Extremely useful GCSE and A Level revision materials for both students and teachers. They have served me well in my courses and I hope they can be of benefit to you too!
Extremely useful GCSE and A Level revision materials for both students and teachers. They have served me well in my courses and I hope they can be of benefit to you too!
These notes will help you learn and revise Component 3 (Appraising) content for the A Level Music exam, specifically concerning the following work:
Cantata ‘Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott’ BWV 80, 1st, 2nd and 8th movements (Bach)
This resource includes:
Historical and stylistic context of the set work and key vocabulary.
Detailed key information regarding all musical elements relevant to the set work: sonority, instrumentation, texture, structure, melody, harmony, tonality, rhythm, metre, tempo and dynamics.
A* examples to give you an in-depth knowledge ready for essay and listening questions in the exam.
Relevant wider listening comparisons (both similarities and differences) which will be essential for higher level responses to an exam question.
Possible ways of revising this material include:
Highlighting key words in the notes
Write an essay question and see if you have remembered all the points and examples listed
Listening to the wider listening suggestions and seeing if you can recognise the key features listed and compare them to the piece
These notes are also really good for making revision cards from
They have served me well in my A Level music course and I hope they can be of benefit to you too!
There’s also plenty more where this came from, so please check out my other resources.
Model essay based on the Edexcel A Level Music set works. This is a top band response to the following question:
Evaluate Saariaho’s use of sonority, dynamics and tempi as a means of exploiting the expressive and technical potential of the cello. Relate your discussion to other relevant works. These may include set works, wider listening or other.
A really useful resource to give students key information on the Passe Compose:
Forming the past tense
List of irregular past participles
Past tense with etre
This has served me well in my GCSE course and I hope it can be of benefit to you too!
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These notes will help you learn and revise Component 3 (Appraising) content for the A Level Music exam, specifically concerning the following work:
On Wenlock Edge, No.1 ‘On Wenlock Edge’, No.3 ‘Is My Team Ploughing?’ and No.5 ‘Bredon Hill’ (Vaughan Williams)
This resource includes:
Historical and stylistic context of the set work and key vocabulary.
Detailed key information regarding all musical elements relevant to the set work: sonority, instrumentation, texture, structure, melody, harmony, tonality, rhythm, metre, tempo and dynamics.
A* examples to give you an in-depth knowledge ready for essay and listening questions in the exam.
Relevant wider listening comparisons (both similarities and differences) which will be essential for higher level responses to an exam question.
Possible ways of revising this material include:
Highlighting key words in the notes
Write an essay question and see if you have remembered all the points and examples listed Listening to the wider listening suggestions and seeing if you can recognise the key features listed and compare them to the piece
These notes are also really good for making revision cards from
They have served me well in my A Level music course and I hope they can be of benefit to you too!
There’s also plenty more where this came from, so please check out my other resources.
These notes will help you learn and revise Component 3 (Appraising) content for the A Level Music exam, specifically concerning the following work:
Prelude’, ‘The City’, ‘Marion’, ‘The Muder’ (shower scene), ‘The Toys’, ‘The Cellar’, ‘Discovery’, ‘Finale’ from Psycho (Bernard Herrman)
This resource includes:
Historical and stylistic context of the set work and key vocabulary.
Detailed key information regarding all musical elements relevant to the set work: sonority, instrumentation, texture, structure, melody, harmony, tonality, rhythm, metre, tempo and dynamics.
A* examples to give you an in-depth knowledge ready for essay and listening questions in the exam.
Relevant wider listening comparisons (both similarities and differences) which will be essential for higher level responses to an exam question.
Possible ways of revising this material include:
Highlighting key words in the notes
Write an essay question and see if you have remembered all the points and examples listed
Listening to the wider listening suggestions and seeing if you can recognise the key features listed and compare them to the piece
These notes are also really good for making revision cards from
They have served me well in my A Level music course and I hope they can be of benefit to you too!
There’s also plenty more where this came from, so please check out my other resources.
These notes will help you learn and revise Component 3 (Appraising) content for the A Level Music exam, specifically concerning the following work:
Breathing Under Water: ‘Burn’, ‘Breathing Under Water’ and ‘Easy’ (Anoushka Shankar)
This resource includes:
Historical and stylistic context of the set work and key vocabulary.
Detailed key information regarding all musical elements relevant to the set work: sonority, instrumentation, texture, structure, melody, harmony, tonality, rhythm, metre, tempo and dynamics.
A* examples to give you an in-depth knowledge ready for essay and listening questions in the exam.
Relevant wider listening comparisons (both similarities and differences) which will be essential for higher level responses to an exam question.
Possible ways of revising this material include:
Highlighting key words in the notes
Write an essay question and see if you have remembered all the points and examples listed
Listening to the wider listening suggestions and seeing if you can recognise the key features listed and compare them to the piece
These notes are also really good for making revision cards from
They have served me well in my A Level music course and I hope they can be of benefit to you too!
There’s also plenty more where this came from, so please check out my other resources.
These notes will help you learn and revise Component 3 (Appraising) content for the A Level Music exam, specifically concerning the following work:
Birth of a Penguin’ Parts 1 & 2, ‘Rise and Fall from Grace’ and ‘Batman vs the Circus’, from Batman Returns(1992) (Danny Elfman)
This resource includes:
Historical and stylistic context of the set work and key vocabulary.
Detailed key information regarding all musical elements relevant to the set work: sonority, instrumentation, texture, structure, melody, harmony, tonality, rhythm, metre, tempo and dynamics.
A* examples to give you an in-depth knowledge ready for essay and listening questions in the exam.
Relevant wider listening comparisons (both similarities and differences) which will be essential for higher level responses to an exam question.
Possible ways of revising this material include:
Highlighting key words in the notes
Write an essay question and see if you have remembered all the points and examples listed
Listening to the wider listening suggestions and seeing if you can recognise the key features listed and compare them to the piece
These notes are also really good for making revision cards from
They have served me well in my A Level music course and I hope they can be of benefit to you too!
There’s also plenty more where this came from, so please check out my other resources.
Key quotes list, essential for any student studying Austen’s “Pride & Prejudice”.
They have served me well in my GCSE English Literature course and I hope they can be of benefit to you too!
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These notes will help you learn and revise Component 3 (Appraising) content for the A Level Music exam, specifically concerning the following work:
Symphonie fantastique: Movement 1 (Berlioz)
This resource includes:
Historical and stylistic context of the set work and key vocabulary.
Detailed key information regarding all musical elements relevant to the set work: sonority, instrumentation, texture, structure, melody, harmony, tonality, rhythm, metre, tempo and dynamics.
A* examples to give you an in-depth knowledge ready for essay and listening questions in the exam.
Relevant wider listening comparisons (both similarities and differences) which will be essential for higher level responses to an exam question.
Possible ways of revising this material include:
Highlighting key words in the notes
Write an essay question and see if you have remembered all the points and examples listed
Listening to the wider listening suggestions and seeing if you can recognise the key features listed and compare them to the piece
These notes are also really good for making revision cards from
They have served me well in my A Level music course and I hope they can be of benefit to you too!
There’s also plenty more where this came from, so please check out my other resources.
Checklist and advice for the Edexcel A Level Music Component 2 Arrangement Task.
They have served me well in my A Level music course and I hope they can be of benefit to you too!
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These notes will help you learn and revise Component 3 (Appraising) content for the A Level Music exam, specifically concerning the following work:
Eleanor Rigby’, ‘Here, There and Everywhere’, ‘I Want to Tell You’ and ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ from Revolver (The Beatles)
This resource includes:
Historical and stylistic context of the set work and key vocabulary.
Detailed key information regarding all musical elements relevant to the set work: sonority, instrumentation, texture, structure, melody, harmony, tonality, rhythm, metre, tempo and dynamics.
A* examples to give you an in-depth knowledge ready for essay and listening questions in the exam.
Relevant wider listening comparisons (both similarities and differences) which will be essential for higher level responses to an exam question.
Possible ways of revising this material include:
Highlighting key words in the notes
Write an essay question and see if you have remembered all the points and examples listed
Listening to the wider listening suggestions and seeing if you can recognise the key features listed and compare them to the piece
These notes are also really good for making revision cards from
They have served me well in my A Level music course and I hope they can be of benefit to you too!
There’s also plenty more where this came from, so please check out my other resources.
Key quotes list, essential for any student studying Becker’s “Good Bye Lenin”.
They have served me well in my A Level German course and I hope they can be of benefit to you too!
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These notes will help you learn and revise Component 3 (Appraising) content for the A Level Music exam, specifically concerning the following work:
Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), No.4 (recit and aria: ‘O zittre nicht’) and No. 5 (quintet: ‘Hm!’) from Act 1 (Mozart)
This resource includes:
Historical and stylistic context of the set work and key vocabulary.
Detailed key information regarding all musical elements relevant to the set work: sonority, instrumentation, texture, structure, melody, harmony, tonality, rhythm, metre, tempo and dynamics.
A* examples to give you an in-depth knowledge ready for essay and listening questions in the exam.
Relevant wider listening comparisons (both similarities and differences) which will be essential for higher level responses to an exam question.
Possible ways of revising this material include:
Highlighting key words in the notes
Write an essay question and see if you have remembered all the points and examples listed Listening to the wider listening suggestions and seeing if you can recognise the key features listed and compare them to the piece
These notes are also really good for making revision cards from
They have served me well in my A Level music course and I hope they can be of benefit to you too!
There’s also plenty more where this came from, so please check out my other resources.
These notes will help you learn and revise Component 3 (Appraising) content for the A Level Music exam, specifically concerning the following work:
Lady Day and John Coltrane’, ‘Inner State of Mind’ and ‘Love and Affection’ from Back in the Day (2000) (Courtney Pine)
This resource includes:
Historical and stylistic context of the set work and key vocabulary.
Detailed key information regarding all musical elements relevant to the set work: sonority, instrumentation, texture, structure, melody, harmony, tonality, rhythm, metre, tempo and dynamics.
A* examples to give you an in-depth knowledge ready for essay and listening questions in the exam.
Relevant wider listening comparisons (both similarities and differences) which will be essential for higher level responses to an exam question.
Possible ways of revising this material include:
Highlighting key words in the notes
Write an essay question and see if you have remembered all the points and examples listed
Listening to the wider listening suggestions and seeing if you can recognise the key features listed and compare them to the piece
These notes are also really good for making revision cards from
They have served me well in my A Level music course and I hope they can be of benefit to you too!
There’s also plenty more where this came from, so please check out my other resources.
These notes will help you learn and revise Component 3 (Appraising) content for the A Level Music exam, specifically concerning the following work:
Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 17: Movement 1 (Clara Schumann)
This resource includes:
Historical and stylistic context of the set work and key vocabulary.
Detailed key information regarding all musical elements relevant to the set work: sonority, instrumentation, texture, structure, melody, harmony, tonality, rhythm, metre, tempo and dynamics.
A* examples to give you an in-depth knowledge ready for essay and listening questions in the exam.
Relevant wider listening comparisons (both similarities and differences) which will be essential for higher level responses to an exam question.
Possible ways of revising this material include:
Highlighting key words in the notes
Write an essay question and see if you have remembered all the points and examples listed
Listening to the wider listening suggestions and seeing if you can recognise the key features listed and compare them to the piece
These notes are also really good for making revision cards from
They have served me well in my A Level music course and I hope they can be of benefit to you too!
There’s also plenty more where this came from, so please check out my other resources.
Model IRP example based on the following question:
Les Français font le portrait de Charles de Gaulle comme un héros national : quelles preuves est ’ce qu’il y a pour appuyer ou contester ceci ?
They have served me well in my A Level French course and I hope they can be of benefit to you too!
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The Medical Applications of Physics sub-topic is an integral part to the GCSE Physics course, so revise it here with:
Key definitions and properties of Short Sight and Long Sight
Details about the effect on the eye and the lens
Clear diagrams
Details about Range of Vision
This has served me well in my GCSE course and I hope it can be of benefit to you too!
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This resource provides an in-depth lesson and homework task, experimental results and a detailed model answer in response to the following task:
To investigate the main changes in your body as a result of exercise and explain the physiological changes that are happening in your body and produce a report of your findings.
If you don’t wish to use this as a lesson resource, there is still plenty of information for revision purposes on:
Aerobic and Anaerobic Respiration
Heart Rate and Blood Pressure
Bones, Ligaments, Joins and Muscles
The cardiovascular system
The respiratory system
Injury from excessive exercise
This has served me well in my GCSE course and I hope it can be of benefit to you too!
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They have served me well in my A Level French course and I hope they can be of benefit to you too!
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Handwritten mind maps comparing Edexcel A level set works to each other and making wider listening links.
They contain:
Key notes facts and examples regarding all musical elements relevant to the set work: sonority, instrumentation, texture, structure, melody, harmony, tonality, rhythm, metre, tempo and dynamics.
Relevant wider listening comparisons (both similarities and differences) which will be essential for higher level responses to an exam question.
They have served me well in my A Level music course and I hope they can be of benefit to you too!
There’s also plenty more where this came from, so please check out my other resources.