EDUQAS GCSE MUSIC – PRACTICE / MOCK EXAM PAPER – WITH SCORES This is the fourth in a series of full practice papers for Eduqas GCSE Music, perfect for a mock exam, or just extra exam practice. This exam is written to practise questions that use SCORES. All eight questions have accompanying skeleton scores, with questions focussing on these, as well as more general listening. Eight questions, covering all Areas of Study, but not including the set works (JS Bach and Toto, as these are covered extensively elsewhere), or an essay. The questions include a wide range of music, written and/or performed by: Ralph Vaughan Williams Joseph Haydn Julie Andrews Count Basie John Williams Henry Mancini Dionne Warwick Sparks All questions include a slightly shorter dictation (4-marks), including melodic and rhythmic, and there is lots of practice on cadences, and comparisons between sections. The document comes complete with: • YouTube links with exact timings for all musical examples • Full and detailed mark scheme • Perfect for printing on double-sided A3 sheets. This TES bundle includes: • PDF of the Question Paper and Mark Scheme together • PDF of just the Question Paper (in case you need to set it remotely) • PDF of just the Mark Scheme (ditto) • A guide to accessing the free audio (timed and edited mp3) Please have a look at my other GCSE Music resources. Thank you!

EDUQAS GCSE MUSIC - AFRICA BY TOTO LESSON 3 - HARMONY AND TONALITY 26-page PPT and accompanying PDF workbook. Third in a series of six lessons designed to cover every aspect of the set work, Africa by Toto. Lesson 3 focusses on Harmony and Tonality, looking at the chord sequences of the Verses, Choruses, comparing and contrasting them. There is discussion of slash chords, and extended harmony, and clear examples are given, alongside numerous mini-tests. There is a 10-mark exam-style question at the end, to consolidate the learning. Please see my TES shop for other resources designed to support the Eduqas GCSE course.

EDUQAS GCSE MUSIC - PRACTICE / MOCK EXAM PAPER This is the second in a series of full practice papers for Eduqas GCSE Music, perfect for a mock exam, or just extra exam practice. In the wake of the announcement on 7th February 2022, that there would be questions on: • JS Bach Badinerie Part B • Romantic Music • Vocal Ensembles • Film Music essay • Toto Africa Verse 2 and Chorus 2 • Pop …this paper covers all those areas, with questions on orchestral music, musicals, jazz, film music and pop. The document comes complete with: • YouTube links with exact timings for all musical examples • Full and detailed mark scheme • Perfect for printing on double-sided A3 sheets.

Ten Sample Assessments for the Eduqas A Level Area of Study D. Five Question 5s (10-mark) Five Question 6s (20-mark) Full mark schemes, and YouTube links with timings. Written by former BBC Radio 3, and current BBC Radio 2 Jazz producer. Please also see the resource “JAZZ - Ten MORE Sample Assessments”.

OCR GCSE MUSIC - PRACTICE / MOCK EXAM PAPER UPDATE (June 2022): the YouTube audio for Q3 has been removed from YouTube for licensing reasons beyond the author’s control. Please contact the author (email address in the PDF) for a quick and easy solution to this problem. This is a full practice paper for OCR GCSE Music, perfect for a mock exam, or just extra exam practice. In the wake of the announcement on 7th February 2022, that there would be questions on: AoS2: The Concerto Through Time • The Classical Concerto • The Romantic Concerto AoS3: Rhythms of the World • India and Punjab • Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East AoS4: Film Music • Music that has been composed specifically for a film (extended response) • Music that has been composed specifically for a film AoS5: Conventions of Pop • Rock 'n’ Roll of the 1950s and 1960s • Pop Ballads of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s (part extended response) …this paper covers all those areas. The document comes complete with: YouTube links with exact timings for all musical examples Full and detailed mark scheme A 24-page mock paper, perfect for printing on five double-sided A3 sheets. UPDATE (June 2022): the YouTube audio for Q3 has been removed from YouTube for licensing reasons beyond the author’s control. Please contact the author (email address in the PDF) for a solution to this problem.

AN END-OF-UNIT PRACTICE PAPER, COMPRESSED INTO ONE LESSON A quick (55’) exam-practice sample assessment containing 20 separate pieces of music, that can be done within one (60’) lesson. This paper focuses on Area of Study 2: Music for Ensemble, and includes essays, dictation and comparisons. 20 separate extracts of music covering all topics within Area of Study 2 Jazz Blues Musical Theatre Chamber Music Questions include: 3 Dictation questions 3 Comparison questions 3 Essay questions (1 x Jazz, 1 x Musical Theatre, 1 x Chamber Music) Each question is worth five marks, rather than the usual 12, and contains shorter extracts, each played twice. This is perfect as an end-of-unit assessment, to give students practice at exam questions, but testing them on just one Area of Study. This TES bundle includes: PDF of all 20 Questions and Mark Scheme PDF of just the 20 Questions (in case you need to set these remotely) PDF of just the Mark Scheme (ditto) Information about accessing the audio Extracts include music by Nina Simone, Tim Minchin, Billie Holiday, Haydn, Corelli, Jackie Wilson, Barbra Streisand, Japan, Alan Menken, Gerry Mulligan, LaVern Baker, and Shostakovich, Kurt Weill, and Rodgers & Hammerstein. This would also work well for Year 10s, as an introduction to exam-style questioning. A full, free audio file is available from the author. Please have a look at my other GCSE Music resources. Thank you!

50 questions on JS Bach’s Badinerie (Part B) In the 2022 GCSE Music exam, question 1 will be on JS Bach’s Badinerie, Part B. Here are 50 1-mark questions, designed to cover everything that I believe could come up in the exam. Some questions are similar (eg identifying cadences and keys), and the questions are in no particular order, so that students don’t go onto auto pilot. Includes full score, link to the audio, and full mark scheme. Bundle contains: Full document (Questions, Score, and Mark Scheme) Questions and score only Mark scheme and score only …so that you can send to students to work on remotely if necessary.

FOUR PRACTICE COMPARISON QUESTIONS These questions were written to provide authentic examples of the comparison questions found in Eduqas GCSE Music exams (ie finding similarities and differences between extracts). They cover all four Areas of Study. Each question contains two extracts of music. The total duration of all four tests, including silences, is 43’05", perfect for a single period assessment These questions contain music by Beethoven, Björk, Chuck Berry, Lavern Baker, Aerosmith, and more! This pack contains one document with questions and answers, and separate documents for just the questions (incl. YouTube links), and just the answers, in case teachers want to set the exercises as homework. The document comes complete with: YouTube links with exact timings for all musical examples Full mark scheme Perfect for printing on double-sided A3 sheets. Please contact the author for details of a free audio file.

EIGHT PRACTICE DICTATION QUESTIONS These dictation tests were written to provide authentic examples of the 5-mark dictation questions found in Eduqas GCSE Music exams. They cover the four Areas of Study, with a focus on the focus areas announced on 7th February 2022: Romantic Music Vocal Ensembles Film Music Popular music The questions come in groups of four, one for each of the categories above, and each group of four features music by musicians whose names begin with the same letter. In this pack, the musicians’ names begin with the letters A and B. The main feature of all these shorter questions is dictation, to help students practice this type of exam question, worth five marks. I have added a few additional shorter questions, totalling three additional marks, so that every question is worth eight marks, rather than the 12 in the actual exam. As these are shorter questions, to focus on dictation, the extracts are shorter (generally 20–25 seconds long), and there is less time after the question for students to complete their answers. Each listening test is approx. 5’30"-6’00" long. This pack contains one document with questions and answers, and separate documents for just the questions (incl. YouTube links), and just the answers, in case teachers want to set the exercises as homework. The document comes complete with: YouTube links with exact timings for all musical examples Full mark scheme Perfect for printing on double-sided A3 sheets.

50 questions on Africa by Toto (Verse 2 and Chorus 2) Here are 50 short questions, mostly 1-mark, designed to cover everything that could be asked about Verse 2 and Chorus 2 of Africa by Toto. Includes full score, link to the audio, and full mark scheme. Bundle contains: Full document (Questions, Score, and Mark Scheme) Questions and score only Mark scheme and score only …so that you can send to students to work on remotely if necessary.

Sonority – Instrument Recognition Questions The GCSE Music Specification includes many terms that students need to know, and be able to identify, but which aren’t covered by many of the styles of music studied. Using only music from Popular Music, this revision resource brings together every instrument, voice and ensemble (apart from “basso continuo”, for obvious reasons!) from the sub-menu “Sonority”, ie instruments, voices, and ensembles. In order to be accessible to students who really struggle with such things, there are 50 simple, 1-mark questions, which ask students to identify an instrument, voice type, or ensemble. In addition, there is also a bonus question alongside every simple question, for students who find such things easier – so 100 questions in total! So that the first group of students don’t feel like they’re underachieving, there are two different PDFs: one with just the 50 simple questions, and one with the bonus questions as well, so teachers can choose which to give their students. The questions are in ten sections: Strings Woodwind Brass Percussion Keyboards Rock and Pop Indian Voices Miscellaneous Ensembles The resource comes with a link to FREE audio, running for 1h15’, either as one file or ten separate files: perfect for a revision lesson, or as homework. The extracts cover a wide range of Popular Music, and features music by the likes of Eva Cassidy, Led Zeppelin, Björk, Yes, Primus, Tanita Tikaram, The Meters, Minnie Riperton, Tom Waits, Genesis, Jamiroquai, Badly Drawn Boy, Freak Power, Blood, Sweat & Tears, and The Cure! The bundle includes the full paper and mark scheme, plus two PDFs of questions (50, or 100), and mark scheme separately, in case you want to set it remotely. Please have a look at my shop for a wide variety of resources to support the GCSE Music course. www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/NPTJ

EDUQAS GCSE MUSIC – HIP HOP (AoS4) A PowerPoint and accompanying Student Workbook, designed to take students through the genre of Hip Hop, all within the context of listening practice, and exam-style questioning. This is Lesson 5 of a series, exploring all the Eduqas-prescribed genres of Popular music, and as such, the listening exercises are between 6 and 8 marks. This helps teachers who are less-familiar with the style, and are uncertain of which examples to use. The PPT also includes explanations of terms from Eduqas’ Appendix C: Sampling Reverb Phasing Looping Panning Balance Listening exercises on songs by: Biz Markie Akala Queen Latifah A Tribe Called Quest …and more. Please see my TES shop for other PPTs and Workbooks in the Popular Music series, coving all prescribed styles for the Eduqas GCSE Music.

The most thorough and detailed analysis of Africa by Toto available, the only analysis written in connection with the Full Score, enabling both teacher and student to understand the song fully. It has been written in an engaging and approachable manner, with full, detailed explanations of the song’s harmony, structure and individual instruments’ roles, using musical examples not available anywhere else. This is the only analysis you will need in order to get inside one of the greatest songs ever written. This analysis references the full score, transcribed by Patrick Johns, available on Sheet Music Plus. (For copyright reasons, it can’t be sold on TES).

EDUQAS GCSE MUSIC – REGGAE (AoS4) A PowerPoint and accompanying Student Workbook, designed to take students through the genre of Reggae, all within the context of listening practice, and exam-style questioning. This is Lesson 3 of a series, exploring all the Eduqas-prescribed genres of Popular music, and as such, the listening exercises are between 3 and 5 marks. This helps teachers who are less-familiar with the style, and are uncertain of which examples to use. Listening exercises on songs by: Bob Marley and the Wailers Millie Small The Jamaicans PPT and Workbook both have YouTube links, with timings. Please see my TES shop for other PPTs and Workbooks in the Popular Music series, coving all prescribed styles for the Eduqas GCSE Music.

Melody, Metre and Texture - Revision Questions The GCSE Music course includes many terms that students need to know, and be able to identify, but which aren’t regularly covered by many of the styles of music studied. This revision resource brings together many of the key musical terms from these three areas of GCSE Music: Melody Metre Texture There are 20 questions, totalling 60 marks. The assessment comes with a link to FREE audio, running for 40 minutes: just press play! Perfect for a revision lesson, or as homework, or to set for some students when you need to speak to others individually. The extracts feature a wide range of music by Toots Thielemans, Norah Jones, Don Ellis, Fauré, John Tavener, Nancy Sinatra, Schubert, and many more. The bundle includes the full paper and mark scheme, plus the questions and mark scheme separately, in case you want to set it remotely. Please have a look at my shop for a wide variety of resources to support the GCSE course. www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/NPTJ NB This resource was originally written to support the Eduqas GCSE course, and is the same as the one with “Eduqas” in the title in the TES shop.

AN END-OF-UNIT PRACTICE PAPER, COMPRESSED INTO ONE LESSON A quick (53’) exam-practice sample assessment containing 20 separate pieces of music, that can be done within one (60’) lesson. This paper focuses on Area of Study 1: Musical Forms and Devices, and includes essays, dictation and comparisons. 20 separate extracts of music covering all topics within Area of Study 1 5 Questions on JS Bach’s Badinerie 5 Questions on Baroque Music 5 Questions on Classical Music 5 Questions on Romantic Music Questions include: 3 Dictation questions 3 Comparison questions 3 Essay questions (1 x Baroque, 1 x Classical, 1 x Romantic) Each question is worth five marks, rather than the usual 12, and contains shorter extracts, each played twice. This is perfect as an end-of-unit assessment, to give students practice at exam questions, but testing them on just one Area of Study. This TES bundle includes: PDF of all 20 Questions and Mark Scheme PDF of just the 20 Questions (in case you need to set these remotely) PDF of just the Mark Scheme (ditto) Information about accessing the audio Extracts include music by Haydn, Fauré, Vivaldi, Berlioz, Stamitz, Dvorak and Ditters von Dittersdorf. This would also work well for Year 10s, as an introduction to exam-style questioning. A full, free, audio file is available from the author. Please have a look at my other GCSE Music resources. Thank you!

Harmony, Form and Structure The GCSE Music Specification includes many terms that students need to know, and be able to identify, but which aren’t covered by many of the styles of music studied. Many students struggle with recognising musical elements, especially cadences, chord inversions, and other elements of harmony, form and structure, so this resource comprises 17 short extracts of music, five of which have skeleton scores, as in the exam. Each extract has four questions attached, covering all the terms associated with Harmony, Form and Structure: HARMONY Primary chords Secondary chords Inversion Diatonic Tonic Subdominant Dominant (7th) Perfect cadence Imperfect cadence Plagal cadence Interrupted cadence Chord progression/chord sequence Harmonic rhythm Drone Pedal Dissonance Power chords FORM AND STRUCTURE Binary Ternary Rondo Minuet and Trio Repetition Contrast Theme and variations Strophic 32 bar song form/AABA 12 bar Blues Call and response Ostinato Bridge Break Loop Improvisation Verse Chorus Middle 8 Fill Introduction Outro Coda Riff Regular phrasing Irregular phrasing The extracts cover a wide range of music, featuring the likes of Joan Jett, Mahler, Primus, Jimmy Rushing, Mel Tormé, Carly Simon, Henry Mancini, Katrina & the Waves, and Blu Cantrell. The resource comes with a link to FREE audio, running for 38’20”. The bundle includes the full paper and mark scheme, plus the PDF question paper and mark scheme separately, in case you want to set it remotely. Please have a look at my shop for a wide variety of resources to support the GCSE Music course. www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/NPTJ

FOUR PRACTICE COMPARISON QUESTIONS These questions were written to provide authentic examples of the comparison questions found in OCR GCSE Music exams (ie finding similarities and differences between extracts). They cover all four Areas of Study. Each question contains two extracts of music. The total duration of all four tests, including silences, is c40 minutes, perfect for a single period assessment These questions contain music by Beethoven, Björk, Chuck Berry, Lavern Baker, Small Island Pride, and more! This pack contains one document with questions and answers, and separate documents for just the questions (incl. YouTube links), and just the answers, in case teachers want to set the exercises as homework. The document comes complete with: YouTube links with exact timings for all musical examples Full mark scheme Perfect for printing on double-sided A3 sheets. Please contact the author for details of a free audio file.

Musical Styles – Tonality – Tempo – Rhythm – Dynamics The GCSE Music Specification includes many terms that students need to know, and be able to identify, but which aren’t covered by many of the styles of music studied. Many students struggle with recognising musical elements on a printed score, so this resource comprises 20 short extracts of music, 17 of which have skeleton scores, as in the exam. Each extract has four questions attached, covering the terms associated with: Musical Styles Tonality Tempo Rhythm Dynamics The extracts cover a wide range of music, featuring music from the likes of Abba, Count Basie, Anthrax, Tupac, Berlioz, Whitney Houston, Al Green, JS Bach, Pluto Shervington, Sting, and Dame Judi Dench! The resource comes with a link to FREE audio, running for 37’, either as one file or 20 separate files: perfect for a revision lesson, or as homework. The bundle includes the full paper and mark scheme, plus the PDF question paper and mark scheme separately, in case you want to set it remotely. Please have a look at my shop for a wide variety of resources to support the GCSE Music course. www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/NPTJ

EDUQAS GCSE MUSIC – SOUL (AoS4) A PowerPoint and accompanying Student Workbook, designed to take students through the genre of Soul, all within the context of listening practice, and exam-style questioning. This is Lesson 4 of a series, exploring all the Eduqas-prescribed genres of Popular music, and as such, the listening exercises are between 6 and 10 marks. This helps teachers who are less-familiar with the style, and are uncertain of which examples to use. Listening exercises on songs by: Etta James Otis Redding Barry White Billy Joel Marvin Gaye PPT and Workbook both have ad-free YouTube links, with timings. NB If the links say that YouTube can’t find the video, just refresh, and it appears. (Don’t ask me why!) Please see my TES shop for other PPTs and Workbooks in the Popular Music series, coving all prescribed styles for the Eduqas GCSE Music.