Music Edexcel AS Level Popular Music and Jazz - Kate Bush

A short listening test on simple features of the blues. The listening track and answers are also attached.

This PPT should cover everything needed for the Indian Music section of the CIE IGCSE course, and other GCSE syllabuses. It covers key features, instruments, structure, and goes onto Bhangra at the end. All of the videos should be embedded, but if they don’t play then all the YouTube links are cited at the bottom of every slide. The language used is quite simple as it is written for EAL second language English speakers. Any feedback please let me know.

This PPT includes a keyword definition activity and also some listening questions on the Beatles song “Let it Be”. It can be 100% completed independently at home so is ideal for home and online learning.

This PPT includes literacy and music tasks for students to complete at home while online learning, all related to the Blues unit.

These listening questions are written for those studying CIE iGCSE with the Mozart piano concerto as the 2021 set work, but would be good listening and analysis practice for any KS4 / 5 students. They relate specifically to movement 3. The extracts of the score, questions, answers and listening tracks are attached.

This crossword revises the key featutres, composers and dates of the Classical Era. Ideal for the lead up for GCSE exams.

An activity for students to sort keyword features into the different country areas for GCSE Music.

Card sort with keywords and definitions for GCSE Music.

A presentation to take you through the basics of Jazz and Blues music. It is GCSE standard, although if you have a KS3 unit on Jazz this could be helpful also.

This presentation talks through everything to do with the Journal requirement of the new IB Music course.

This presentation talks students through the process of working our Major Key Signatures with flats or sharps. It has an embedded YouTube video, quizlet quiz and musictheory.net quiz link. There are tasks within the presentation so this could be used as a home learning lesson, or can be taught in the classroom.

This worksheet accompanies a Youtube video of 4 different musical soundtrack accompaniments to one scene from Pirates of the Caribbean. Students watch the clip and complete the table using the keyboards. There is a link to a quizlet to study the terms if needed. I don’t own the rights to the Youtube video.

This resource could be used as a worksheet or an assessment to test students’ knowledge of chords and cadences. It asks them to work out the key signature, the chords and then ascertain the cadence

This listening assessment is designed to test GCSE level students on their analysis of music from the Classical and Romantic periods. They are required to give information on the Period, Dates, Composer, Style, Musical Features and Instrumentation. Can be adapted for use with any listening extract. The 4 listening extracts are included as mp3s, and an answer sheet is included

This task asks students to add the missing word to each sentence, revising all of Western Classical Music knowledge from the IGCSE (and other) curriculums

This is a simple word doc. step by step guide for students to create and setup their first score on Musescore. There is also a video with the same information, followed by a video which shows step by step the input of an 8 bar simple chord sequence. These were made to support KS3 classes working independently from home to form the basis of a simple pop song composition.

A revision table for students to consolidate all the information for the different areas of the world for the World Music elements of the GCSE course. Useful leading up to the exam.

Keywords for the World Music Unit at CIE IGCSE, and undoubtedly other syllabuses. Cut out and use as a matching card sort.

A PPT Table with keyword sort activity, for Indian, Chinese and African music revision. Used with CIE IGCSE but could be used for most other GCSE and A-Level syllabuses.

A table to consolidate information across the Western Classical Music traditions of Baroque, Classical, Romantic and 20th Century. A good revision tool leading up to the exams.