A complete listening / history lesson including three listening examples

Lesson 6 in the series includes listening activities and and extended student structural analysis task

A complete lesson covering these three genres with listening activities for each

Cut out these 64 musical words to get your GCSE / A Level students describing them to the class.

An overview of the 1990s including a lot of suggested listening, historical context and musical analysis. Suitable for the four major GCSE boards

A powerpoint to help your students understand the orchestra and its component parts

A GCSE Style score reading question sheet with accompanying score and audio file. Would also be suitable for early A level analysis.

A GCSE Style score reading question sheet with accompanying score and audio file. Would also be suitable for early A level analysis.

Two listening grids aimed to help you students build up connections for Section B Questions

A simple document to help your students list related pieces to each of the Beatles tracks

In this pack, designed to be used with the resource, A Students Guide to Composition, students are walked through how to write a waltz, from selecting chords to creating a contrasting B section.

Designed to be used in conjunction with A Students Guide to Composition, this resource will walk your students through the composition of a 12 Bar Blues that will satisfy the 4 GCSE exam boards

A brief introduction to the dance music of Latin America. The listening questions can be altered to suit any specification and musical examples are widely available on youtube.

Two section B questions related to The Duchess with accompanying audio tracks.

An example essay question on Psycho

Four questions on the four movements from the film score, designed to test listening skills in the manner of section A of the paper.

Three sets of questions on Bohemian Rhapsody designed to get students thinking about the connections / similarities to this and Killer Queen; for use in the potential essay question

A sheet designed to get students listening to related music, noting their musical features and comparing them to Psycho

Following on from my comprehensive guide to composition, here is a related resource specifically designed to help your students compose an Elegy.

8 Questions in the style of the new GCSE questions Listening tracks are listed on the last page - all freely available