Music Summer Quiz
12 Rounds
Introductions
Tv themes
Eurovision
Classical Covers
Languages
Live Lounge
2023 Hits
Video Games
Coronation Performers
8-bit Covers
Songs For Film
Artist A-Z
19 complete individual booklets on all areas of study.
Each booklet has information and context features of each genre, composition tasks, performance pieces, practice exam style questions and a wider listening checklist.
So much core information within booklets that this could be delivered by a non-specialist!
AoS1:
The Coronation Anthems and Oratorios of Handel
Classical Music of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven
Romantic Piano Music of Chopin and Schumann
The Romantic Requiem (Verdi and Faure)
AOS2:
The Music of Broadway
Rock Music of the 70s and 80s
Film and Computer Game Music
Popular Music of the 90s to present
AOS3:
The Blues
African Fusion (Paul Simon)
Caribbean Fusion (Reggae)
Contemporary Latin Music (Santana and Buena Vista Social Club)
Contemporary Folk Music
AOS4:
The Orchestral Music of Aaron Copland
The British Music of Taverner, Arnold, Britten and Maxwell-Davies
The Hungarian Music of Kodaly and Bartok
Minimalism (Reich, Riley and Adams)
As well as revision cards of the conventions of each genre.
Booklets for AQA GCSE Music
Area of Study 2: Popular Music
Five separate booklets
Topics:
Key terminology for AoS2
Broadway
Rock music of the 70s and 80s
Film and computer game music
Pop music
Includes:
Information
Composition activities
Performance pieces
Practice exam questions
Wider listening checklist
Booklets for AQA GCSE Music
Area of Study 3: Western Classical from 1910
Four separate booklets
Topics:
Aaron Copland
British Music (Maxwell-Davies, Taverner, Britten and Arnold)
Hungarian Music (Kodaly and Bartok)
Minimalism (Riley, Reich, Adams)
Includes
Information
Composition activities
Performance pieces
Practice exam questions
Wider listening checklist
A listening based music Christmas quiz.
8 rounds:
1 - Artists
2 - Reverse
3 - Pictures
4 - Xmas Number 1’s Through The Decades
5 - Languages
6 - Emojis
7 - 8-bit
8 - Christmas Classics
All audio files embedded in PPT
Visually aesthetic
PDF student sheet
PDF answer sheet
A listening based music Christmas quiz.
10 rounds:
1 - Christmas Covers
2 - Christmas Films
3 - Multiple Choice - How Many Times Does The Song Say “Christmas”?
4 - AI Cartoon Covers
5 - Picture Round
6 - 2024 Adverts (with embedded videos)
7 - Drums n Bass
8 - Connections
9 - 8-Bit Covers
10 - Christmas Pop
All audio files embedded in PPT
Visually aesthetic
PDF student sheet
Powerpoint
Revision Cards
Key Questions for analytical listening
Based on conventions of each era (3 and 4 mark questions) of ALL areas of study:
Baroque
Classical
Romantic Piano
Romantic Requiem
Broadway
Film and Gaming
Rock Music
Popular Music
Blues
Reggae
African Fusion
Latin
Folk
Copland
Contemporary British Music
Hungarian
Minimalism
Powerpoint includes: history of slavery, African music, blues, jazz, different styles of jazz, jazz instruments, 12 bar blues and walking bassline composing task on Logic.
Worksheet includes: jazz reading comprehension text and questions, assessment level sheet and a DIRT (directed improvement reflection time) listening task.
Ideal for homelearning, cover or teaching in the classroom. Designed with no equipment in mind, so can be adapted to specialist or non-specialist classrooms.
Each powerpoint has accompanying activities.
Bundle includes:
Carnival of the Animals - Saint-Saens
Danse Macabre - Saint-Saens
Peter and the Wolf - Prokofiev
Pictures at an Exhibition - Mussorgsky
The Planets - Holst
Designed for the RSL Music Practitioners course.
Can be used as a two-year course booklet or lots of stand-alone worksheets. Suitable for cover.
Includes research tasks, listening tasks, contextual history, fill the blanks, composition planning and directed tasks.
Topics include:
Instruments, Elements of Music, Functions of a DAW, Blues, Jazz, Rock n Roll, 50s Record Companies, Soul, Reggae, Rock, Punk, Pop-Punk, New Wave, 80s Synth Pop, Grunge, Hip-Hop, Rap, Latin Pop, Contemporary Folk, Indie Rock, RnB, 90s House Music, Progressive House, Tropical House, Garage, Dubstep, Drum and Bass, Electronica, Eurodance, Pop, Boybands and Girlbands, Grime, Synths Through Time, Drum Machines Through Time, Samplers Through Time, Guitar Techniques and Effects, Mixing Desks, Mixing Music (Filters, EQ), Recording and Distribution, Preparing Equipment in Recording Sessions, Microphone Types, Polar Patterns, Recording Vocals, Microphone Placement (Acoustic & Electric Guitars, Piano, Drums), Planning a Recording Session.
Six lessons worth of video game music (possibly more as based on 100 minute lessons). There is a focus on compositional devices in a video game setting, with the end product being a video game composition.
Lesson 1 - Intro to video game music, consoles through time, keyboard skills
Lesson 2 - Fanfares in video games, composing a fanfare
Lesson 3 - Ostinatos
Lesson 4 - Call and Response and Sequences
Lesson 5 - Listening Assessment and composition
Lesson 6 - Composition assessment
Resource package has all PowerPoints, worksheets and sheet music
Can be used in the classroom or as homelearning. Applicable to all GCSE music exam boards.
Powerpoints with information of all key words on the following elements:
Dynamics
Harmony
Melody
Metre
Rhythm
Sonority/Timbre/Effects
Structure
Tempo
Texture
Tonality
This resource comes with a student booklet and an accompanying teacher booklet with answers focused on the Level 2 BTEC Tech Award for Music Practice. This resource is aimed at learners who are more technology based.
Booklet includes:
A baseline assessment
Music instruments and music elements
Note reading
Tech FX
Component 1: different styles for each grouping with a MADTSHIRT analysis of sonic and compositional features, example pieces, example artists, retrieval questions and listening pieces.
Western Traditions: Minimalism, Delta Blues, Swing
50s, 60s, 70s: Rock n Roll, Motown, Punk, Reggae
80s, 90s, 2000s: Britpop, Nu Metal, Garage, Reggaeton
World Music: Samba, African, Bhangra
30 second composition, DAW sequencing (with sheet music), horror film composition with log books to support with commentaries.
Component 2: 3 minute composition, planning a composition, production task, tech FX, microphone types, recording on Logic, how to mix, with logbook to support commentaries.
Component 3: how to respond to a brief, chords, note pages.
Booklets for AQA GCSE Music
Area of Study 3: Traditional Music
Topics:
The Blues
African Fusion
Caribbean Fusion (Reggae)
Contemporary Latin
Contemporary Folk Music
Includes:
Information
Composition activities
Performance pieces
Practice exam questions
Wider listening checklist
AQA GCSE music workbooks / booklets.
Area of Study 1:Western Classical Tradition
Five separate booklets
Topics:
Introduction to GCSE Music with music theory and key terminology
The coronation anthems and oratorios of Handel
Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven
Romantic Piano music (Chopin and Schumann)
Romantic Requiems
Includes:
Information and stylistic conventions
Composition activities
Performance pieces
Practice exam questions
Wider listening checklist