Sonority – Instrument Recognition Questions
The GCSE Music Specification includes many terms that students need to know, and be able to identify, but which aren’t covered by many of the styles of music studied.
Using only music from Popular Music, this revision resource brings together every instrument, voice and ensemble (apart from “basso continuo”, for obvious reasons!) from the sub-menu “Sonority”, ie instruments, voices, and ensembles.
In order to be accessible to students who really struggle with such things, there are 50 simple, 1-mark questions, which ask students to identify an instrument, voice type, or ensemble.
In addition, there is also a bonus question alongside every simple question, for students who find such things easier – so 100 questions in total!
So that the first group of students don’t feel like they’re underachieving, there are two different PDFs: one with just the 50 simple questions, and one with the bonus questions as well, so teachers can choose which to give their students.
The questions are in ten sections:
Strings
Woodwind
Brass
Percussion
Keyboards
Rock and Pop
Indian
Voices
Miscellaneous
Ensembles
The resource comes with a link to FREE audio, running for 1h15’, either as one file or ten separate files: perfect for a revision lesson, or as homework.
The extracts cover a wide range of Popular Music, and features music by the likes of Eva Cassidy, Led Zeppelin, Björk, Yes, Primus, Tanita Tikaram, The Meters, Minnie Riperton, Tom Waits, Genesis, Jamiroquai, Badly Drawn Boy, Freak Power, Blood, Sweat & Tears, and The Cure!
The bundle includes the full paper and mark scheme, plus two PDFs of questions (50, or 100), and mark scheme separately, in case you want to set it remotely.
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Double sided worksheet and teacher slides for a music cover lesson on film music. Suitable for both Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4.
The lesson includes six short activities: a starter, listening task, composition task (without instruments), a film technique question, reading activity and reflection. The lesson has been designed to be delivered without instruments or computers, though the lesson is easily adaptable to include a practical element should you wish. Prior teaching on the elements of music is recommended.
This is the perfect music lesson for a written music lesson or cover lesson with a non-specialist.
Please note: This resource includes both printable materials and audio files (MP3 format).
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Musical Instruments - Card Matching Activity
Activity and/or starter activity
READY TO PRINT - Using this resource, pupils match the cards of the instrument pictures with the cards of the instrument names.
Please find the included a PDF version of the resource and a Word document version (if you wanted to edit).
Thank you.
Double sided worksheet and teacher slides for a music cover lesson on musical theatre. Suitable for both Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4.
The lesson includes six short activities: a starter, listening task, composition task (without instruments), a song type question, reading activity and reflection. The lesson has been designed to be delivered without instruments or computers and students may need additional paper for the creative composition task. Prior teaching on the elements of music is recommended.
This is the perfect music lesson for a written music lesson or cover lesson with a non-specialist.
Please note: This resource includes both printable materials and audio files (MP3 format).
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Bring the joy of music into your classroom with this Musical Instruments Word Search! This engaging puzzle includes 30 musical instrument words such as guitar, piano, flute, drums, violin, trumpet, and more. It’s the perfect activity to introduce or review music vocabulary with students in 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th grade.
Great for music class, sub plans, early finishers, or fun homework!
Builds vocabulary and reinforces spelling in a fun way.
Printable and easy-to-use, no prep required.
Students will love finding all the hidden instruments while strengthening their reading and spelling skills.
This pack contains worksheets for 7 cover lessons on the topic of Instruments of the Orchestra.
It is suitable for KS3.
Each lesson contains enough work for a 1-hour lesson. Each sheet includes one or two extension tasks at the end. PDF documents can either be photocopied as a handout, with pupils completing the work on paper, or uploaded as a digital file.
Internet access required to complete the worksheets.
Included in the pack:
Strings
Woodwind
Brass
Percussion
Keyboards
Unusual instruments 1
Unusual instruments 2
Answer Sheets are included for each worksheet.
Independent cover work for KS3 Music lessons.
Covering 37 different topics, each on an individual worksheet with a text and then 8 related questions with 1 extended answer question.
Ideal for students to complete silently in a cover lesson or in isolation etc
Band Skills
Banjo
BB King
Beat Boxing
Blues
Coding
Djembe
Drum and Base
Drums
EDM
Effects
Grime
Guitar
Hans Zimmer
Harpsichord
Instruments of the orchestra
John Williams
Keyboards
Major and Minor
Musical Theatre
Percussion
Pop music
Film music
Rap artists
Rap
Peter Tosch
Reggae
Salsa
Saxophone
Sequencing
Singing
Steel Pans
TAB
Ukulele
Vocal Techniques
Chords
Yodelling
Cut and laminate these cards for sorting games and making sets.
Instruments can be sorted into:
brass
woodwind
percussion
keyboard
string
There are 24 instrument cards and 5 word cards.
A complete ESL lesson plan and set of resources to teach the names of musical instruments and a range of related lexical phrases at CEFR level B1. Also useful for ESOL and EAL classes.
Vocabulary:
Cello
Drums
Trumpet
Tambourine
Guitar
Accordion
Harp
Double Bass
Mandolin
Saxophone
Piano
Flute
Xylophone
Clarinet
Bagpipes
Violin
a[n] [woodwind, percussion, string, keyboard, electronic] instrument
It [sounds] [looks] like …
It’s similar to …
Resources:
Powerpoint presentation [+ musical audio excerpts]
A vocabulary worksheet
A complete lesson plan
Lesson One of a series of 6 lessons designed to teach children about musical instruments and instrumental families
Lesson one focuses on an introduction to different musical instruments and instrumental families with lessons 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 going into more detail on each individual instrumental family.
The idea of these lessons is to enable children to learn about musical instruments, instrumental families, and music more generally without the need for any specialist musical knowledge or practical music resources like instruments.
Lesson consists of a presentation and two worksheet packs. One worksheet pack on musical instruments and the other on instrumental families. There are more worksheets and activities as is necessary for one lesson to allows teachers and support staff to choose the most appropriate worksheets/activities for your students, and to allow the activities to cover a range of lessons and circumstances if need be. Some worksheets would make great starter / plenary tasks.
Presentation covers each of the instrumental families in brief detail, covering key features of each, instruments belonging to each family. It also explains how instrumental families are assigned and why. Activities and questions are embedded throughout the presentation to encourage students to have an active part in their learning. Animations and colour are used in a subtle way to engage children’s attention without being over-stimulating.
Worksheets involve a range of activities including: wordsearches, riddles, times tables, cut-and-stick, colour coding, unscrambling, matching, reading, and writing activities. Total of 15 worksheets included with answers where appropriate. Worksheets presented in a friendly manner with musical borders, simple instructions, and some images.
Listen to a variety of musical instruments and investigate how they make sounds in more detail. Explain how to change the pitch and loudness of instruments made in session E and then try out each other’s instruments. Discuss what children have learnt during Strand.
Suitable for Y5 pupils.
Worksheets and slides for classical music cover lessons. Four lessons are included: Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Instruments of the Orchestra.
Each lesson includes four activities: a listening task, a reading task (reading age 9), a crossword/word search and a creative task. The lessons have been designed to be delivered without practical instruments and students will require additional paper. Prior teaching on each topic is recommended.
This is the perfect orchestral music bundle for written music lessons or cover lessons with a non-specialist.
Please note: This resource includes both printable materials and audio files (MP3 format). Make sure to ‘enable content’ if the PowerPoint prompts you to, otherwise the audio may not play
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A standalone worksheet that can be used for a cover lesson, even when delivered by a non-specialist. Aimed at KS3, Year 7. No additional resources required - just print and go.
This high-quality worksheet is just the thing when you’re out of the classroom and don’t know who is going to be covering you. It contains all in the information that students need to answer the questions, with space to write on the worksheet. The resource is four pages long, providing plenty of activities to fill a lesson, but is large enough to be printed two sheets to a page and double sided so that each student only needs one sheet of paper.
You don’t need to worry about finding additional bits of paper or other resources. There is room to answer questions on the sheet and students only need a pen!
I wanted to make the resource as flexible as possible so that I can keep a class set printed and if there is an emergency I can just throw it on the desk and still know that my class has meaningful work to complete.
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Musical Instruments quiz and answers for KS3 or KS4 Students. Versatile editable resource for either an Online virtual lesson or a more traditional classroom based lesson. The topic of the quiz is Musical Instruments. A wide variety of different rounds including: matching rounds, photo rounds, linking rounds , number round, multiple choice round , designing round, word search, anagrams and much more…
Contents of Musical Instruments Quiz
☞ 1 x Professionally Designed Musical Instruments PowerPoint Quiz ( Containing 10 Different Rounds and over 50+ Questions)
☞1 x Set of certificates for winning students (Gold, Silver and Bronze)
☞ 1 x Full set of Answers (Animated at the end of the Quiz)
☞ 1 x Student Answer Sheets they can fill in during the quiz
☞ 1 x FULLY DIGITAL STUDENT ANSWER SHEET
☞ Quiz can be done as an individual task or in small teams.
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Use for a Lesson
Assess Prior knowledge
As a class based activity / Lesson
An educational ’ Treat Lesson ’ For your students.
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