<p><strong>Knowledge Organisers for GCSE Music listening and appraising exam</strong></p> <p>Divided up into MAD T-SHIRTS acronym:</p> <p>Melody<br /> Articulation<br /> Dynamics<br /> Texture<br /> Structure<br /> Harmony &amp; Tonality<br /> Instrumentation<br /> Rhythm &amp; Tempo<br /> Time Signature / Metre<br /> Style</p>

<p>35 GCSE Music Listening &amp; Appraising Questions</p> <p>A range of listening exam-style questions that could be used in the classroom or as homework.<br /> Questions are linked to the genres highlighted in the Eduqas specification but would be relevant to any specification’s unfamiliar listening.</p> <p>Edit: I’ve just added an answer booklet (28/04/20)</p>

<p>A series of listening &amp; appraising questions that pupils can complete whilst watching the 2021 movie adaptation of the musical West Side Story.</p> <p>Links to: dynamic markings, Italian tempo markings, texture (monophonic, melody &amp; accompaniment, etc.), families of instruments, tonality (major, minor, atonal) and other general listening.</p> <p>Useful if put into a room change with no instruments or simply wanting to introduce pupils to a musical &amp; have productive, listening work to complete.</p>

<p>An introduction (or reintroduction) to listening and appraising using tier 3 language, encouraging pupils to “talk like a musician”…<br /> *Italian tempo markings<br /> *Italian dynamic markings<br /> *Major/Minor/Atonal tonality<br /> *Instrumentation<br /> *Texture: Monophonic/Polyphonic/Melody&amp;Accompaniment/Call &amp; Response</p> <p>Full MTP, workbook, ppts &amp; listening assessments that can be delivered in 6 lessons. Listening do-nows in workbooks for every lesson too.</p> <p>Audio based on a wide variety of genres, some linked to model music curriculum recommended listening.</p> <p>By the end pupils have listened to a huge variety of music to practice listening for the terminology they are being taught.</p> <p>All listening and appraising tasks have excerpts embedded in ppts - link to audio via Googledrive included.</p>

<p>A series of listening &amp; appraising questions that pupils can complete whilst watching the 2021 movie adaptation of the musical In The Heights.</p> <p>Links to: dynamic markings, Italian tempo markings, texture (monophonic, melody &amp; accompaniment, etc.), families of instruments, tonality (major, minor, atonal) and other general listening.</p> <p>Useful if put into a room change with no instruments or simply wanting to introduce pupils to a musical &amp; have productive, listening work to complete.</p>

<p>Three Lions keyboard sheet with chorus melody line notated and pitches added, as well as simple triads added.</p>

This is a little parody song my class worked on as revision for their Edexcel GCSE course. It has proved a really useful way of remembering some of the key information and developing literacy skills. A pupil recorded themselves to model the task for other classes. It is sung to the song 'Do you want to build a snowman?'

<p>Here are parts we have created for KS3 pupils to perform &amp; record themselves as part of a DAW project on ‘All Of Me’ by John Legend. These can be printed onto A3 paper/card &amp; used in the classroom.</p> <p>The parts are:</p> <p>1 - Bass Line (simple semibreves)<br /> 2 - Chords (Simplified triads in root position)<br /> 3 - Chords (Triads in different inversions)<br /> 4 - Melody ( Tune &amp; intro pattern)</p> <p>Also included is the sibelius file from which these parts have been taken.</p> <p>Hope others might find them useful.</p>