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Resources include lesson plans for KS3-5 Music lessons and PSHEE, software guides, chords and lyrics for songs and, more recently, sheet music of own choral compositions.

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Resources include lesson plans for KS3-5 Music lessons and PSHEE, software guides, chords and lyrics for songs and, more recently, sheet music of own choral compositions.
Buckley key term matching
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Buckley key term matching

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A 'Call My Bluff' of Buckley key terms - there are three definitions of certain key terms in Grace. Pupils work out which is the best fit. There are some definitions that pupils can discount straight away; e.g. EQ is not ET's cousin. Other key terms can be used. Useful for a starter for Grace and could be used for a revision aid if the options are harder to discern the difference between.
Composer/Band/Singer picture game!
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Composer/Band/Singer picture game!

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This is a fun game as part of the end of a lesson or start to look at composers with KS3. Pupils have to work out the composer/band/singer from pictures e.g. the example is a picture of a door handle; from there the pupils 'say what they see' and work out it's Handel. Others include Liszt, Chopin, Oasis, Jessie J, Britney Spears and Black Eyed Peas. Any feedback you have or other musicians I could add in would be great, thanks!
Match key word to the music element
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Match key word to the music element

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An open task for KS3 - Year 7 task or Year 9 revision. Feel free to cater it to the needs of your class, there are lots of other key terms that can be added and lots of other tasks that can branch off from this.
Capercaillie text
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Capercaillie text

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Useful for students to cut up (in lines) and put lyrics together in order, match up with the Gaelic or even to cut in random shapes to put together.
Elements of Music homework
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Elements of Music homework

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Students research the definitions of musical elements and find words associated with the key term. E.g. Tempo = speed of a piece = allegro, largo, rallentando etc. Any feedback would be great, thanks!
Moby info
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Moby info

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A quick quiz on the key points associated with Moby and his music. Useful as a start into the subject or as a revision task at the end of a scheme of work. Other questions can be added to it and other pieces from the anthology.
Something's Coming lyrics
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Something's Coming lyrics

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Can be used for students to cut up and put into order. Also useful to group the lyrics in order to see how many verses there are and how short they are.
Film Composer Puzzles
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Film Composer Puzzles

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A series of facts associated with either Hans Zimmer, Alexandre Desplat, John Williams and Thomas Newman. Students research online to work out which fact is associated with which composer. Facts taken from Wikipedia.
Rhythm composition
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Rhythm composition

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Lesson plan based on students creating a rhythm composition and combining what rhythm they hear with which musical symbols. Any feedback would be brill, thanks!
Composition boxes
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Composition boxes

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Students can compose a piece based on rhythms - basic introduction to composition. Students can apply different rhythms, rests, ostinati and structure. Any feedback would be great, thanks!
Blues Higher or Lower
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Blues Higher or Lower

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Useful for a quick plenary or even as a starter to get pupils thinking about numbers relating to Blues music but they have to work out if the next answer is higher or lower than the previous. For example, Q1. How many chords in standard Blues chord patterns? 3. Q2. Blues started in which century? (higher or lower than 3 - previous answer) etc. Any feedback would be great, thanks!
Edexcel GCSE quick-fire anthology questions
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Edexcel GCSE quick-fire anthology questions

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Starter/plenary questions based on half of the set works - Indian/African/Celtic and Reich/Schoenberg/Bernstein. Can be used to cut out and stick on card for revision of the set work or a revision of a starting lesson on the set work.
Matching note values, names and symbols
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Matching note values, names and symbols

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Match the length of note, name and what it looks like to the descriptions provided. This can be used as a worksheet or each description cut up, put into envelopes and scattered at various points of the classroom. Can be used as part of a starter, plenary or main task. Any feedback would be great, thanks!
Sibelius help
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Sibelius help

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Basic functions of how to use Sibelius. A work in progress but I've tried to use the main functions and there are many things that can be added to this. Any feedback would be very useful!
Bernstein's Something's Coming by numbers
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Bernstein's Something's Coming by numbers

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Useful for improving numeracy of students; task is to count the amount of accents, find the bar of a certain word, count the beats of a certain syllable etc. Handy to use as a starter to introduce the new work. Lots of other items can be added.
Edexcel GCSE Shoenberg Peripetie quiz
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Edexcel GCSE Shoenberg Peripetie quiz

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Mix of audio, visual, written questions and mini essay at the end. Answers on duplicate slides at the end. If you are using it and want to include the audio questions do have a look through the answers to the audio questions as it'll either tell you or give you an idea of when to play the track. Feedback would be great, thanks!