A guide of how to harmonise Bach Chorales. This includes; *example Bach chorales *theory exercises to prepare for harmonising Bach chorales *practice questions *ways to harmonise cadences and phrases using stock progressions *methods to include more sophistication including modulations, cadential 6-4s, diminished chords and suspensions More resources available on my page.

A Sibelius guide aimed at Year 8 students and above; shortcuts, basic functions and tips. Any feedback would be great, thanks!

A worksheet of associating certain instruments with heroes or villains. It doesn't contain any links to tracks but you can use certain film and TV theme tunes to use for associations. For example, Double Bass - Jaws - Villain. Trumpet - Indiana Jones - Hero. Any feedback would be great, thanks!

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!

Based on using Sibelius on iMacs. Ignore first page as it fits our current set up at school. Includes functions such as adding comments, adding in second voices, seeing one part at a time and staff size as well as (iMac-related) shortcuts all of which can be done for PC by changing the 'cmd&' button to &';control' button. Any feedback would be great, thanks!

This is a presentation of steps to prepare students for Grade 5 Associated Board Music Theory. Students can use boomwhackers, xylophones, etc. to use examples and to create their own.

Useful for a quick revision of how to use Sibelius - follow the simple steps to recap basic functions of Sibelius. Other steps can be added, deleted, edited etc.

Useful for a starter for orchestral lessons. Wordsearches can be created easily at the website mentioned at the bottom of the wordsearch.

Useful to have an electronic version of the glossary - handy to use to cut out, have pupils work in groups to work out which words they recognise/can match up with other definitions or can be used to associate key terms with Areas of Study pieces. It saves someone else typing it up, hopefully!

A series of weird and wacky composer facts that may be useful as a starter with Year 7s or 8s on the history of music. Examples include Beethoven's pre-composing ritual, Tchaikovsky's fear when performing and Debussy's obsession. Any feedback would be great, thanks!

A useful start for Year 8 (and even Year 7) pupils into Classical music. The task is a comprehension with the document - students answer questions based on picking out information from within the comprehension. Pupils then summarise information from the questions to come up with 5 most important points about the Classical era. This is a document I'd re-worded from Wikipedia, adding and omitting bits where I saw fit. There are all kinds of things that can be added on such as more about instrument inventions, more composers, pieces of music etc. Any feedback would be great, thanks!

A quick quiz on A Day In The Life made up of facts mainly from the AS Music Study Guide. Can be used with anthologies to get pupils started on this piece or without as a revision topic in preparation for the exam.

3x sets of listening questions, mark schemes and audio files with announcements, timings and pauses built in including those using extra time (on Hitchhike vs. Love Train)

This document contains questions to help students familiarise themselves with reading a score. Questions are about keys, chords, returning themes, orchestration and more. These are the Teacher copies (i.e. questions and answers) but student copies can be made by creating a new document for the students. Feedback is most welcome - I’ve got questions for movements 2, 3 and the start of 4 to upload too.

This is a set of questions to help students familiarise themselves with the Haydn 104.1 Development. There are tips for score reading as well as questions on chords, keys and musical features of the development. Practice for question 12. More questions/sections to upload - feedback is welcome!

Helpful for creating achievable, challenging and measurable targets. Rather than saying 'I want to learn how to play the guitar', for example, you could change it to 'I want to learn how to play a C major scale without hesitation by the 10th of November' for example. Any feedback would be great, thanks!

A handbook of information of different styles of music from Renaissance to Film. Including; contextual information musical features of different styles/periods of music suggested/famous pieces and composers Useful for KS3-5 in varying levels of detail. More resources available on my page ranging from KS3-KS5

This is a list of devices that can be cut up, laminated and organised into harmonic, rhythmic, structural and melodic. Any feedback or other musical devices you can think of, please let me know. Thanks!

A list of the musical checkpoints of Symphony of Psalms. Can be used to cut out and stick on a paper copy of the Symphony of Psalms. Useful for learning what happens in what sections.

Some key terms from Rag Desh for students to unscramble - either for an amusing introductory lesson to see what words they can come up with(!) or for a quick-fire quiz round. Any feedback would be great, thanks!