This sheet is to be used alongside the Aural Help sheet for Grades 5, 6, 7 and 8. It provides a useful chart showing the features of each style and period, as well as suggested composers, as is required in the aural part of an ABRSM music examination. It would also be useful for use in the music classroom, in particular those studying for GCSE, As Level and A Level music.
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.
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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.
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Detailed Power Point with embedded audio & video clips to support the study of Film & Gaming Music for the GCSE specification.
Film Music section focuses on John Williams and Hans Zimmer. Listening questions are worded similar to a GCSE exam paper. An exam style question is also provided.
Gaming section looks at the early beginnings, Mario Kart and Assassin’s Creed.
This is a scheme of work for the Popular Music area of study for the EDUQAS GCSE.
Included in the pack of resources are:
Powerpoint(seperated by lesson. 14 lessons included)
Accompanying workbook for the students to use
Accompanying score for set work- Africa
Accompanying assessment booklet
Listening exercises (with listening tracks embedded in the powerpoint)
Exam style questions
Composition tasks
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!
Music Styles Word Search
The word search contains the different music styles throughout time! An answer sheet is included.
PRINTABLE FORMAT. Print and hand it out.
What’s included in this resource:
The word search contains the names of 30 different styles/genres of music.
ALSO INCLUDED: An answer key is included in the download!
The puzzle can be used as part of a sub lesson or as a springboard activity into a unit on the Music genres.
A content packed, valuable resource that is complete and ready to go!
Suitable for: Years 7-11
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A display resource for Eduqas GCSE Music including posters on: Aos 1, 2, 3, 4 and the two set works (Bach’s Badinerie & Toto’s Africa). All information is taken from Eduqas resources.
These cover worksheets are ideal for staff absences! All 8 require no prep, little/no technology, and are suitable for non-specialist teachers.
The worksheets have been designed with convenience in mind! Print and copy a class set of each and keep them handy with the overview sheets. Pupils answer on paper to save copying new sheets each time!
The overview sheets allows you or your substitute to see at-a-glance what classes have completed what sheets, and what tech/pupil knowledge is required for each so they can choose an activity suitable for them and the class.
Each worksheet should last a lesson, and there are suggestions of extension activities for fast finishers. They are suitable for a range of ages and abilities as I have used lots of open and general questions. The sheets are dyslexia-friendly with careful choice of layout and fonts. Pupils can work independently with no assistance from the teacher, perfect for non-specialists.
The worksheets cover a range of topics. Each has an icon in the corner to help you sort them quickly if they get mixed up. The range included means these can be used for General Music, Choir, Orchestra or a range of other music classes. They are aimed at years 7-9 /S1-3 BGE but are general enough to be used with older or younger classes too.
This set of sub sheets includes:
A Year of Music
A-Z Questions
Composer Profile
Film Music Moment
Plan a Jukebox Musical
Plan a Music Festival
Song Research Task
Stop the Bus
I really hope you find this product useful! I have used these successfully with my classes for years and they are so convenient for when I am absent or leaving classes to cover due to exams, concerts, shows and trips.
I recommend pairing this resource with my set of 16 music wordsearches!
Here is a cover resource on Pop Music legends The Beatles.
The resource contains a biography and a table of questions to be answered as well as suggested listening. It also includes an answer sheet.
This resource is ideal for cover work. A booklet of 5 such resources can be purchased for £3.50.
This resource/booklet was designed for a cover lesson. The booklet enables pupils to explore ‘Reggae Music’ through thoery and then through a range of given tasks;
Task 01 - Questions and answers (based on the given the theory).
Task 02 - “Three Little Birds” music score copying task - Pupils are given the music to “Three Little Birds” by Bob Marley and an empty music score to allow them to ‘practise’ copying the music notation.
I hope that this resources is useful.
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FORM in MUSIC: Binary, Ternary and Rondo.
Included in this resource:
Description and explanation,
Listening examples
Student review questions and
QR codes and clickable links leading to music examples.
An excellent teaching resource explaining THREE of the most common forms in music;
Binary
Ternary
Rondo
The file could be used as a series of individual lessons or to accompany a series of **THREE lessons on form **- one form per lesson.
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Suitable for: Years 7-11
A very valuable addition to your teaching resources!
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Hip Hop cover lesson, perfect for non music specialists.
It is 5 A4 sides with another side of 26 questions. All of the answers can be found in the main body of text.
Work should be completed on lined paper, or in their books.
The worksheet covers the development of hip hop, from the 1970’s with info on key artists, music technology used and the ‘golden age’ in the 90’s and issues with sampling/copyright.
A great worksheet if you are stuck for Year 9 cover work ideas at short notice!
Simple ideas to create a rondo form story about Vivaldi’s Spring 1 and then create music for this story.
For general teachers and music teachers in elementary schools.
Cover the history of country music all within this poster! Perfect for a music classroom or music display, these posters are part of our ‘All about genres’ series.
This is a fun revision resource to consolidate all subject content from Eduqas GCSE Music.
The quiz features 5 rounds of 20 multiple-choice questions which range from very easy to relatively difficult:
AoS1: Musical Forms and Devices
AoS2: Music for Ensemble
AoS3: Film Music
AoS4: Popular Music
Answers are highlighted in green immediately after the questions. Can be done in teams or individually. Aiming to be a bit of light relief to the students who have been revising hard!
Please note that the PowerPoint will not work on Google Slides, only on Microsoft PowerPoint
A powerpoint presentation aimed at Introducing Year 12 students to the development of Western Classical music. This could also be used with GCSE classes. Use alongside listening examples of your choice.
An A4 sheet of key features of styles of music - cut the sheet up and have pupils put them together. Can be used either as a starter or as a revision part of a lesson. You can edit/add/delete features to tailor it to your class.