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 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 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!
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 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!
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
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!
