A pack of TEN sample listening assessments, formatted in the manner of Eduqas, complete with mark scheme, timings, and YouTube links. Please visit my TES shop for many more resources connected with Africa by Toto, and the Eduqas GCSE course. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/NPTJ

EDUQAS GCSE MUSIC – PRACTICE / MOCK EXAM PAPER This is the third in a series of full practice papers for Eduqas GCSE Music, perfect for a mock exam, or just extra exam practice. Eight questions, covering all Areas of Study, including the set works, by JS Bach and Toto, as well as Musical Theatre, Jazz. The questions include a wide range of music by Beethoven, Marvin Gaye, Buddy Rich, Dudley Moore, Tom Waits, and Korngold. Includes an essay question (not on Film Music!), a comparison question, and dictation. 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 4 - MELODY 38-page PPT and accompanying PDF workbook. Fourth in a series of five lessons designed to cover every aspect of the set work, Africa by Toto. Lesson 4 focusses on the melody of the Verses, Choruses, Riff B, Synth Solo, Electric Guitar, and the use of backing vocals. Clear examples are given, alongside numerous mini-tests, and 1-point questions. 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.

A WHOLE PRACTICE PAPER COMPRESSED INTO ONE LESSON A quick, exam-practice sample assessment containing 20 separate pieces of music, that can be done within one (60’) lesson. **20 separate extracts of music covering all four Areas of Study! 20 QUICK QUESTIONS 1–5: AoS1 Forms and Devices 6–10: AoS2 Music for Ensemble 11–15: AoS3 Film Music 16–20: AoS4 Popular Music Each question is worth four marks, rather than the usual 12, and contains shorter extracts, each played twice. The idea is to get as much exam practice done across all four Areas of Study, but within one lesson. Questions include: Dictation Comparison All the musical elements covered 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 Author’s email address for help with the audio Extracts include music by Elgar, Saint-Saens, Harry Connick Jr, Billie Holiday, Tiomkin, Rachel Portman, Groove Armada, Duran Duran and Dua Lipa. This would also work well for Year 10s, as an introduction to exam-style questioning. Audio solution available by contacting the author. Please have a look at my other GCSE Music resources. Thank you!

Ten sample listening tests for Area of Study 4 - Popular Music. Written in the style of the Eduqas GCSE Music exam. All styles listed in the Specification are covered: Rock, Soul, Hip Hop, Reggae, Ballads, Pop, Bhangra, Fusions, and a Comparison question. Artists covered include Aretha Franklin, Gnarls Barkley, The Police, A Tribe Called Quest and Earth, Wind & Fire. Written by BBC Radio 2 and 3 producer, subject expert (Ofqual and Trinity), professional musician, and classroom teacher. Please look at my other resources (Africa by Toto, and Jazz) on TES. Thank you for your interest. NB This is the slightly updated version of the resource (Feb 2022).

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.

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!

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!

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

OCR GCSE MUSIC - PRACTICE / MOCK EXAM PAPER / FOCUS ON SCORES This is a full practice paper for OCR GCSE Music, perfect for a mock exam, or just extra exam practice. The main difference is that every question has a score, to focus on questions using notation, which can be an area of weakness for some students. The exam lasts c1h15’. Taking into account the topics that have come up in recent years, this exam covers the following: AoS2: The Concerto Through Time • Classical Concerto • Romantic Concerto AoS3: Rhythms of the World • Calypso • Eastern Mediterranean AoS4: Film Music • Music that has been composed specifically for a film (x2) AoS5: Conventions of Pop • Rock Anthems • Solo Artists The exam includes music by Vaughan Williams, Dionne Warwick, Duke of Iron, Henry Mancini, Sparks, and more! The document comes complete with: • YouTube links with exact timings for all musical examples • Full and detailed mark scheme • An 18-page mock paper, perfect for printing on five double-sided A3 sheets. A free, fully edited, timed, voiced mp3 to accompany this exam is available directly from the author. Please visit my shop to see other resources, including OCR GCSE Music Papers A, B and C, and Dictation Practice Questions. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/NPTJ

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.

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

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.

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.

This is a PowerPoint version of the full, accurate, detailed analysis of Africa by Toto, available on TES as a PDF. It covers all aspects of the song Africa, part of the Eduqas GCSE Music syllabus. Harmony, arrangement, voicings, structure - everything is explained in accessible detail, with bespoke musical examples unavailable elsewhere (except the PDF, of course!). Written in conjunction with the Ten Sample Listening Tests (available on TES) and the Full Score (available on Sheet Music Plus, for copyright reasons).

EIGHT PRACTICE DICTATION QUESTIONS These dictation tests provide authentic examples of the dictation questions found in GCSE Music exams. They cover various styles and genres of music: Orchestral and Choral Music Jazz and Popular Song Film Music Pop music (ballads) 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. 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. NB These questions are also released as “GCSE Music Dictation Practice Tests [Eduqas]”, as they were originally written with a focus on the Eduqas syllabus.

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.

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.

OCR GCSE MUSIC - PRACTICE / MOCK EXAM PAPER This is a full practice paper for OCR GCSE Music, perfect for a mock exam, or just extra exam practice. The exam lasts 1h15’. Taking into account the topics that have come up in recent years, this exam covers the following: AoS2: The Concerto Through Time Baroque Concerto Romantic Concerto AoS3: Rhythms of the World Samba Calypso (extended response) AoS4: Film Music Music that has been composed as a soundtrack for a video game Music that has been composed specifically for a film AoS5: Conventions of Pop Ballads of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s (part extended response) Rock ’n’ Roll of the 1950s and 1960s The exam includes music by Elgar, Dolly Parton, Winifred Phillips, Erich Korngold, The King, Leopold Mozart, and more! The document comes complete with: YouTube links with exact timings for all musical examples Full and detailed mark scheme An 18-page mock paper, perfect for printing on five double-sided A3 sheets. A free, fully edited, timed, voiced mp3 to accompany this exam is available directly from the author. Please visit my shop to see other resources, including OCR GCSE Music Papers A and B, and Dictation Practice Questions.

**OCR GCSE MUSIC - PRACTICE / MOCK EXAM PAPER ** This is a full practice paper for OCR GCSE Music, perfect for a mock exam, or just extra exam practice. Taking into account the topics that have come up in recent years, this exam covers the following: AoS2: The Concerto Through Time The Baroque Solo Concerto The Baroque Concerto Grosso AoS3: Rhythms of the World Indian Classical Music Israeli Folk Dance AoS4: Film Music Music that has been composed as a soundtrack for a video game (extended response) Music that has been composed specifically for a film AoS5: Conventions of Pop Rock Anthems of the 1970s and 1980s (part extended response) Solo Artists from 1990 to the present day The exam includes music by JS Bach, Rachel Portman, Gurdev Singh, Taylor Swift, Grant Kirkhope, and more! The document comes complete with: YouTube links with exact timings for all musical examples Full and detailed mark scheme A 16-page mock paper, perfect for printing on four double-sided A3 sheets. A full edited, timed, voiced mp3 to accompany this exam is available directly from the author. Please visit my shop to see other resources, including OCR GCSE Music Paper A, and Dictation Practice Questions.