Knowledge Organisers for GCSE Music listening and appraising exam Divided up into MAD T-SHIRTS acronym: Melody Articulation Dynamics Texture Structure Harmony & Tonality Instrumentation Rhythm & Tempo Time Signature / Metre Style

35 GCSE Music Listening & Appraising Questions A range of listening exam-style questions that could be used in the classroom or as homework. Questions are linked to the genres highlighted in the Eduqas specification but would be relevant to any specification’s unfamiliar listening. Edit: I’ve just added an answer booklet (28/04/20)

An introduction (or reintroduction) to listening and appraising using tier 3 language, encouraging pupils to “talk like a musician”… *Italian tempo markings *Italian dynamic markings *Major/Minor/Atonal tonality *Instrumentation *Texture: Monophonic/Polyphonic/Melody&Accompaniment/Call & Response Full MTP, workbook, ppts & listening assessments that can be delivered in 6 lessons. Listening do-nows in workbooks for every lesson too. Audio based on a wide variety of genres, some linked to model music curriculum recommended listening. By the end pupils have listened to a huge variety of music to practice listening for the terminology they are being taught. All listening and appraising tasks have excerpts embedded in ppts - link to audio via Googledrive included.

A series of listening & appraising questions that pupils can complete whilst watching the 2021 movie adaptation of the musical West Side Story. Links to: dynamic markings, Italian tempo markings, texture (monophonic, melody & accompaniment, etc.), families of instruments, tonality (major, minor, atonal) and other general listening. Useful if put into a room change with no instruments or simply wanting to introduce pupils to a musical & have productive, listening work to complete.

A series of listening & appraising questions that pupils can complete whilst watching the 2021 movie adaptation of the musical In The Heights. Links to: dynamic markings, Italian tempo markings, texture (monophonic, melody & accompaniment, etc.), families of instruments, tonality (major, minor, atonal) and other general listening. Useful if put into a room change with no instruments or simply wanting to introduce pupils to a musical & have productive, listening work to complete.

This is a little parody song my class worked on as revision for their Edexcel GCSE course. It has proved a really useful way of remembering some of the key information and developing literacy skills. A pupil recorded themselves to model the task for other classes. It is sung to the song 'Do you want to build a snowman?'

Here are parts we have created for KS3 pupils to perform & record themselves as part of a DAW project on ‘All Of Me’ by John Legend. These can be printed onto A3 paper/card & used in the classroom. The parts are: 1 - Bass Line (simple semibreves) 2 - Chords (Simplified triads in root position) 3 - Chords (Triads in different inversions) 4 - Melody ( Tune & intro pattern) Also included is the sibelius file from which these parts have been taken. Hope others might find them useful.

Three Lions keyboard sheet with chorus melody line notated and pitches added, as well as simple triads added.