I have been teaching Music for 6 years and many of the resources I use, I made myself. At the moment, I am particularly focusing on making resources for the Development of the Symphony aspect of the Eduqas A Level Music course, as this is an extremely broad area of study which requires a huge amount of wider listening and contextual knowledge.
I have been teaching Music for 6 years and many of the resources I use, I made myself. At the moment, I am particularly focusing on making resources for the Development of the Symphony aspect of the Eduqas A Level Music course, as this is an extremely broad area of study which requires a huge amount of wider listening and contextual knowledge.
Here are lessons 45-54 of my AoSA scheme of work, which complement the long-term plan I have uploaded separately and in this pack. Please do edit and tweak as appropriate for your classes. Keep an eye on the notes, as I have put links/notes on quite a few of my slides. The integrated videos should work on your device/s but if they don’t, the Youtube links are in the notes for each slide. Wider reading/worksheets are also included, apart from those I did not make myself. Includes suggested homework tasks.
Lesson 45 - Beethoven 9 ‘Choral’
Lessons 46-47 - Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique
Lesson 48 - Patronage
Lesson 49 - Drama/narrative/programme music
Lesson 50 - Dance/folk/nationalist music
Lesson 51 - Schumann Symphony No.3
Lessons 52-53 - Liszt Eine Faust Symphonie
Lesson 54 - Liszt Les Preludes
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If you find my lessons useful, please keep an eye on my page as I will be selling the rest of my lessons for AoSA in bundles (I have around 60 lessons in total!)**
Any questions please email! - kirstenparry12@gmail.com
Hope this is helpful!
Here are lessons 29-39 of my AoSA scheme of work, which complement the long-term plan I have uploaded separately and in this pack. Please do edit and tweak as appropriate for your classes. Keep an eye on the notes, as I have put links/notes on quite a few of my slides. Enjoy the elf on the shelf memes - they sustain my pupils first thing on a Monday morning! The integrated videos should work on your device/s but if they don’t, the Youtube links are in the notes for each slide. Wider reading/worksheets are also included, apart from those I did not make myself. Includes suggested homework tasks.
Lessons 29-30 - The Creatures of Prometheus
Lesson 31 - Musicianship (ft. Beethoven’s Eroica Variations)
Lessons 32-33 - Beethoven 3 (Eroica)
Lessons 34-35 - Beethoven 5
Lesson 36 - Musicianship - circle of fifths
Lessons 37-39 - Beethoven 6 (Pastoral)
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If you find my lessons useful, please keep an eye on my page as I will be selling the rest of my lessons for AoSA in bundles (I have around 60 lessons in total!)**
Any questions please email! - kirstenparry12@gmail.com
Hope this is helpful!
This is a super fun arrangement I created, of 4 different well-known Christmas songs, for Big Band and vocalists. Songs and instruments are listed below. A standard performance lasts for around 5m45s. It is so much fun to perform and really shows a range of styles. Perfect for an intermediate-advanced school Jazz Band or Big Band.
Songs:
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Baby it’s cold outside
Rockin’ around the Christmas tree
Jingle Bell Rock
Parts included:
Alto sax 1
Alto sax 2
Tenor sax 1
Tenor sax 2
Bari sax
Trumpet 1
Trumpet 2
Trumpet 3
Trumpet 4
Trombone 1
Trombone 2
Trombone 3
Voice x2 (but can be split into 3/4 parts)
Piano
Bass
Drums
Guitar chords over the vocal line
If you email me proof of purchase, I will gladly send you the Musescore file! (can’t upload Musescore files on Tes)
kirstenparry12@gmail.com
This is a mammoth arrangement of Show Yourself from the wonderful Frozen 2. This pack includes the full orchestral score, SATB+piano, and separate parts alongside MP3s of the arrangement with and without voices. I used Musescore 4 to create this arrangement and the sound packs are really good.
Perfect for an SATB choir with or without orchestra - it’s all there for you as a backing track or arrangement either way.
The arrangement includes the following parts:
Solo voice
Soprano
Alto
Tenor
Bass
Violins
Violas
Cellos
Double bass
Piano 1
Piano 2
Guitar
Bass guitar
Triangle
Cymbal
Drumkit
Bass drum
Gong
Horn in F
Trumpet in Bb
Trombone
If you email me proof of purchase I will happily send you the Musescore file, which can’t be uploaded onto Tes!
Here are lessons 11-28 of my AoSA scheme of work, which complement the long-term plan I have uploaded separately and in this pack. Please do edit and tweak as appropriate for your classes. Keep an eye on the notes, as I have put links/notes on quite a few of my slides. Enjoy the elf on the shelf memes - they sustain my pupils first thing on a Monday morning! The integrated videos should work on your device/s but if they don’t, the Youtube links are in the notes for each slide. Wider reading/worksheets are also included, apart from those I did not make myself. Includes suggested homework tasks.
Lesson 11 - Musicianship (ft. Haydn 94 ‘Paukenschlag’)
Lesson 12 - An introduction to the London Symphonies by Haydn
Lessons 13-15 - Huge analysis PPT of Haydn 104, Movements 1 and 2
Lesson 16 - Musicianship - chords and intervals
Lessons 17-19 - More Movement 2 analysis of the Haydn
Lesson 20 - Musicianship (ft. Beethoven 1)
Lesson 21 - All about Beethoven
Lessons 22-24 - Huge analysis PPT of Haydn 104, Movement 3
Lesson 25 - Musicianship - transposition
Lessons 26-28 - Huge analysis PPT of Haydn 104, Movement 4
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If you find my lessons useful, please keep an eye on my page as I will be selling the rest of my lessons for AoSA in bundles (I have around 60 lessons in total!)**
Any questions please email! - kirstenparry12@gmail.com
Hope this is helpful!
This is an extensive 60 page resource to complement the Edexcel GCSE Music course, offering a range of wider listening questions and tasks covering 33 different pieces. This workbook suits pupils throughout their GCSE course, for in-lesson activities or for homework. It is clear, guided and improves independence and confidence in their exam technique. The document includes a clearly laid out contents page, musical element definition reminder and a reflection page at the end.
The pieces are selected from the Edexcel suggested wider listening list, but I have also added in a few which I thought would be good to look at. I have created every question myself - most are typical of a Question 9 unfamiliar listening question, but some are useful tasks to help students to identify musical features in an unfamiliar piece without the pressure. The necessary score excerpts are included within the workbook, and the full scores are available within this pack. The audio can be found in this Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1vm0Of3CreRas9ecfWeyoN?si=f48e0a6b667b40b2 and the track numbers align with the score file numbers and the contents list, so everything is incredibly easy to find.
I hope that this resource is as useful for your pupils as it is for mine. Any issues or questions please email me on kirstenparry12@gmail.com. Thank you for your support!
This is an extensive and exhaustive resource full of essay points and score examples for AoSA Development of the Symphony Wider Listening. It contains points for every single essay topic (13 in total), covering 21 wider listening works from Stamitz (1750) to Mahler (1894). This resource also includes extensive points on Haydn 104 and Mendelssohn 4, the A Level set works.
Whilst there is a huge volume of information in here, and more than enough wider listening examples, the idea is that students can flick to the essay topic that they want to revise (e.g. C. Second/slow movements) and easily be able to compare earlier and later symphonies, accessing lots of different essay points. You can edit the document to make it work for your wider listening choices, and use it as a PDF (with hyperlinks for each essay topic), or print it as a booklet (for a physical revision resource).
This resource has been a labour of love, and taken over 50 hours to complete. I hope that it is helpful!
Any questions at all, please contact me on kirstenparry12@gmail.com. Thank you!
This is the full collection of all 61 PowerPoints I have created for the AoSA within Eduqas A Level Music. I made these resources to teach myself the content, as I was new to teaching Development of the Symphony, and I also of course use them to teach my students. Some of the lessons are very information-heavy, but you could adapt them to be more research-focused if that works for you. The SoW includes activities, video links and suggested homework tasks. I have also included all wider reading, although not all of it is necessary for the course - more complementary.
These lessons took in excess of 3 months of daily grind to create (summer 2023 was great fun…!), and by purchasing this bundle you are saving 10% compared to purchasing them in separate, smaller bundles.
In some of my PowerPoints, I reference the ‘landmark’ document. This is a worksheet I was sent by another teacher, so as I did not create it, I did not include it in this pack. However, that teacher is happy for the landmark document to be shared for free, so please send me an email if you don’t already have it and we will sort it.
These resources were created in Summer 2023 so some Youtube links may have expired; again, email me and I can update you. I will be updating all of my resources once the change of set works is formalised.
Thank you for your support, and please do not hesitate to email me with any questions!
kirstenparry12@gmail.com
