True or false quiz about percussion instruments. Questions cover instrument names, key features of percussion instruments and how they make a sound, and percussion instrument history as well as key facts about material and structure. Answers provided on a separate sheet. Great plenary activity to assess student learning. Great cross-curricular activity of developing literacy skills in other subjects.

Cut and stick activity involving ordering and sorting. Names of percussion instruments to be matched to the relevant facts. Answer sheet provided.

A wordsearch on keyboard instruments and key features of keyboard instruments. Wordsearch involves 11 different words. Answers provided on a separate sheet. Great plenary or starter activity. Great for learning key words and their spellings. Presented in an appealing way with a musical border and some images.

Unscramble activity involving the names of different keyboard instruments and key words associated with the keyboard family of instruments. Great activity for learning key words and their spellings. Great starter or plenary activity.

Worksheet designed to challenge children to learn and recall the names of musical instruments through the unscrambling of letters. Answers provided on a separate sheet. Worksheet is laid out in a friendly-manner. Framed in such a way to encourage the children to complete the work by giving a back-story about a character Oli Owl who has mixed up his letters in his musical instrument inventory. Worksheet invites the children to help Oli write his list out again. First letter of each instrument is left a capital as a starting point for each answer. Useful for learning musical instrument names, practising handwriting, practising spelling. Great starter or plenary task.

Wordsearch covering keywords relating to instrumental families and properties of instrumental families. 18 words to find in the wordsearch. Answers are provided on a separate sheet. Wordsearch is laid out in a family manner, with some images, musical border and space between the letters. Words to find are given at the bottom of the page. Great starter or plenary task. Useful for encouraging children to recall the names of different instrumental families, their properties, and learn their spellings in a fun and relaxed way. Could maybe have a class competition to see who can complete the wordsearch the quickest?

Colour coding worksheet encouraging children to think about different musical instruments and decide which instrumental family they belong to. 24 musical instruments given with instructions to colour-code the instruments based on whether they are in the woodwind, brass, string, keyboard, or percussion family. Answers provided on a separate sheet. Great starter or plenary activity.

Names of different instrumental families are given but with their letters scrambled up. Children are asked to unscramble the letters to work out which instrumental family is being named. The first letter of each family is left capitalised as a starting point. Worksheet framed in a child-friendly manner by creating a character “Oli Owl” who is making and instrument inventory but got his letters muddled. Worksheet invites children to help “Oli” write his inventory by unscrambling his letters. Answers provided on a separate sheet.

A writing based activity to create a fact file about instrumental families. Skills involved: writing, reading, and memory recall. Children are given a short paragraph about each instrumental family in turn but with unfinished sentences. Children are to complete the sentences to create a fact file about instrumental families. Example as follows: "I am the woodwind family. Instruments in my family include… I am normally made of … Some features of the woodwind family are… "

Designed to consolidate student’s knowledge of key features of instrumental families. A reading activity where students are presented with a short paragraph describing an instrumental family and they are asked to decide which instrumental family is being described. Answers provided on a separate sheet. Great starter or plenary activity.

This presentation provides a detailed analytical account of Lady Day and John Coltrane, Inner State of Mind, and Love and Affection from Courtney Pine’s album Back in the Day. The presentation covers analytical points of interest within each piece regarding the melody, harmony, texture, tonality, rhythm, metre, tempo, sonority, and dynamics to aid students in their ability to answer essay questions. Also covered is a chronological account of analytical points of interest within each music to help prepare students to answer listening questions on these works. The presentation also includes contextual information surrounding the work, including links to works of a similar style. The style of presentation is so that it could easily be converted into flashcards for revision after the presentation has been used for teaching and score annotations for example.

This presentation provides a detailed analytical account of Birth of a Penguin I, Birth of a Penguin II, Batman vs the Circus, and The Rise and Fall from Grace from Danny Elfman’s score for Batman Returns. The presentation covers analytical points of interest within each piece regarding the melody, harmony, texture, tonality, rhythm, metre, tempo, sonority, and dynamics to aid students in their ability to answer essay questions. Also covered is a chronological account of analytical points of interest within each music to help prepare students to answer listening questions on these works. The presentation also includes contextual information surrounding the work, including links to works of a similar style. The style of presentation is so that it could easily be converted into flashcards for revision after the presentation has been used for teaching and score annotations for example.

This presentation provides a detailed analytical account of Prelude, The City, Marion, The Murder, The Toys, The Cellar, Discovery and Finale from Hermann’s score for the film Psycho. The presentation covers analytical points of interest within each piece regarding the melody, harmony, texture, tonality, rhythm, metre, tempo, sonority, and dynamics to aid students in their ability to answer essay questions. Also covered is a chronological account of analytical points of interest within each music to help prepare students to answer listening questions on these works. The presentation also includes contextual information surrounding the work, including links to works of a similar style. The style of presentation is so that it could easily be converted into flashcards for revision after the presentation has been used for teaching and score annotations for example.

This presentation provides a detailed analytical account of the first movement of Clara Schumann’s Piano Trio in G minor. The presentation covers analytical points of interest within the piece regarding the melody, harmony, texture, tonality, rhythm, metre, tempo, sonority, and dynamics to aid students in their ability to answer essay questions. Also covered is a chronological account of analytical points of interest within the music to help prepare students to answer listening questions on this work. The presentation also includes contextual information surrounding the work, including links to works of a similar style. The style of this presentation is so that it could easily be converted into flashcards for revision after the presentation has been used for teaching and score annotations for example.

This presentation provides a detailed analytical account of movements one, two, and eight of J. S Bach’s ‘Ein Feste Burg’ BWV 80. The presentation covers analytical points of interest within each piece regarding the melody, harmony, texture, tonality, rhythm, metre, tempo, sonority, and dynamics to aid students in their ability to answer essay questions. Also covered is a chronological account of analytical points of interest within each music to help prepare students to answer listening questions on these works. The presentation also includes contextual information surrounding the work, including links to works of a similar style. The style of presentation is so that it could easily be converted into flashcards for revision after the presentation has been used for teaching.

This presentation provides a detailed analytical account of Debussy’s La Soiree dans Grenade and Pagodes from Estampes. The presentation covers analytical points of interest within each piece regarding the melody, harmony, texture, tonality, rhythm, metre, tempo, sonority, and dynamics to aid students in their ability to answer essay questions. Also covered is a chronological account of analytical points of interest within each music to help prepare students to answer listening questions on these works. The presentation also includes contextual information surrounding the work, including links to works of a similar style. The style of presentation is so that it could easily be converted into flashcards for revision after the presentation has been used for teaching and score annotations for example.

This presentation provides a detailed analytical account of Petals by Kaija Saariaho. The presentation covers analytical points of interest within the piece regarding the melody, harmony, texture, tonality, rhythm, metre, tempo, sonority, and dynamics to aid students in their ability to answer essay questions. Also covered is a chronological account of analytical points of interest within the music to help prepare students to answer listening questions on these works. The presentation also includes contextual information surrounding the work, including links to works of a similar style. The style of presentation is so that it could easily be converted into flashcards for revision after the presentation has been used for teaching and score annotations for example.

This presentation provides a detailed analytical account of The Introduction, The Augars of Spring, and the Ritual from Abduction from Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. The presentation covers analytical points of interest within each piece regarding the melody, harmony, texture, tonality, rhythm, metre, tempo, sonority, and dynamics to aid students in their ability to answer essay questions. Also covered is a chronological account of analytical points of interest within each music to help prepare students to answer listening questions on these works. The presentation also includes contextual information surrounding the work, including links to works of a similar style. The style of presentation is so that it could easily be converted into flashcards for revision after the presentation has been used for teaching and score annotations for example.

This presentation provides a detailed analytical account of The Duchess and End Titles, Mistake of Your Life, Six Years Later, and Never See Your Children again from Rachel Portman’s score to the film, The Duchess. The presentation covers analytical points of interest within each piece regarding the melody, harmony, texture, tonality, rhythm, metre, tempo, sonority, and dynamics to aid students in their ability to answer essay questions. Also covered is a chronological account of analytical points of interest within each music to help prepare students to answer listening questions on these works. The presentation also includes contextual information surrounding the work, including links to works of a similar style. The style of presentation is so that it could easily be converted into flashcards for revision after the presentation has been used for teaching and score annotations for example.

This presentation provides a detailed analytical account of the first dance from Three Dances for Two Prepared Pianos by John Cage. The presentation covers analytical points of interest within the piece regarding the melody, harmony, texture, tonality, rhythm, metre, tempo, sonority, and dynamics to aid students in their ability to answer essay questions. Also covered is a chronological account of analytical points of interest within each music to help prepare students to answer listening questions on this work. The presentation also includes contextual information surrounding the work, including links to works of a similar style. The style of presentation is so that it could easily be converted into flashcards for revision after the presentation has been used for teaching and score annotations for example.