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.
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 a highly useful 15 page resource, containing the following (all of which can be tweaked - PDF and word document included):
What we have done so far (This year, we have…’)
What we will do in Year 13/Upper Sixth (Next year, we will study…’)
Links to helpful wider listening playlist
AoSA Development of the Symphony revision exercises on Haydn, texture, structure, harmony and tonality etc.
Harmony exercise to identify and describe different tricky chords
Symphony wider listening grid (blank, to fill in)
AoSC Musical Theatre task - composers’ fingerprints grid
AoSE 20th Century wider listening grid with provided pieces
20th Century set works creative task
20th Century extensive questions based on Tom Pankhurst’s fantastic video
Guidance on dictation, signposting to best websites to use to practice
Space to jot down composition ideas (no guidance here, just manuscript)
A Level performance requirements
8 week practice diary
An elements of music matching exercise with 40+ key words on the page to match to the elements.
I hope this is helpful - thank you for your continued support of my resources! Please also check out my Symphony Wider Listening Guide and extensive schemes of work/PowerPoints.
Any questions, please email kirstenparry12@gmail.com
This is a highly useful 10 page resource, containing the following (all of which can be edited):
What we have done so far (‘In Year 10, we have…’)
What we will do in Year 11 (‘In Year 11, we will study…’)
Brandenburg Concerto: Context gap fill exercise
Baroque era revision page
Guidance on dictation, signposting to best websites to use to practice
Space to jot down composition ideas (no guidance here, just manuscript)
8 week practice diary
12 mark essay set work revision tasks - grids to fill out for Killer Queen/Let it Be, Star Wars/Hedwig’s theme and Music for a While/And the Glory of the Lord
Compare and contrast grid (any musical elements) between Beethoven’s Pathetique and Mozart’s Symphony No.40 Mvt 1
An elements of music matching exercise with 40+ key words on the page to match to the elements.
I hope this is helpful - thank you for your continued support of my resources!
Any questions, please email kirstenparry12@gmail.com
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
This is the final installment in my Eduqas A Level Music AoSA collection of lessons, with more memes than ever, and PPTs bursting with information about the late Romantic symphonies! I hope you enjoy using them.
Here are lessons 55-61 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 55 - Brahms 1
Lesson 56 - Bruckner 4
Lesson 57 - Tchaikovsky 4 and 5
Lesson 58 - Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony
Lesson 59 - Tchaikovsky 6 and Dvorak 9
Lesson 60 - Strauss Eulenspiegel and Mahler 2
Lesson 61 - Late Romantic Symphonies - summary / revision
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If you find my lessons useful, please keep an eye on my page as I am selling the rest of my lessons for AoSA in bundles.
Any questions please email! - kirstenparry12@gmail.com
Hope this is helpful!
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 40-44 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 40 - An introduction to Mendelssohn
Lesson 41 - Musicianship - cadences
Lesson 42 - Mendelssohn 4, Movements 1 and 2
Lesson 43 - Mendelssohn 4, Movements 3 and 4
Lesson 44 - Mendelssohn and the essay topics
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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!
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!
Here are lessons 6-10 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.
Lesson 6 - Early Classical music
Lesson 7 - Sonata form (ft. Haydn 2)
Lesson 8 - Mature Classical music (ft. various wider listenings from Haydn and Mozart)
Lesson 9 - Presentations
Lesson 10 - How to write an essay
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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 1-5 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 necessary. 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. PLEASE NOTE one of the videos I refer to has been taken off Youtube since the creation of these lessons. Please use this alternative video: https://youtu.be/a8jp2FKmDKM?si=KT04MM8TNZBcJ74x
Lesson 1 - An introduction to A Level Music
Lesson 2 - Theory Baseline test
Lesson 3 - Musical periods/genres
Lesson 4 - The Mannheim Orchestra/Stamitz Symphony in D
Lesson 5 - Musicianship skills - CPE Bach Symphony in Em
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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!
I can’t confirm its success just yet as I’m only halfway through teaching it! But hopefully it helps others who are new to teaching the Development of the Symphony. Each lesson on the plan has a PowerPoint that I have made - I will upload the first few free for a taster, then will likely sell in bundles as they took me forever and I made them from scratch!
I’ve cut a few lessons and will likely cut a few more (we have just finished the Mendelssohn so heading into the romantic symphonies next week). I’m a bit maximalist when it comes to planning, then cut down as I go. I get 5x55 mins a fortnight with my class, and my colleague has the same - she covers AoSC and composition. AoSE happens in Y13 for us, along with finishing AoSA and the brief comps.
Hope this plan is helpful!
This is a full 6-7 week scheme of work based upon Programme Music, appropriate for Key Stage 3 (I wrote it for Year 7). Including studies of Smetena’s Ma Vlast, Carnival of the Animals and The Lark Ascending, this is the perfect unit to get pupils into orchestral music. There are fun quizzes, listening exercises, performance opportunities and a composition project based upon images at the end. I hope that you enjoy and find it useful!
This is a display perfect for a board in a music department, as it contains several roles in the music industry that pupils may not have thought even existed!
This is a lovely arrangement of the traditional Irish song Danny Boy. It works really well for an upper voice choir and has two choral lines, accompanied by piano and string ensemble. The string parts are suitable for players Grade 4 and above.
If you email me proof of purchase, I would be delighted to send you the Musescore file alongside the MP3s and PDFs in this pack, so that you can tweak if necessary!
Included are PDFs and MP3s of every part as well as the full score!
kirstenparry12@gmail.com
This is a beautiful and delicate arrangement of Silent Night for two upper voice parts (SA or SS) and string ensemble. Perfect for a Christmas concert or carol service. The string parts would work for intermediate to advanced players and are Grade 3+ standard.
I have also included the MP3 of the full arrangement, as well as the MP3 without voices.
If you email me proof of purchase, I will happily send you the Musescore file so that you can tweak for your choir/ensemble!
kirstenparry12@gmail.com
This is the perfect arrangement for an intermediate string group at Christmastime! I arranged it for my Grades 2-3 violins, violas and cellos and they loved it. Hope you enjoy!
This is a clear, eye-catching and informative display based on AoSA for Eduqas A Level Music. My students found it super helpful to have up on the classroom wall!
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!
