**Film Music - Looking at music and mood in movie trailers
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Trailer Film Music Activity
This activity works on looking at how music can change the mood of a trailer. Students love to watch scenes from their favourite films, so this is a great activity for working with film music.
This resource includes:
Teacher guide to using this activity
3 sections to work on 3 different trailers
Each sheet includes questions to keep students on task and to analyse the music
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This resource includes an easy to understand explanation of:
– Explaining what a cadence is
– Explaining the difference between finished and unfinished cadences
– Finished: Perfect and Plagal cadences
– Unfinished: Imperfect and Interrupted cadences
This is a great resource for students to stick into their copy books or folders. It is an A4 size and is in PDF format.
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**Renaissance Music Lesson
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Bring your students back in time to the Renaissance! This presentation is in PDF format and includes two lessons. This outlines a brief history about the renaissance and goes through the type of music during this time. Youtube links to resources found about each instrument and music included in this lesson also.
Lesson 1 includes:
Brief history
Instruments
Features
Singing exercise (polyphonic feature of renaissance )
Lesson 2
Recap previous lesson
Listening activity
Musical Bingo (the bingo cards are not included. for this you need to pick key words you find suitable for your class and to create the game from there. This can be done by writing 8-10 words on the board and asking students to write any 6 into their copy. You can then pull each word out of a hat and which ever student has all keywords first wins.)
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Music Technology Processing FX Definitions Sheet - Ideal for Junior Cycle & Leaving Cert Music
This comprehensive resource is designed to support students in understanding key music production concepts. Aimed primarily at the Junior Cycle Music curriculum, it also serves as a helpful tool for those studying Queen’s (Set A) or The Beatles (Set B) for the Leaving Cert.
The sheet clearly explains essential music technology terms, including:
Compression
Panning
Reverb.
Echo & Delay
Distortion
Perfect as a student handout or revision aid, this sheet simplifies complex concepts, helping learners grasp how these tools shape modern music production. It’s an invaluable resource for any music class or individual study.
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This is a three page work book for building students aural skills.
The first page involves:
listening grid exercise: Focusing on tempo, dynamics, instruments and texture
The second page includes:
Listening tips on how to build music listening skills
The third page:
An instrument aural ear training exercise
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**Music Listening Grid - Worksheet
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To help students with their aural skills, I have made a worksheet for students to focus on four elements. Texture, dynamics, tempo, and instruments.
I use this grid system for students to help them focus and listen to music outside of a question or exam paper.
This is suitable for any music class: Junior Cycle, Leaving Cert and general music appreciation
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This involves an info-graphic and three worksheets: an exercise, a place to write definitions, and a quiz.
This is great for students to learn the elements of music and to become familiar with these key words.
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**The Elements of Music - FREE Infographic
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This is a free printout for the elements of music. Great for students to stick to the inside/back cover of their copies for easy access
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MUSIC JINGLES WORKSHEET
This sheet is aimed at Junior Cycle music under the learning outcome:
“Create a musical statement (such as a rap or an advertising jingle) about a topical issue or current event and share with others the statements’ purpose and development”
However, can be useful for any music class to boost creativity.
Included in this resource:
Jingle Planner (brand, slogans, product)
A section for songwriting and chords
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This is a worksheet aimed at looking at how music plays a role in film/tv. Music has the power to change how a viewer perceives a movie, therefore students can have some fun with the short film ‘Piper’ (which can be found on Disney+).
Youtube also has great music to use alongside changing the mood of music, or students can pick a song to change the mood. Simply mute the ‘Piper’ video and play a different song in the background.
This worksheet includes questions about:
The role music has on mood in films
How changing the music in a film can change the story
Section to create a graphic score
This booklet was created to replicate the process of creating music for film. To begin with this booklet, the teacher/educator will begin by selecting a scene from a film to work on throughout this task.
Included in this booklet
Test Screening Evaluation (here students act as the audience to gain a perspective of the scene, although not music specific, it gives students an audience perspective before they become the composer)
Score Spotting list (here students will watch the scene without any sound)
How to compose a score (students will start to work on their plan)
4.**** Composing a score**** (here students use their plan to create music, I advise to use musecore, bandlab or allowing students to compose using instruments)
Enjoy!
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This resource has a diagram for homophonic, monophonic and polyphonic textures of music.
There is also an activity based on texture which can be assigned as homework or extra activities.
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This is a booklet with helpful study tips for students. It highlights the different learning styles and helps students create a study schedule
Page 1: Study Tips
Page 2 and 3: What type of learner are you? and how you can study to best suit your style of learning
Page 4: Time Management
Page 5: Template timetable for studying
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This summarizes how to create a major scale using tones and semi tones. There is also a blank piano template to help students to navigate the tones and semi tones.