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Resources include lesson plans for KS3-5 Music lessons and PSHEE, software guides, chords and lyrics for songs and, more recently, sheet music of own choral compositions.

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Resources include lesson plans for KS3-5 Music lessons and PSHEE, software guides, chords and lyrics for songs and, more recently, sheet music of own choral compositions.
Music: Periods of Music Handbook
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Music: Periods of Music Handbook

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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
Eduqas: A Level Music: Mendelssohn 4: Q12: 1st movement score reading questions
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Eduqas: A Level Music: Mendelssohn 4: Q12: 1st movement score reading questions

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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.
Eduqas Music  A Level Question 1 Rock and Pop Listening Questions
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Eduqas Music A Level Question 1 Rock and Pop Listening Questions

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5x sets of questions, mark schemes and audio files for practice of Question 1 (Rock and Pop) of the Eduqas Music A Level exam. The files are Word documents so you can edit and tweak them. Any feedback would be much appreciated, thank you. I’ve added, and will continue to add, more Eduqas listening resources.
Music: Short composition practice tasks
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Music: Short composition practice tasks

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These are designed for students to practise (either on Sibelius or by hand) making chords such as; Major chords Minor chords Augmented chords Cadences Dominant 7ths Neapolitan 6ths Extended Any feedback on these would be much appreciated. I’ve uploaded both the pdfs and the Sibelius files. More resources available on my page.
Bach Chorale Handbook: Edexcel Music  A Level
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Bach Chorale Handbook: Edexcel Music A Level

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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.
Devices
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Devices

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

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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!
Stravinsky - Musical Checkpoints
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Stravinsky - Musical Checkpoints

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A list of the musical checkpoints of the Symphony of Psalms by Stravinsky. 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.
Skyfall - Adele; chords and lyrics
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Skyfall - Adele; chords and lyrics

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Useful for a class band lessons - chords and lyrics put together in a powerpoint presentation; students can read lyrics, chords and bass notes from screen. Any feedback would be great, thanks!