Lesson One: Introducing Musical Instruments and Instrumental Families - Worksheet Pack Worksheets to accompany lesson one of a 6 lesson unit of work looking at musical instruments and instrumental families. The idea is to teach children about these key areas without needing any specialist musical knowledge or practical music resources like instruments. 7 worksheets included in the pack each covering a range of different activities including: Wordsearch Unscrambling activity Cut-and-stick activity Colour coding activity Times table activity Written fact-file activity Riddles activity Worksheets used best in conjunction with the presentation “Introducing Musical Instruments and Instrument Families - Lesson One” - also available. Worksheets presented in a friendly format with a music themed border. Answers provided for each activity where appropriate. Great starter or plenary activities, but could also be used within lesson to consolidate knowledge. Worksheets could supply a number of different lessons or the whole pack could be given at once to encourage children to structure their own learning and manage how and when they complete activities.

This presentation provides a detailed analytical account of numbers 1, 3 and 5 from Ralph Vaughan-Williams’ On Wenlock Edge: On Weblock Edge, Is my team plowing?, and Bredon Hill. 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.