A complete Unit of work on Chinese Music. Includes research on Chinese instruments, culture and festivals, Performance work and Composition work, using the pentatonic scale.
Composing Practice Music Worksheets - Rhythm Composing Activities
You’ll get 4 music worksheets (each with a different time signature) that you can use for short assessments, morning work or warm up exercises. Students will be able to easily practise rhythms while having fun!
It’ll be a useful resource during your class that will boost your teaching efficiency!
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A full Unit of work based on Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. Includes Listening and appraising tasks, Performance task and Composition task, each with differentiated success criteria and evaluations. Also includes embedded link to the music and homework tasks.
This pack contains:
6x listening sheets (PDF)
6x Answer sheets for each sheet
This listening pack is suitable for more advanced Year 9 students or students studying GCSE music (14 -16 years).
Each homework sheet focuses on a different contemporary composer. Pupils are required to listen to a piece of music on YouTube or Spotify and answer questions relating to the given music.
Pupils can access the YouTube clip either by scanning the QR code on the sheet or following the link given.
Each listening sheet is marked out of 10. There is an optional ‘Stretch and challenge” question at the end of each sheet worth 5 extra marks. This question requires more detailed use of musical key terms.
Composers included in this pack:
Elena Kats-Chernin
Jessica Curry
John Tavener
Chilly Gonzales
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Henri Tomasi
First unit to complete with Year 7 ...
Musical Elements
Rhythm and Pulse
Keyboard pieces
Yellow Submarine class performance
Instruments of the Orchestra
Peter and the Wolf
Listening questions
Improvising task
Music to encourage listening, movement and composing.
This short video is designed to help children listen to music. It’s based on the principle of Peter and the Wolf. Children listen out for the sounds of the river, the storm, the dinosaur and the bird. Then there is a PPT to guide the children towards composing their own piece of music. A “worksheet” to record their drawings or music symbols is included.
National Curriculum
• listen with concentration and understanding to a range of live and recorded music
• experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music.
Resources include
• 1. PPT and video of the piece of music
• 3. PPT guide to composing a piece of music.
• 4. A “worksheet” for children to draw their interpretations of the dinosaur, the bird, the river and the storm (Pictures or symbols) PPT and jpeg
• 5.Info sheet as to contents of resources.
• 6. Mp3 of the music .
This is a lesson aimed to get students to understand what a leitmotif is, hear a variety of examples, understand how they are used and give them an oppertunity to create their own.
This is an entire 10 lesson SOW with a Topic Booklet, PowerPoints and Sheet Music all included.
A fully integrated project incorporating Performing, Composing & Listening/Appraising.
Develops ensemble performing skills with differentiated parts.
Designed to help prepare KS3 students for GCSE music by introducing more complex concepts which will allow them to better understand music composition.
The SOW focusses on learning how to compose chord patterns and melodies. Students do this by studying 'Man in the Mirror' by Michael Jackson to learn about the key features. They then apply these features to composing their own pieces.
Key Features & Keywords Covered:
- Lyrics
- Instrumentation
- Texture
- Tonality
- Harmony
- Melody
- Time Signature
- Structure (Verse/Chorus)
- Mood
- Chords / Chord Patterns
- Sharps & Flats
- Ensemble Skills
- Scales
- Steps / Leaps
- Syllabic / Melismatic
- Phrasing
- Rhythmic Devices
- Repetition
This is a pack of worksheets to be used as part of a Blues scheme of work at KS3 or KS4. The contents include:
1. Improvising using the Blues Scale
2. The Blues scale for transposing instruments and guitar tab
3. The 12 Bar Blues structure for keyboard/piano
4. The 12 Bar blues for guitar and Uke
5. The Walking Bass for piano and bass guitar tab
6. Writing your own blues lyrics (also suitable as a cover lesson)
7. 12 Bar Blues composition worksheet
Great for getting students to learn how to play the blues and getting students to form their own bands and ensembles.
These resource materials offer 20 full activities to prepare students for the aural skills question for Music at GCSE level. There are 20 downloadable worksheets and answer sheets, also a copy of the full audio track of the piece. All worksheets are available in SCORCH format and can be printed to be used as individual tasks. It is also possible for teachers to save the worksheets, edit and create more worksheets using the given template.
Information and tasks on note duration, rhythm, staff notation, drum notation and guitar tab. Performance work using notation, differentiated success criteria, homework and evaluations included. Full term's work.
Listening, Performing and Composing tasks on the Carnival of Animals by Saint -Saens. Includes homework task and evaluation tasks. Enough work for 3- 4 lessons. Suitable for KS2 and KS3
A composing task in various steps:
Choose the key
Find out the chords
Find out the cadences
Compose an 8 bar chord sequence
Add a melody
Repeat with a contrasting set of chords.
These 9 worksheets follow a methodical approach that gives students a rounded knowledge of harmonising melodies.
A powerpoint presentation in pdf format.
A suitable resource for GCSE students or high ability KS3 students
A list of jazz/blues conventions which give a detailed description and guide of how to use them when composing in a jazz/blues style.
I found this made composing in a Jazz style very accessible for my students.
For all teachers and students undertaking the Pearson Edexcel GCSE 9-1 course, this presentation is a great starting point to give you some ideas for your composition to a set brief.
Contains the exact wording from the September 2024 set brief released by Pearson*
Through more than fifty slides, over 30 suggested listening examples, links and tutorials relating to each off the four areas of study, you will not be short of inspiration or ideas of how to start researching your chosen brief.
Included as both Powerpoint (slides) and PDF versions with hyperlinked images/YouTube videos and websites.
*(I acknowledge that this publication is not my property to sell).
6 levels of pieces for Ukulele in both tablature and treble clef notation.
pieces are:
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Happy Birthday
Baa Baa Black Sheep
5 Little Speckled Frogs
Fur Elise
Ode To Joy
Pieces increase in difficulty throughout booklet.
Enough work for several lessons. Listening, performance and composition tasks based on Mussorgsky's 'Pictures at an exhibition'. Includes evaluation tasks and homework task. Suitable for KS2, KS3 and KS4.
A 'Sector Skills Council' Factsheet on the Performing Arts industry, giving advice on all types of jobs in this area. Employment, careers, job roles, work-related learning, Range of opportunities, Types of work, Skills & qualities and Business structures / work roles, work placements, employability. (Apprenticeships, Further Education, Getting a Job, Higher Education, Work Experience, Volunteering é Gap Year, Self-employment/Entrepreneurship).
As part of the topic Conflict, we looked at the rhythm and melody at the beginning of Mars. The children then copied this music and created a small piece of of their own It was very simple, yet effective. Instructions as to how to given.
Part two helps children to describe the mood of the music and then examine their reaction to it..
Sound bites included in the Power Point 1
There is a section which helps pupils with the design of their reviews. Part 3 looks at pitch in more depth. See web page for original source