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
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.
BOOKLET AND ANSWER BOOKLET
Topics:
Baroque Concerto
Classical Concerto
Romantic Concerto
Each style has summary sheets, a past paper listening question and checkpoint questions, as well as revision questions at the end of the booklet.
Answer booklet for teacher use to support with learning.
Ideal for homelearning, cover or teaching in the classroom. Designed with no equipment in mind, so can be adapted to specialist or non-specialist classrooms.
Each powerpoint has accompanying activities.
Bundle includes:
Carnival of the Animals - Saint-Saens
Danse Macabre - Saint-Saens
Peter and the Wolf - Prokofiev
Pictures at an Exhibition - Mussorgsky
The Planets - Holst
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.
Two/three lessons worth of rhythmic activities linking to Harry Potter Puppet Pals
Including:
Performance of Puppet Pals
Composition of own rhythms with a performance at the end
Powerpoint
Revision Cards
Key Questions for analytical listening
Based on conventions of each era (3 and 4 mark questions) of ALL areas of study:
Baroque
Classical
Romantic Piano
Romantic Requiem
Broadway
Film and Gaming
Rock Music
Popular Music
Blues
Reggae
African Fusion
Latin
Folk
Copland
Contemporary British Music
Hungarian
Minimalism
Each genre has a set of listening and research questions.
The genres included are: Blues, Jazz, Country, Rock, Funk, RnB, Punk, Rap, Pop and Electronica.