This resource comprises 10 worksheets designed to secure, revise, and test knowledge of Scales and Modes. Aimed at Key Stage 4 Students, each worksheet should take around 15 minutes to complete, making them perfect on an individual basis for homework tasks, tests, distance-learning, revision activities, and collectively, as full cover lessons suitable for a supply teacher. If you use it for the latter, you needn’t worry about coming back to a huge pile of marking because full answers and a detailed teacher guide are also included in this resource pack, so students can mark and correct their own work, and teachers with limited specialist subject knowledge are thoroughly supported. Specifically, the worksheets incorporate the following types of activity: identifying major, and harmonic and melodic minor scales using fixed-interval semitone patterns (for both the bass and treble clef); adding accidentals to create major, and harmonic and melodic minor scales (in the bass and treble clef); using key signatures to create associated major, and related harmonic and melodic minor scales (in bass and treble clef notation); identifying Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, and Locrian modes using fixed-interval semitone patterns (again, in both the bass and treble clef); creating modes on different starting notes using knowledge of fixed-interval semitone patterns (on bass and treble staves). In total, there are 138 questions spread across 10 high-quality worksheets which will keep students busy for over two hours. I take great care to ensure my resources are of the highest quality – both in content and in presentation – and I wholeheartedly recommend them to both you and your students. I welcome feedback and enquiries from my colleague-customers all over the world, and I can be contacted directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com. I would be delighted to hear from you, and I thank you for considering this resource for your classroom.

This is a whole lot of Christmas fun for your music students! Depending upon ability and age group, there is enough in this pack to keep students occupied and engaged for 1 or 2 whole 1-hour lessons, making it perfect for the last week before Christmas! It’s aimed at Year 6 to 8, but it can work with any students who have a basic musical knowledge, provided they can indulge in the Christmas Eve storyline below! Students have to ‘Save Christmas’ because Santa is having a nightmare! It begins with Santa having overslept, and Rudolf can’t wake him without the magic word, which is written in treble staff music notation and all jumbled up. Students have to solve the mystery! No sooner have they woken Santa, he can’t start the sleigh – another magic word has to be revealed, this time by rearranging bass staff notation! Finally, he leaves the North Pole, but he’s lost the map for his special route over Europe, so students need the help of famous European composers to calculate the correct route. Next stop is Africa, but Santa gets stuck in a chimney in Ghana and a special code is needed to get into the magic glitter box that Rudolf can sprinkle on him to free him! The trouble is the code is written in notation and students need to convert it to numbers to reveal the code. Next stop is Asia, and disaster strikes for Santa right at the end of the leg when all the presents fall off the sleigh, landing on some tiny island in the Indian Ocean! A group of mathematical and musical pandas have written out some musical sums which reveal the GPS co-ordinates of the island. Students need to locate it! After recovering the presents, a sandstorm over Australia threatens to bring the sleigh down, but with the help of some friendly Australian animals and some musical instruments, students can reveal the password which speeds up the reindeer, avoiding the storm. On the final leg of the journey, weather threatens Christmas again when a dense fog covers The Americas. With the help of some flags and musical styles, students can safely navigate Santa across the continents and truly ‘Save Christmas’. It is a whole lot of fun and students love it – and with full answers and basic guidance provided, you’ll love it too! In the process of completing these activities, students get to use their skills in, and knowledge of, treble and bass staff notation, note durations, instruments, composers, and musical styles – PLUS there’s elements of numeracy, literacy, and geography for some great blended learning, this festive period. I am extremely proud of all my resources and I endeavour to publish work of only the highest quality for you. I greatly value feedback, suggestions, and enquiries from all of my colleague-customers around the world, and I invite you to contact me by email at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com should you wish to ask me anything about my work. Many thanks for considering this resource.

I would recommend buying this resource as part of the AQA A Level Pop Music Bundle, here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/aqa-a-level-pop-music-quintet-bundle-five-quality-resources-for-the-new-specification-12037342 Stevie Wonder is the second-named artist in the optional - and most popular - Area of Study 2: Pop Music on the new AQA A Level Syllabus (for first teaching from September 2016). I Just Called (to Say I Love You) is carefully chosen by Rainy Night Music as one of five songs, covering the top three named artists on the syllabus, which - together - cover ALL of the elements listed by AQA in Area of Study 2, whilst offering the necessary contrast. This resource pack comprises: a full Sibelius Piano and Voice score of I Just Called (to Say I Love You) for Sibelius 4, 5, 6, 7, and 7.5, including first and student versions - all versions included in download; a 2-page student worksheet designed to allow students to gain vital analysis skills; a 2-page detailed answer sheet, which constitutes a thorough analysis of everything that a student needs to know for the exam; an MP3 audio of the Sibelius score from a high quality sound-card recording. If you are a teacher, this resource pack will save you literally hours of planning; if you are a student, this will inform you about everything you need to know about this piece for the exam. Teaching and Learning Packs for the other 4 songs are also available from Rainy Night Music for more great value prices: Muse: Undisclosed Desires (£4); Muse: Apocalypse Please (£4); Stevie Wonder: Superstition (£3); Joni Mitchell: Blue (£4). All resources bear the hallmark of quality and experience that you come to expect when you buy the Rainy Night Music brand.

This is one of the six study pieces in the Romantic Piano Topic for Section C on the new AQA A Level Music Syllabus (for first teaching from September 2016). This resource pack comprises everything you need for complete teaching and learning related to the work. Specifically: a full Sibelius score of Edvard Grieg’s Notturno for Sibelius 4, 5, 6, 7, and 7.5, including all first and student versions - all versions included in download; a 7-page student worksheet designed to allow students to gain vital analysis skills; a 7-page detailed answer sheet, which constitutes a thorough 4000+ word analysis of everything that a student needs to know for the exam; an MP3 audio of the Sibelius score from a high quality sound-card recording. If you are a teacher, this resource pack will save you literally hours of planning; if you are a student, this will inform you about everything you need to know about this piece for the exam. The RNM purchase promise: Every resource that I post is one which I have spent hours preparing, researching, and refining with my own homemade personal touch. I don’t sell sub-standard ‘anything’, and you can expect plenty of value for money whenever you purchase a Rainy Night Music resource.

African Music is a very popular topic in Key Stage 3 Music. This project focuses on Rhythm and Metre, balancing theoretical elements such as basic note durations, time signatures, and specific features of rhythm and metre with live group performances. The cultural and historical elements of the music are also a focus within the unit, and explicitly so in 2 of the tasks for the benefit of subject-specific Citizenship requirements. The project is divided into 2 ‘lessons’, which fit perfectly into 2 x 100-minute lessons, but also very well into 3 action-packed hour-long lessons… I have personally taught this project in both of these formats. The theoretical content works best with most Year 8 groups, but can also work well with high-ability Year 7 groups; the performing and composing tasks work great with either year group. The video tutorials take the pressure off you, the teacher, if you need half an hour or so to check homework, etc. Let me teach your students how time signatures work, what triplets are, and how graphic scores work while you mark a few books, if you want! I take great pride in the quality of my resources and I welcome feedback and enquiries from my colleague-customers the world over. I can be contacted directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com and I would be delighted to hear from you. Thank you for considering this resource for your classroom.

This resource is suitable for AS and A Level Music and Grade 4-5 ABRSM Theory. This is at least a whole lesson worth of content and activities, if not 2. It is fully supported by a 22-slide PowerPoint and 2 worksheets, all with detailed answers. This resource pack could be used for either revision or content delivery. By the end of the lesson, students should be equipped with the skills, techniques, and experience to convert simple and compound time signatures and be able to fully transcribe a passage of music from one to the other without changing the rhythmic effect. Not only are these skills valuable for potential exam questions, it provides students with an invaluable technique for developing compositions. The suggestion on the work sheet (and PowerPoint) that students should consider rewriting the first section of their composition in compound time (or in simple time if it was originally compound), and using it as part of a ternary structure, is what I have said to my own students because examiners really like to see that. The worksheet and PowerPoint takes students through that process in baby steps and delivers great results. I really hope that you will enjoy my resources and find them useful. I pride myself on the quality of the resources that I publish, and I welcome feedback and enquiries from all of my colleague-customers across the world. I can be contacted directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com and I would be delighted to hear from you. Thank you for considering this resource for your classroom.

This pack is one of six in a series from Rainy Night Music which covers over 350 key words, terms, and instruments listed as Language for Learning on all new UK GCSE Music syllabuses. There is more than a 90% crossover of key terminology between WJEC/ Eduqas, AQA, Edexcel and OCR, and this series covers them all. This particular pack deals with Rhythm, Tempo, and Metre. Specifically, the 7 key-word groupings for these activity sets are: Tempo Markings; Types of Metre; Metric Features; Temporal Features; General Rhythmic Features; Specific Rhythmic Features; Baroque Dances. For each topic stated, there are 8 key words (56 in total) which may form the basis of a theory and listening lesson, but will certainly link the words in a related and structured way - in much the same way MFL vocabulary is taught. Each topic has a word search designed to pre-teach the key words, a flash card template (for students to complete through independent research for homework) to pre-teach the definitions, a mix ‘n’ match activity to provide the actual definitions. Ideally, the actual theory and lesson will follow this to allow consolidation, and then the crossword activity serves as the revision activity. ALL activities have FULL answers provided with this download. However, there is a great deal of flexibility in how you use and get the most out of these activities – my personal recommendation would be to re-use the mix ‘n’ match activity to create an additional resource (where the terms are not separated from one another), and use it for Quiz-Quiz-Trade starters and plenaries in Year 11. I really hope that you will enjoy my resources and find them useful. I pride myself on the quality of the resources that I publish, and I welcome feedback and enquiries from all of my colleague-customers across the world. I can be contacted directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com and I would be delighted to hear from you. Thank you for considering this resource for your classroom.

This topic builds upon prior knowledge of chords and scales. There is a dual focus in this topic on modes and added and suspended note chords as found in Pop Music, including how they are labelled and inverted. Students are introduced to the Ionian mode which they identify as the Major scale. They are then taken through the Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, and Locrian modes, focusing on how each of these modes are simply rearrangements of the Ionian about different notes. Students are taught how rearranging the notes (and therefore chords) of the Ionian change the sound because it changes the tonality of strategic chords – most notably the Primary chords. Activities follow to transpose and identify modes using their unique fixed-interval semitone (half-step) patterns. Students are then introduced to added-note chords, specifically the added 2nd, 4th, and 9th chords – all chords that will be found in any study of The Beatles. Students are taken through how major, minor, augmented, and diminished chords are written in pop music, and how the notes can be worked out using scales and the intervals between the 3 basic notes of the triad. From this point they are shown how to add the 2nd and 4th and how the 2nd becomes a 9th – and plenty of activities follow to consolidate the learning. Following this, suspended-note chords are introduced using similar techniques and, again, plenty of activities follow to consolidate learning – all with detailed answers. The conclusion is to briefly look at Power Chords and inversions of basic pop chords – again, with activities. All of this comes with a 34-slide animated and beautifully-presented PowerPoint, annotated with detailed teaching guidance notes, to make delivery of the topic smooth and efficient – plus a 6-page student information sheet, 4-page activity sheet, and 3-page detailed answer sheet. With regards to the listening questions, MP3s are provided (and they are always my own compositions), and you may well want to insert the audios into the slide rather than use media player. I really hope that you will enjoy my resources and find them useful. I pride myself on the quality of the resources that I publish, and I welcome feedback and enquiries from all of my colleague-customers across the world. I can be contacted directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com and I would be delighted to hear from you. Thank you for considering this resource for your classroom.

This is the second movement from one of the three concertos listed on the new AQA A Level Syllabus (for first teaching from September 2016), and part of the only full concerto required for AS Level. This resource pack comprises: a full Sibelius score of the second movement from Henry Purcell’s Sonata for Trumpet and Strings in D Major for Sibelius 4, 5, 6, 7, and 7.5, including first and student versions - all versions included in download; a 3-page student worksheet designed to allow students to gain vital analysis skills; a 3-page detailed answer sheet, which constitutes a thorough analysis of everything that a student needs to know for the exam; an MP3 audio of the Sibelius score from a high quality sound-card recording. If you are a teacher, this resource pack will save you literally hours of planning; if you are a student, this will inform you about everything you need to know about this piece for the exam. Great value, and the hallmark of quality that you rightly expect when you purchase a Rainy Night Music resource.

**A set of 3 tiered Music Bingo Games based on key signatures. The unique triple-tiered set of clues for this pack makes each game customisable for a range of different abilities. ** Each of the 3 Bingo Games in this set has all 15 standard key signatures, which are presented in a variety of clefs. Each game has 12 unique playing cards, which can very realistically be doubled up for a class of 24 students. Each game also has a master calling card containing 3 clues (one easier, one more difficult, and one hard) to describe each of the key signatures on the calling card. Each unique playing card has a total of 9 of the 15 key signatures on it. This set of 3 is specifically designed to facilitate and accommodate progress, whilst at the same time being extremely flexible. This set contains 3 different tiers of clues, enabling the teacher to focus on anything from counting accidentals and familiarisation with the relevant clef (Clue 1), to thinking about relative minor keys (Clue 3). As such, you can choose to make Level 1 relatively hard, and Level 3 relatively easy simply through choosing which set of clues to read. Nonetheless, the Level 1 game is based on the treble clef; the Level 2 game is based on the bass clef; the Level 3 game is based on the alto clef. This set is available as part of a 6-pack Bingo Bundle, here: [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/music-bingo-bundle-12178022]. I really hope that you will enjoy my resources and find them useful. I pride myself on the quality of the resources that I publish, and I welcome feedback and enquiries from all of my colleague-customers across the world. I can be contacted directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com and I would be delighted to hear from you. Thank you for considering this resource for your classroom.

Ideal for Year 7 to 9, and an excellent choice for Saint Patrick’s Day, this project is fully resourced with enough activities for up to 3 hours of fun-packed, exciting, quality learning. This project deals first with characteristics of Irish Music, and then moves onto Irish instruments. Listening and written tasks are incorporated, here. There is then a focus on the Dorian mode, and a couple of further written notation activities. The main task follows, which is a 4-part Jig composed by myself: Bodhran (rhythm) part; Chord part for either keyboard/ piano or guitar (chord grids provided); 2 melody/ countermelody parts. Students are taken through the learning of each part, and then set to task on a group performance. Extension tasks explore the addition of a drone and/ or Irish ornamentation (taps, cuts, and rolls). Finally, students assess themselves against the 10-point success criteria on the PowerPoint and evaluate their achievement. In this download pack, you will receive: 1 x Starter Word Search introducing key words associated with Irish Music (Literacy) 1 x 11-page worksheet with 10 separate tasks covering the whole range of listening, theory, and performing skills, plus contextual and historical knowledge of Ireland. 1 x 3-minute annotated video demonstrating the 4 main characteristics of Irish Music with plenty of incidental learning embedded. 1 x 22-Slide PowerPoint which is beautifully presented and animated with Objectives, every single task ‘chunked’ for easy content delivery, Answers, extension tasks, and much more. 1 x Main task focusing on group performance in the form of an Irish Jig (composed by myself) 27 x MP3 files modelling the individual parts, the main task and extension tasks. 1 x Potato Famine fact sheet, focusing on the responsibility of government in crisis situations, and specifically the British government’s role in the deaths of so many Irish. (PSHCE) 1 x Crossword for homework to recap key words relating to Irish Music (Numeracy) I am extremely proud of all my resources and I endeavour to publish work of only the highest quality - you get what you pay for. I greatly value feedback, suggestions, and enquiries from all of my colleague-customers around the world, and I invite you to contact me by email at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com should you wish to ask me anything about my work. Many thanks for considering this resource.

Perfect for Year 7-9 Key Stage 3 Music students, and especially cover lessons. There are up to 6 hours of content in this download pack, which focuses on two composers from each of the 6 musical eras of the Western Classical Tradition! The activities build literacy skills in addition to broadening general musical knowledge. Answers for the activities are provided in booklets and are also included on a handy PowerPoint, so that students can mark their own work, allowing you to simply moderate. Full delivery instructions with suggested extension tasks are also included. There are 18 worksheets in this resource, divided up into 6 sets of 3 – one set for each of the 6 musical eras of the Western Classical Tradition. In each set, there are 2 x 250-word composer biographies with an attached reading and comprehension task, and a 25-statement True or False activity based on the composer biographies for each era. Each set conveniently makes up a complete 1-hour lesson. While students complete the reading and comprehension activities for each composer, there are YouTube links provided for the music of each respective composer, giving students a context and allowing them to record their observations and opinions for a class discussion at the end of the activity. The links are all checked and are valid as of 28th October 2020. There is also a teacher handout with full instructions as to how to run the Scheme of Work and whole individual lessons within it, including some great ideas for extending the learning. Another great thing about this resource is that it is absolutely perfect for a supply teacher who has no specialist musical knowledge at all. I really hope that you will enjoy my resources and find them useful. I pride myself on the quality of my resources and I welcome feedback and enquiries from my colleague-customers from all over the world at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com. I will be more than happy to help you in any way that I can. Thank you for considering this resource for your classroom.

This resource comprises 10 worksheets designed to secure, revise, and test knowledge of Rhythm and Metre. Aimed at Key Stage 3 Students, each worksheet should take between 15 and 30 minutes to complete, making them perfect for homework tasks or tests, but also allowing you to set only a few questions as a starter or combine whole worksheets into cover lessons for a supply teacher. If you use it for the latter, you needn’t worry about coming back to a huge pile of marking because full answers and a detailed teacher guide are also included in this resource pack, so students can mark and correct their own work, and teachers with limited specialist subject knowledge are supported. Specifically, the worksheets incorporate the following types of activity: maths with note duration symbols (dotted and un-dotted notes); identifying metres (simple and basic compound time); adding missing bar lines (simple and basic compound time); adding missing note durations from bars (simple and basic compound time); developing rhythms using augmentation and diminution techniques (doubling and halving note values into a new time signature – 2/4 to 2/2 for example). A handy little guide to duration, which can be printed as small cards ahead of the lesson, has been included so that students can simply work the notes out, even if they are only vaguely familiar with note duration symbols – so everything has been thought of for your convenience. I take great care to ensure my resources are of the highest quality – both in content and in presentation – and I wholeheartedly recommend them to both you and your students. I welcome feedback and enquiries from my colleague-customers all over the world, and I can be contacted directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com (Steve). I would be delighted to hear from you, and I thank you for considering this resource for your classroom.

This is one of the six study pieces in the Romantic Piano Topic for Section C on the new AQA A Level Music Syllabus (for first teaching from September 2016). This resource pack comprises everything you need for complete teaching and learning related to the work. Specifically: a full Sibelius score of Edvard Grieg’s Norwegian March for Sibelius 4, 5, 6, 7, and 7.5, including all first and student versions - all versions included in download; an 8-page student worksheet designed to allow students to gain vital analysis skills; an 8-page detailed answer sheet, which constitutes a thorough 4500+ word analysis of everything that a student needs to know for the exam; an MP3 audio of the Sibelius score from a high quality sound-card recording. If you are a teacher, this resource pack will save you literally hours of planning; if you are a student, this will inform you about everything you need to know about this piece for the exam. Every resource I post is one which I have spent hours preparing, researching, and refining with my own homemade personal touch.

This pack is one of six in a series from Rainy Night Music which covers over 350 key words, terms, and instruments listed as Language for Learning on all new UK GCSE Music syllabuses. There is more than a 90% crossover of key terminology between WJEC/ Eduqas, AQA, Edexcel and OCR, and this series covers them all. This particular pack deals with Articulation, Dynamics and FX. Specifically, the 7 key-word groupings for these activity sets are: Vocal Techniques & FX; Orchestral Techniques & FX; Guitar Techniques & FX; Studio Techniques and Devices; Studio Processes and FX; Volume Dynamics; Common Articulation Markings. For each topic stated, there are 8 key words (56 in total) which may form the basis of a theory and listening lesson, but will certainly link the words in a related and structured way - in much the same way MFL vocabulary is taught. Each topic has a word search designed to pre-teach the key words, a flash card template (for students to complete through independent research for homework) to pre-teach the definitions, a mix ‘n’ match activity to provide the actual definitions. Ideally, the actual theory and lesson will follow this to allow consolidation, and then the crossword activity serves as the revision activity. ALL activities have FULL answers provided with this download. However, there is a great deal of flexibility in how you use and get the most out of these activities – my personal recommendation would be to re-use the mix ‘n’ match activity to create an additional resource (where the terms are not separated from one another), and use it for Quiz-Quiz-Trade starters and plenaries in Year 11. I really hope that you will enjoy my resources and find them useful. I pride myself on the quality of the resources that I publish, and I welcome feedback and enquiries from all of my colleague-customers across the world. I can be contacted directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com and I would be delighted to hear from you. Thank you for considering this resource for your classroom.

This pack is one of six in a series from Rainy Night Music which covers over 350 key words, terms, and instruments listed as Language for Learning on all new UK GCSE Music syllabuses. There is more than a 90% crossover of key terminology between WJEC/ Eduqas, AQA, Edexcel and OCR, and this series covers them all. This particular pack deals with Melody and Texture. Specifically, the 7 key-word groupings for these activity sets are: Melodic Decoration; Melodic Construction; Melody Foundations; Melodic Features; General Textures; Specific Textures; Textural Features. For each topic stated, there are 8 key words (56 in total) which may form the basis of a theory and listening lesson, but will certainly link the words in a related and structured way - in much the same way MFL vocabulary is taught. Each topic has a word search designed to pre-teach the key words, a flash card template (for students to complete through independent research for homework) to pre-teach the definitions, a mix ‘n’ match activity to provide the actual definitions. Ideally, the actual theory and lesson will follow this to allow consolidation, and then the crossword activity serves as the revision activity. ALL activities have FULL answers provided with this download. However, there is a great deal of flexibility in how you use and get the most out of these activities – my personal recommendation would be to re-use the mix ‘n’ match activity to create an additional resource (where the terms are not separated from one another), and use it for Quiz-Quiz-Trade starters and plenaries in Year 11. I really hope that you will enjoy my resources and find them useful. I pride myself on the quality of the resources that I publish, and I welcome feedback and enquiries from all of my colleague-customers across the world. I can be contacted directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com and I would be delighted to hear from you. Thank you for considering this resource for your classroom.

Stevie Wonder is the second-named artist in the optional - and most popular - Area of Study 2: Pop Music on the new AQA A Level Syllabus (for first teaching from September 2016). Superstition is carefully chosen by Rainy Night Music as one of five songs, covering the top three named artists on the syllabus, which - together - cover ALL of the elements listed by AQA in Area of Study 2, whilst offering the necessary contrast. This resource pack comprises: a full Sibelius Piano and Voice score of Superstition for Sibelius 4, 5, 6, 7, and 7.5, including first and student versions - all versions included in download; a 1-page student worksheet designed to allow students to gain vital analysis skills; a 1-page detailed answer sheet, which constitutes a thorough analysis of everything that a student needs to know for the exam; an MP3 audio of the Sibelius score from a high quality sound-card recording. If you are a teacher, this resource pack will save you literally hours of planning; if you are a student, this will inform you about everything you need to know about this piece for the exam. Teaching and Learning Packs for the other 4 songs are also available from Rainy Night Music for more great value prices: Muse: Undisclosed Desires (£4); Muse: Apocalypse Please (£4); Stevie Wonder: I Just Called (To Say I Love You) (£4); Joni Mitchell: Blue (£4). All resources bear the hallmark of quality and experience that you come to expect when you buy the Rainy Night Music brand.

This is the first movement from one of the three concertos listed on the new AQA A Level Syllabus (for first teaching from September 2016), and the only movement from this work that is required for AS Level. This resource pack comprises: a full Sibelius score of the first movement from Vivaldi’s Concerto in D Major (Il Gardellino) for Sibelius 4, 5, 6, 7, and 7.5, including student versions - all versions included in download; a 7-page student worksheet designed to allow students to gain vital analysis skills; a 7-page detailed answer sheet, which constitutes a thorough analysis of everything that a student needs to know for the exam; an MP3 audio of the Sibelius score from a high quality sound-card recording. If you are a teacher, this resource pack will save you literally hours of planning; if you are a student, this will inform you about everything you need to know about this piece for the exam. Great value, and the same hallmark of quality that you rightly expect from the Rainy Night Music brand.

Put simply: if you teach AQA A-Level Music (new specification 2016+), then this is the best £9 you will ever spend. Yes, there are a couple of things that are specific to my school in terms of its policies on how, when, and who decides when a student is AS or A Level, and a couple of things specific to my own department policies, but that does not detract from what this is: a fully comprehensive guide to the requirements of the AQA AS and A Level Music courses, as interpreted by an experienced Head of Music. I have always used such a video (this one was only made last year, 2016, for the new specification), but it has been shared to the school’s Google Classroom and Moodle for both students and parents to view at their leisure. There is not a single student or parent who could say ‘I didn’t know about that’. This video covers: the differences between AS and A Level Music in terms of both content, weightings, and standards for each of the 3 elements of the course; the set works, including a decent amount of background teaching to the various composers and genres listed; a guide to learning independently - from how to take notes in class, to how to share information with other students, produce detailed notes, and expand those notes through a series of low, medium, and high-level questions (all explained on the video). This insight into ‘how’ to learn at VI Form was actually taken up as a whole-school model for my school by the SLT. Students do not necessarily know ‘how’ to conduct the necessary independent research outside of the classroom - this video dedicates at least 25 minutes to just that. Don’t forget it also instructs parents how to assist, and as it comes with a Site License option, should you take that up, you are free to put this on your own school e-learning platform so that your students and parents may benefit as much as mine. I have even used this video for staff training, with great feedback. You will need to provide the students with print-outs of the AQA Specs which are referred to in the video - I wouldn’t include those PDFs here in case it looks like I am selling the specs! The PDF resources included in this are referred to in the video and are to do with the independent learning. I hope that you get as much benefit from this video in your school as I do in mine. Thank you for buying Rainy Night Music.

Students can’t get enough of this project! There are up to 5 hours of fun to be had, here, and it all comes with beautiful original resources based on ideas from the Harry Potter series, which have then been developed into a complete musical project, which is ideal for either Halloween or Christmas. The project is based on 20 short themes, taken from over 500 years of music history. The composer of the music from which the theme is taken is known as the ‘Composer Wizard’. Each ‘wizard’ has their own card upon which the theme (or ‘spell’) is presented alongside some basic facts about the ‘wizard’ themselves, and some musical element advice to make the spell stronger (dynamics, timbre, etc). The Composer Wizard Cards can be obtained through answering a series of clues - 3 for each card (the Wizard Card Hunt). This part of the project allows students to do some independent learning, researching on the internet, eventually finding the ‘password’ to the next clue, and ultimately to each of the 20 Wizard Cards. Students work in teams, or Houses, to gather as many Wizard Cards as they can during ‘the hunt’, and then spend time learning the spells in preparation for the ‘musical duel’. There are 10 curse spells and 10 antidote spells, all of which have an MP3 audio in the download for this resource. You will also receive 20 x beautifully presented Wizard Cards, 60 x stylishly presented Wizard Card Clues, 1 x master answer card, 1 x completed and organised ‘fixture list’ for the musical duel, 1 x sheet with House Badges (Lions, Snakes, Badgers, and Ravens) for you to print and use in a ‘sorting’ process, should you wish to, and 1 x full project overview supporting the teacher with regard to the successful running of this project. You have everything you need in this download for a really fun project, and whilst it works brilliantly at Halloween or Christmas, it is actually a wonderful introduction to Western Classical Music at any time of the year! As always, I am very proud of the quality of this resource, and I hope that you and your students will find as much enjoyment in completing this project as my own students have done. I welcome feedback from all my colleague-customers, and you can contact me at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com. Thank you for considering this resource for your classroom.