Music Listening - Homework

This interactive and independent resource encourages the development of music appreciation and the understanding of keywords through listening to 50 pieces of music from 10 genres.

Baroque, Romantic, Minimalism, Film, Jazz, Blues, Rock 'n’ Roll, Rock, Pop and Rap and Hip Hop are all included and it was made to compliment the Model Music Curriculum for Key Stage 3 but wasn’t necessarily led by it.

Students will also learn over 80 keywords and techniques through listening to the pieces and will have a work booklet with leading questions for them to answer and develop their understanding as they listen to new music. Nearly 50 of the keywords have specifically made audio examples included on the keywords screen to help further consolidate the knowledge in a more concise way, as well as the 50 pieces of music. This resource would be perfect for listening exercises at Key Stage 3, 4 and 5, or as a consolidation of keywords and techniques / theory scheme of work at any of these ability levels.

The aim is that the students complete this work independently either in short segments (as a starter or plenary in a lesson perhaps), the main body of the lesson if covering a specific genre, as cover work for when you’re running the Christmas show or even as a weekly homework log where students are set a different genre each week to expand their musical knowledge and appreciation.

I’ve designed it to be flexible for all of these possibilities and more but the focus is on the students listening first, understanding second and then answering questions third. You could also use the glossary of terms in the back of the booklets as a weekly or termly test where students write the definitions of the keywords next to the term as they all match the keywords pages on the PowerPoint.

Each of the keywords is defined as you hover over the word on the PowerPoint and there is a bank of keywords organised in four sections: Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Key Stage 5 and Music Technology. I toiled with where to place some keywords, but I’ve based their final positions on the notion that a lot of Key Stage 3 students have missed a large chunk of their music lessons over the last 2 years so might be less familiar with some of the more complicated words. However, there is nothing stopping students and teachers delivering and learning the more complicated techniques earlier on in the school year. It is all about listening and discovering information through independent work and it is flexible for any circumstance, and I hope it creates curiosity in more complex techniques.

The resource only opens and fully functions in Microsoft PowerPoint. The file will open in Google Slides but none of the interactivity will work

You will receive the original PowerPoint, the Slide Show Only version, the Publisher Booklets and the PDF version as well.