19 complete individual booklets on all areas of study.
Each booklet has information and context features of each genre, composition tasks, performance pieces, practice exam style questions and a wider listening checklist.
So much core information within booklets that this could be delivered by a non-specialist!
AoS1:
The Coronation Anthems and Oratorios of Handel
Classical Music of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven
Romantic Piano Music of Chopin and Schumann
The Romantic Requiem (Verdi and Faure)
AOS2:
The Music of Broadway
Rock Music of the 70s and 80s
Film and Computer Game Music
Popular Music of the 90s to present
AOS3:
The Blues
African Fusion (Paul Simon)
Caribbean Fusion (Reggae)
Contemporary Latin Music (Santana and Buena Vista Social Club)
Contemporary Folk Music
AOS4:
The Orchestral Music of Aaron Copland
The British Music of Taverner, Arnold, Britten and Maxwell-Davies
The Hungarian Music of Kodaly and Bartok
Minimalism (Reich, Riley and Adams)
As well as revision cards of the conventions of each genre.
Booklets for AQA GCSE Music
Area of Study 3: Western Classical from 1910
Four separate booklets
Topics:
Aaron Copland
British Music (Maxwell-Davies, Taverner, Britten and Arnold)
Hungarian Music (Kodaly and Bartok)
Minimalism (Riley, Reich, Adams)
Includes
Information
Composition activities
Performance pieces
Practice exam questions
Wider listening checklist
Six lessons worth of video game music (possibly more as based on 100 minute lessons). There is a focus on compositional devices in a video game setting, with the end product being a video game composition.
Lesson 1 - Intro to video game music, consoles through time, keyboard skills
Lesson 2 - Fanfares in video games, composing a fanfare
Lesson 3 - Ostinatos
Lesson 4 - Call and Response and Sequences
Lesson 5 - Listening Assessment and composition
Lesson 6 - Composition assessment
Resource package has all PowerPoints, worksheets and sheet music
Can be used in the classroom or as homelearning. Applicable to all GCSE music exam boards.
Powerpoints with information of all key words on the following elements:
Dynamics
Harmony
Melody
Metre
Rhythm
Sonority/Timbre/Effects
Structure
Tempo
Texture
Tonality
Booklets for AQA GCSE Music
Area of Study 3: Traditional Music
Topics:
The Blues
African Fusion
Caribbean Fusion (Reggae)
Contemporary Latin
Contemporary Folk Music
Includes:
Information
Composition activities
Performance pieces
Practice exam questions
Wider listening checklist
GCSE powerpoints on any aspect of sonority - vocal techniques, instruments, music tech, voices, guitar effects and so on. Appropriate for any GCSE exam board.
Booklets for AQA GCSE Music
Area of Study 2: Popular Music
Five separate booklets
Topics:
Key terminology for AoS2
Broadway
Rock music of the 70s and 80s
Film and computer game music
Pop music
Includes:
Information
Composition activities
Performance pieces
Practice exam questions
Wider listening checklist
Designed for the RSL Music Practitioners course.
Can be used as a two-year course booklet or lots of stand-alone worksheets. Suitable for cover.
Includes research tasks, listening tasks, contextual history, fill the blanks, composition planning and directed tasks.
Topics include:
Instruments, Elements of Music, Functions of a DAW, Blues, Jazz, Rock n Roll, 50s Record Companies, Soul, Reggae, Rock, Punk, Pop-Punk, New Wave, 80s Synth Pop, Grunge, Hip-Hop, Rap, Latin Pop, Contemporary Folk, Indie Rock, RnB, 90s House Music, Progressive House, Tropical House, Garage, Dubstep, Drum and Bass, Electronica, Eurodance, Pop, Boybands and Girlbands, Grime, Synths Through Time, Drum Machines Through Time, Samplers Through Time, Guitar Techniques and Effects, Mixing Desks, Mixing Music (Filters, EQ), Recording and Distribution, Preparing Equipment in Recording Sessions, Microphone Types, Polar Patterns, Recording Vocals, Microphone Placement (Acoustic & Electric Guitars, Piano, Drums), Planning a Recording Session.
This resource can be used with no equipment, especially useful for homelearning or in a non-specialist classroom. There are a few lessons covering African Instruments and key words.