the correct rests to correct errors in rest grouping and placement in both simple and compound metres; adding barlines to complex rhythms which include double-dotted notes and rests in both simple and compound time; re-writing short 4-bar rhythms which contain a variety of errors taken from all topics in Worksheets 1 to 8 (beams, tied notes, rests, double-dotted notes and rests).
10 x worksheets, answer sheets, and a teacher guide on Intervals and Melody: identifying and creating major, minor, perfect, augmented, and diminished intervals (for both the bass and treble clef); identifying non-harmony notes such as passing, neighbour, escape, and anticipation notes (in the bass and treble clef); identifying ornament symbols and realisations; creating realisations of ornaments, including, turns, trills, acciaccaturas, appoggiaturas, mordents, and glissandos; identifying melodic shape, including scalic, conjunct, triadic, and disjunct shapes; identifying the scales used to create short melodies, including major, minor, pentatonic, blues, and whole tone scales, then labelling notes with their corresponding scale degrees; creating sequences and inversions to develop melodies.
10 x worksheets, answer sheets, and a teacher guide on Chords and Keys: identifying major, minor, augmented, and diminished chords using fixed-interval semitone patterns (for both the bass and treble clef); identifying primary and secondary chords within a stated key (in the bass and treble clef); identifying diatonic and chromatic chords within and outside of a stated key (in bass and treble clef notation); identifying cadences within keys (again, in both the bass and treble clef); creating, labelling, and identifying chords and chord progressions using Roman Numerals, including root, 1st inversion, and 2nd inversion positions (on bass and treble staves); identifying keys, key relationships, and key signatures; identifying, labelling, and creating 7th chords; identifying modulations and pivot chords in short passages of written music.
As always, I take great care to ensure my resources are of the highest quality – both in content and in presentation – and I wholeheartedly recommend them to both you and your students. I welcome feedback and enquiries from my colleague-customers all over the world, and I can be contacted directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com. I would be delighted to hear from you, and I thank you for considering this resource for your classroom.
This lesson focuses primarily on the Circle of Fifths, and this includes both the major and minor keys up to and including 4 sharps and flats. Students are taken through the information with both an information sheet, and a step-by-step PowerPoint. 14 x written/ notation tasks develop students’ knowledge of how keys are organised. This is not just a lesson in ‘what’ the Circle of 5ths is, students are taught how to create the circle from scratch. This reinforces understanding, and it also incorporates revision of major and minor scales, with a focus on how major scales create accidentals which become key signatures for major and relative minor keys.
Students also discover relationships between keys on the Circle of 5ths as a foundation to appropriate/ most common modulations: Dominant keys to the right/ Subdominant to the left/ Relative Major or Minor inwards or outwards on the rings. There are 10 x listening questions to conclude the lesson, in which students’ ability to distinguish between major and minor tonalities is tested. By the end of the lesson students will have a secure knowledge of the topic, and you – the teacher – will have more than enough scope to set additional activities as homework should you wish to, and suggestions are included in the teacher notes on the PowerPoint.
All of this comes with a 28-slide animated and beautifully-presented PowerPoint, annotated with detailed teaching guidance notes, to make delivery of the lesson smooth and efficient – plus a 4-page student information sheet, 4-page activity sheet and 4-page detailed answers sheet. With regards to the listening questions, MP3s are provided (and they are always my own compositions), and you may well want to insert the audios into the slide rather than use media player.
I really hope that you will enjoy my resources and find them useful. I pride myself on the quality of the resources that I publish, and I welcome feedback and enquiries from all of my colleague-customers across the world. I can be contacted directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com and I would be delighted to hear from you. Thank you for considering this resource for your classroom.
The content in this topic will enable students to do the following: create and identify Major, Minor, and Perfect Intervals, and the tritone, by ear and in written format; understand how these intervals create melodic shapes, which they will learn how to identify. All of this will be invaluable for their listening development, and specifically their ability to perform better in melodic dictation tests. The content is essential to all GCSE Music exam courses, AQA, Edexcel, OCR, and Eduqas, and is useful for both RSL and BTEC courses. It should take about 2 hours to teach.
Specifically, the pack includes the following high-quality materials: an original 6-page text-book style handout, with diagrams and annotations, covering the entire content of the topic; a 6-page worksheet containing written activities relating to the creation and identification of all major, minor, and perfect intervals, and the tritone, and a listening activity relating to the aural recognition of these intervals; 10 x 20-second-long MP3 files for the listening activity (also embedded into the PowerPoint); 1 x 34-slide comprehensive and beautifully animated PowerPoint, with detailed teaching guidance notes for every single slide, making delivery of content an absolute breeze; 5-page answer sheet for the activities. Please note that the handout, activity sheet, and answer sheet are all on the same (17-page) PDF document.
I take great care to ensure my resources are of the highest quality – both in content and in presentation – and I wholeheartedly recommend them to both you and your students. I welcome feedback and enquiries from my colleague-customers all over the world, and I can be contacted directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com. I would be delighted to hear from you, and I thank you for considering this resource for your classroom.
This resource comprises 10 worksheets designed to secure, revise, and test knowledge of bass and treble staff notation. Aimed at Key Stage 3 students, each worksheet should take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete, making them perfect for starter activities or for short tests. Similarly, they can be used in combination to form longer tests (including suitability for GCSE Music course tests); they can even be used to create up to two full 1-hour cover lessons for a supply teacher who may have no music specialist knowledge whatsoever. If you use them for the latter, you needn’t worry about coming back to a huge pile of marking either, because full answers are included in the resource pack, so students can mark and correct their own work on the day!
Specifically, the worksheets incorporate the following types of activity: identifying note pitches on the bass and treble staff; identifying words written out in bass and treble staff notation; writing given words out in bass and treble staff notation; unscrambling words that have been written out in bass and treble staff notation; converting words written out in bass staff notation to treble staff notation, and vice versa. A handy little guide to notation, which can be printed as small cards ahead of the lesson, has also been included so that students can simply work the notes out, even if they’ve never seen staff notation before – so everything has been thought of for your convenience.
As an extra challenge, and for those of you (like me!) who always look to link lessons to developing overall literacy skills, too, why not have the students look up words that they have not yet come across (like ‘efface’ and ‘bade’) in a dictionary, and then a thesaurus to find synonyms and antonyms. I do this with my students and their English teachers are always very grateful!
I take great care to ensure my resources are of the highest quality – both in content and in presentation – and I wholeheartedly recommend them to both you and your students. I welcome feedback and enquiries from my colleague-customers the world over, and I can be contacted directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com. I would be delighted to hear from you, and I thank you for considering this resource for your classroom.
This lesson focuses on Chords and Cadences. Specific content is as follows: Major/ Minor/ Diminished/ Augmented chords and how they fit into major and minor keys; Root Position/ First Inversion/ Second Inversion chords; Perfect/ Imperfect/ Plagal/ Interrupted/ Tierce de Picardie Cadences. Students are taken through the information with both an information sheet, and a step-by-step PowerPoint. 12 x written/ notation tasks spread over 3 x activities develop students’ ability to create, identify and interpret all basic chord types and the 5 main types of cadence (mentioned above). 10 x listening questions conclude the lesson, in which students’ ability to distinguish between Perfect and Imperfect cadences is developed. Two Tierce de Picardie cadences are also included in the listening test to challenge more gifted musicians. By the end of the lesson students will have a secure knowledge of chords and cadences.
This download includes a 33-slide animated and beautifully-presented PowerPoint, annotated with detailed teaching guidance notes, to make delivery of the lesson smooth and efficient – plus a 4-page student information sheet, 4-page activity sheet and 3-page detailed answers sheet. With regards to the listening questions, MP3s are provided (and they are always my own compositions), and you may well want to insert the audios into the slide rather than use media player.
I take great pride in my resources, and the time and effort I put into them is immediately clear. I am confident that you will find this topic to be fully and comprehensively resourced in order to meet both your needs and the needs of your students… and it will save you (literally) hours of planning, too. I welcome any questions and feedback, and I can be contacted at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com. Thank you for considering my resources for your classroom.
This topic focuses on Ornamentation, specifically: Glissando/ Portamento/ Slide; Appoggiatura; Acciaccatura; Trill; Turn; Mordent; Pitch Bend. Students are taken through the information with both an information sheet, and a step-by-step PowerPoint. 15 x notation tasks develop students’ ability to recognise the symbols by name, then to be able to use the symbols themselves, and then to interpret realisations of the symbols. 10 x listening questions follow which develop students’ ability to focus on detail and musical memory - skills which are vital for the listening exam. By the end of the lesson students will know what ornaments look like, how they sound, and how they differ from one musical era to another.
All of this comes with a 28-slide animated and beautifully-presented PowerPoint, annotated with detailed teaching guidance notes, to make delivery of the topic smooth and efficient – plus a 3-page student information sheet, 4-page activity sheet, and 3-page detailed answer sheet. With regards to the listening questions, MP3s are provided (and they are always my own compositions), and you may well want to insert the audios into the slide rather than use media player.
I take great pride in my resources, and the time and effort I put into them is immediately clear. I am confident that you will find this topic to be fully and comprehensively resourced in order to meet both your needs and the needs of your students… and it will save you (literally) hours of planning, too. I welcome any questions and feedback, and I can be contacted at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com. Thank you for considering my resources for your classroom.
This resource is suitable for AS and A Level Music and from Grade 4 to Grade 6 ABRSM Theory. This is at least a whole lesson worth of content and activities, and probably 2. It is fully supported by a 29-slide PowerPoint and 2 worksheets, all with complete and detailed answers.
This resource pack could be used for both revision and content delivery. By the end of worksheet 1, students will be confident in identifying and labelling all six basic types of non-harmony notes, which create mild melodic dissonance: Echappée; Cambiata; Passing; Neighbour; Appoggiatura; Anticipations. Students will also be taught (and given practice in) distinguishing between chromatic and diatonic dissonance, and between accented and unaccented dissonances created by each of the six types of dissonance stated above.
The second worksheet concerns itself with prepared dissonances. Students will be taught how to (and given more practice in) distinguishing between sevenths, suspensions, and retardations. They will also learn how to identify 9-8, 7-6, 4-3 (and even 2-3 Bass) suspensions, along with 7-8 and 2-3 Retardations. The final part of worksheet 2 offers practice in distinguishing between prepared and passing 7ths. This is a complete study of melodic dissonance, and will feed directly into both examination and composition skills. There are more than 30 exercises in total (33) – all with detailed answers, and a comprehensive PowerPoint presentation (which includes Objectives, differentiated Outcomes, etc) making delivery of the content a breeze for you, the teacher.
I really hope that you will enjoy my resources and find them useful. I pride myself on the quality of the resources that I publish, and I welcome feedback and enquiries from all of my colleague-customers across the world. I can be contacted directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com and I would be delighted to hear from you. Thank you for considering this resource for your classroom.
This resource comprises 10 worksheets designed to secure, revise, and test knowledge of Chords and Keys. Aimed at Key Stage 4 Students, each worksheet should take around 20-25 minutes to complete, making them perfect on an individual basis for homework tasks, tests, distance-learning, revision activities, and collectively, as full cover lessons suitable for a supply teacher. If you use it for the latter, you needn’t worry about coming back to a huge pile of marking because full answers and a detailed teacher guide are also included in this resource pack, so students can mark and correct their own work, and teachers (or parents) with limited specialist subject knowledge are well supported.
Specifically, the worksheets incorporate the following types of activity: identifying major, minor, augmented, and diminished chords using fixed-interval semitone patterns (for both the bass and treble clef); identifying primary and secondary chords within a stated key (in the bass and treble clef); identifying diatonic and chromatic chords within and outside of a stated key (in bass and treble clef notation); identifying cadences within keys (again, in both the bass and treble clef); creating, labelling, and identifying chords and chord progressions using Roman Numerals, including root, 1st inversion, and 2nd inversion positions (on bass and treble staves); identifying keys, key relationships, and key signatures; identifying, labelling, and creating 7th chords; identifying modulations and pivot chords in short passages of written music. In total, there are 100 multi-part questions spread across 10 high-quality worksheets, which should keep students busy for over three hours. There is also a full teacher guide with suggestions for extension tasks, which will help you to maximise the learning.
I take great care to ensure my resources are of the highest quality – both in content and in presentation – and I wholeheartedly recommend them to both you and your students. I welcome feedback and enquiries from my colleague-customers all over the world, and I can be contacted directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com. I would be delighted to hear from you, and I thank you for considering this resource for your classroom or home.
**Ideal for Year 7s and 8s, this project is fully resourced with enough activities for up to 3 hours of fun-packed, exciting, quality learning. **
In this download pack, you will receive:
1 x Starter Word Search introducing key words associated with Indian Music (Literacy)
1 x 5-page worksheet with 10 separate tasks covering the whole range of listening, composing, and performing skills
1 x 3-minute annotated video demonstrating the 4 main components of Indian Music with plenty of incidental learning embedded.
1 x 19-Slide PowerPoint with Objectives, Outcomes, Answers for tasks to enable easy marking, and MUCH more
1 x Main task focusing on group performance in the form of a Bhangra-Hindustani Groove (composed by myself)
5 x MP3 files modelling the individual parts, the main task and extension task.
1 x Snake-Charming fact sheet for you to incorporate a short ethical debate should you wish (PHSCE)
1 x Crossword for homework to recap key words relating to Indian Music (Numeracy)
This project deals first with features of Hindustani Music (Raag sections, etc.) and then moves onto Bhangra (Chaal, Tumbi, etc.). The main task and extension task is designed to explicitly fuse these two styles together in order to deepen and broaden learning. Topics and skills covered include: notation skills; knowledge of instruments; contextual knowledge; how to create ragas with numeric patterns; improvising within a raga; appraising one’s own and others’ work; performing; analysing.
I really hope that you will enjoy my resources and find them useful. I pride myself on the quality of the resources that I publish, and I welcome feedback and enquiries from all of my colleague-customers across the world. I can be contacted directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com and I would be delighted to hear from you. Thank you for considering this resource for your classroom.
There are up to 3 hours of content in this pack, which covers each of the 6 musical eras of the Western Classical Tradition, a 900-year musical journey! It’s a great introduction to the musical eras and because of the way it is designed and structured, it is also an excellent choice for cover work.
Each of the six musical eras from the Medieval to the 20th-Century has its own reading, writing, and listening activity, with a further True or False activity for Medieval and Renaissance, Baroque and Classical, and Romantic and 20th Century, to deepen understanding.
While students complete the reading and comprehension activities for each era, there are YouTube links provided to suitable and interesting pieces of music to play in the background, giving students a ‘flavour’ of the era that they are reading about and answering questions about, and a listening sheet to record their observations and opinions for a class discussion at the end of the activity. The links are all checked and are valid as of 28th October 2020. There is also a teacher handout with full instructions as to how to run the lessons, including questions to ask the students, and prompts to remind them of certain things. The great thing about this resource is it is also absolutely perfect for a supply or substitute teacher who has no specialist musical knowledge at all. The teacher handout even has a box at the bottom to give you feedback or concerns from the lesson(s), so you can follow up, just in case you have set it as cover. Everything has been thought of, and it is beautifully presented in an engaging and structured manner.
I really hope that you will enjoy my resources and find them useful. I pride myself on the quality of my resources and on the quality of my customer service. Please send any enquiries either before or after purchase to rainynightmusic@hotmail.com and I will be more than happy to help you in any way that I can.
This bundle contains full resources (PowerPoints, Worksheets, Answer Sheets) for 5 whole topics, covering essential content for ALL A-Level Music courses, regardless of specification. This Variety Bundle includes a topic from each of the 5 broad areas of music: Intervals (from Harmony and Tonality); Binary Forms (from Genre and Form); Simple and Compound Time (from Rhythm and Metre); Transposition and Transposing Instruments (from Sonority/ Timbre and Dynamics); Dissonance and Non-Harmony Notes (from Melody and Texture).
Each topic contains a detailed worksheet, information sheet, answer sheet, and PowerPoint. There is at least 15 hours worth of lesson and homework content in this bundle, and it is actually closer to 20 hours.
I really hope that you will enjoy my resources and find them useful. I pride myself on the quality of the resources that I publish, and I welcome feedback and enquiries from all of my colleague-customers across the world. I can be contacted directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com and I would be delighted to hear from you. Thank you for considering this resource for your classroom.
This bundle contains Five great worksheets and full detailed answers, relating to Area of Study 2 on the current AQA Specification for A Level Music.
The pack includes 5 worksheets, 5 sets of answers, and 5 x Sibelius scores (in several versions) for 5 songs from named artists on the specification. Together, these songs cover the entire list of elements required for Area of Study 2.
Specifically, the worksheets are for the following songs and artists: Muse, Apocalypse Please and Undisclosed Desires; Stevie Wonder, I Just Called To Say I Love You and Superstition; Joni Mitchell, Blue.
I pride myself on the quality of the resources that I publish, and I welcome feedback and enquiries from my colleague-customers all over the world. I can be contacted directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com and I would be delighted to hear from you. Thank you for considering this resource for your classroom.
If you teach the AQA specification, you may also like to consider my Classical Bundle which has 10 x Teaching and Learning Packs covering some Section A, B, and C Set Works. It’s available for £25 here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/aqa-a-level-music-classical-bundle-12026114
This resource pack comprises 10 Crossword Puzzles based on general musical knowledge, and they are designed for Years 7 to 9, but can also be used as revision for GCSE/ BTEC music students. Each puzzle has 15 clues to solve and it is expected that students will take between 10 and 15 minutes to complete each one. As such, they work well on an individual basis as Starters, homework tasks, or revision, and can even be used in combination to fill up to 2 complete cover lessons.
Each puzzle has 15 clues, and each clue falls into one of 15 areas: Composers; Countries; Techniques/ Technology; Chords/ Scales; Instruments; Structure/ Form; Genre/ Style; Keys; Tempos; Dynamics/ Articulation; Signs and Symbols; Broadway Musicals; History of Pop Music Singers and Groups; Elements and Eras; Music Theory ‘pot luck’. Since each puzzle contains one clue from each of these 15 areas, they are truly balanced and broad-ranging, making each one great for testing general musical knowledge – not to mention fun!
A full set of answers are provided so that students can self-mark and correct – especially important if you use the activities for cover as you will not want to return to a pile of marking! Feel free to allow students to use the internet to research some of the more tricky clues – independent learning is always beneficial to students.
I take great care to ensure my resources are of the highest quality – both in content and in presentation – and I wholeheartedly recommend them to both you and your students. I welcome feedback and enquiries from my colleague-customers all over the world, and I can be contacted directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com. I would be delighted to hear from you, and I thank you for considering this resource for your classroom.
Joni Mitchell is the third-named artist in the optional - and most popular - Area of Study 2: Pop Music on the new AQA A Level Syllabus (for first teaching from September 2016). Blue is carefully chosen by Rainy Night Music as one of five songs, covering the top three named artists on the syllabus, which - together - cover ALL of the elements listed by AQA in Area of Study 2, whilst offering the necessary contrast. This resource pack comprises: a full Sibelius Piano and Voice score of Blue for Sibelius 4, 5, 6, 7, and 7.5, including first and student versions - all versions included in download; a 2-page student worksheet designed to allow students to gain vital analysis skills; a 2-page detailed answer sheet, which constitutes a thorough analysis of everything that a student needs to know for the exam; an MP3 audio of the Sibelius score from a high quality sound-card recording. If you are a teacher, this resource pack will save you literally hours of planning; if you are a student, this will inform you about everything you need to know about this piece for the exam. Teaching and Learning Packs for the other 4 songs are also available from Rainy Night Music for more great value prices: Muse: Undisclosed Desires (£4); Muse: Apocalypse Please (£4); Stevie Wonder: I Just Called To Say I Love You (£4); Stevie Wonder: Superstition (£3). All resources bear the hallmark of quality and experience that you come to expect when you buy the Rainy Night Music brand.
This substantially resourced pack builds upon prior knowledge of intervals, major and minor scales, including the creation of triads, through a detailed study of the Pentatonic Scale and its modes, alongside the two most common Hexatonic Scales, the Whole Tone Scale and the Blues Scale. It is appropriate for all GCSE Music exam boards, AQA, Edexcel, OCR, and Eduqas, and should take about 2 hours to teach. It may also be used as a bridging topic for A Level Music.
Specifically, the pack includes the following high-quality materials: an original 6-page text-book style handout, with diagrams and annotations, covering the entire content of the topic; a 5-page worksheet containing written activities relating to the creation of the scales and their triads, and a listening activity relating to the recognition of Blues Scale, Pentatonic, and Whole Tone melodies; 10 x 30-second-long MP3 files for the listening activity (also embedded into the PowerPoint); 1 x 34-slide comprehensive and beautifully animated PowerPoint, with detailed teaching guidance notes for every single slide, making delivery of content an absolute breeze; 4-page answer sheet for the activities. Please note that the handout, activity sheet, and answer sheet are all on the same (15-page) PDF document.
The content in this topic will enable students to create Pentatonic, Blues, and Whole Tone Scales and triads, understand how the Pentatonic Scale is placed into modes to change its sound, and they will gain vital experience in hearing and distinguishing between melodies made from these scales. It will be invaluable for their composition work, increasing the scope of their imaginations with regard to tonality.
I take great care to ensure my resources are of the highest quality – both in content and in presentation – and I wholeheartedly recommend them to both you and your students. I welcome feedback and enquiries from my colleague-customers all over the world, and I can be contacted directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com. I would be delighted to hear from you, and I thank you for considering this resource for your classroom.
This pack includes 4 x substantially well-resourced and structured topics, which are not just suitable for, but essential for every GCSE Music specification (AQA, Edexcel, OCR, and Eduqas).
The lessons cover the following topics:
Articulation
Chords and Cadences
Ornaments
Rhythmic Development
For clarity, each lesson pack includes the following:
Detailed take-home Information sheet for students
Detailed Worksheet
Detailed PowerPoint with Answers, objectives, outcomes, content delivery
Listening Test (10 questions with 10 MP3 files exported from Sibelius).
I really hope that you will enjoy my resources and find them useful. I pride myself on the quality of the resources that I publish, and I welcome feedback and enquiries from all of my colleague-customers across the world. I can be contacted directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com and I would be delighted to hear from you. Thank you for considering this resource for your classroom.
Perfect for Year 7, this project takes students on an exciting journey which begins with the introduction of the Musical Alphabet. From here, they learn how to construct melodies using ordinary words. They are then introduced to simple 3-note chords - again using only the letters of the Musical Alphabet (no sharp or flat symbols, just letters). Students then learn how to match their words with chords, which becomes the basis of a melody with an accompaniment. The next part of the journey is to learn 4 of the basic music symbols and their numeric values in terms of beats (semibreve=4, minim=2, crotchet=1, quaver=1/2). Students group the symbols in a variety of ways so that the combined value is always 4, which creates rhythms. Finally, students are shown how to allocate these rhythms to the words that they have already matched with chords. This creates a rhythmic melody with an accompaniment. The project may end with students (in pairs or small groups) performing their compositions at the piano - a printable ‘note ruler’ is included with the download pack, which fits perfectly over most standard piano keys so that students know which notes to play. They may or may not perform the rhythms correctly, but the composing process, at a basic level, will have been properly learned.
I take great pride in the high quality of resources, the outstanding value and excellent customer service that customers benefit from. I believe that my students deserve the very best and I will not sell any resources that I would not use for my own students. I hope that you decide to purchase from my store, and remember: please do get in touch if you have any questions at all. Contact Steve at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com
