This is a shop in which you can be sure of purchasing quality music resources. You truly do get what you pay for, and my prices reflect the standard that you can expect when you purchase one of my resources. Rainy Night Music is a name you can trust, and I invite you to contact me directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com if you have any questions, requests or suggestions. Thank you for your interest, and I look forward to welcoming you as a colleague-customer. Follow me on Twitter for lots more!
This is a shop in which you can be sure of purchasing quality music resources. You truly do get what you pay for, and my prices reflect the standard that you can expect when you purchase one of my resources. Rainy Night Music is a name you can trust, and I invite you to contact me directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com if you have any questions, requests or suggestions. Thank you for your interest, and I look forward to welcoming you as a colleague-customer. Follow me on Twitter for lots more!
This movement is ideal for study as part of the Stage 6 Music 2 HSC Program. As a full first movement from a Romantic Concerto, it fits into the mandatory area of study Western Music 1600-1900. A Sibelius score is an exceptionally powerful tool to have for analysing chords, themes, motives, and much more, at the click of a button. There are clear advantages of having a Sibelius score as a study aid. With the later versions of these scores, you can isolate individual parts to show melodic lines and harmonies more clearly, you can use the chord analysis and ‘find motive’ functions making analysis quicker and easier – and there are several other analysis plug-ins that Sibelius offer, making your life much easier. Another clear advantage of having a Sibelius Score in addition to a paper one is that it is an invaluable aid to improve score-reading: the playback line runs along with the music and students can better see what is happening. Certainly, my students all benefited from Sibelius scores for their set works – this particular Sibelius score (all 11 minutes of it) is the longest one I have ever input into the software! A complete list of versions included in this download pack is as follows: Sibelius 7.5; Sibelius 7; Sibelius 7 First; Sibelius 6; Sibelius 6 First; Sibelius 5; Sibelius 4. If you would like an earlier version, please just email me, and I’ll add it to the resource pack. Also included in the pack is a high-quality soundcard MP3 extraction of the full score for you to use in the classroom.
I really hope that you will enjoy my resources and find them useful. I pride myself on the quality of the resources that I publish, and I welcome feedback and enquiries from all of my colleague-customers across the world. I can be contacted directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com and I would be delighted to hear from you. Thank you for considering this resource for your classroom.
A bundle containing 18 tiered Music Bingo Games covering 6 broad musical themes: 3 x tiered Staff Notation games; 3 x tiered Signs and Symbols games; 3 x tiered Key Signatures games; 3 x tiered Chords games; 3 x tiered Intervals games; 3 x tiered Rhythm games.
Each Bingo Game has 15 different items – 270 musical items in total appear in this pack, spanning the 6 themes outlined above. Each theme has 3 tiered games, and each game has 12 unique playing cards, which can very realistically be doubled up for a class of 24 students.
Each of the 18 games has a master calling card containing either 2 or 3 tiered clues, allowing you to customise the level of challenge for your classes. You can also follow one of the pre-set calling patterns on the calling card to enable you to know which of the 12 cards should win, and when it should win – this also helps you to monitor how well students know the content, but in a fun, informal way.
Each unique playing card has a total of 9 of the 15 items from the calling card on it in a 3 x 3 grid, and the tiered clue system allows for flexibility in terms of the level of challenge that you pose to your students for each game. Nonetheless, Level 1 games are generally suitable for beginners in written music, Level 2 games for slightly more experienced musicians, and Level 3 games for more confident musicians.
In terms of specific age groups, you will find that you can use most of the 18 games for Key Stage 3, with only a few games more naturally appropriate to lower Key Stage 4 (Intervals). That being said, you will also find that you can use the tiered clue system to adapt most of the 18 games for Key Stage 4, too – so there is a lot of inherent flexibility!
Music Bingo is a fun, effective, and efficient way to learn or revise topics, and this bundle essentially offers you 6 sets for the price of 5. However, for your convenience, each of the 6 x 3-game sets in this bundle are available to buy individually, allowing you to focus on one theme if that better suits the needs of your students.
I really hope that you will enjoy my resources and find them useful. I pride myself on the quality of the resources that I publish, and I welcome feedback and enquiries from all of my colleague-customers across the world. I can be contacted directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com and I would be delighted to hear from you. Thank you for considering this resource for your classroom.
**A set of 3 tiered Music Bingo Games based on common musical signs and symbols. Level 1 would be suitable for beginners to reading music; Level 2 would be suitable for slightly more confident readers; Level 3 for more advanced students. **
Each of the 3 Bingo Games in this set has 15 different signs and symbols – a total of 45 different signs and symbols in the set. Each game has 12 unique playing cards, which can very realistically be doubled up for a class of 24 students. Each game also has a master calling card containing 2 clues (one easier, one more difficult) to describe each of the 15 signs and symbols on the calling card. Each unique playing card has a total of 9 of the 15 signs or symbols on it.
This set of 3 is specifically designed to facilitate and accommodate progress, working really well as both a fun revision tool and a general learning tool.
The Level 1 game is suitable for beginners, being based on basic accidentals, basic note durations and their rests, and basic clef symbols.
The Level 2 game is suitable for slightly more experienced musicians, being based on common structural signs, common time signature symbols, and dynamic/ articulation markings.
The Level 3 game is suitable for more confident musicians, being based on common ornament signs, and more specific structural and performance instructions (eg. sustain pedal on piano, coda sign, etc.
This set is available as part of a 6-pack Bingo Bundle, here: [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/music-bingo-bundle-12178022].
I really hope that you will enjoy my resources and find them useful. I pride myself on the quality of the resources that I publish, and I welcome feedback and enquiries from all of my colleague-customers across the world. I can be contacted directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com and I would be delighted to hear from you. Thank you for considering this resource for your classroom.
A Moment to Midnight is one of my original piano compositions, and it’s a great little piece to add to an A Level recital or University audition program. At just one and a half minutes long, it is perfect for topping up a student program to the required duration.
Other than that, it’s not only an engaging piece with enough challenge to keep more advanced piano students interested and busy, it’s a lovely piece to perform at a school concert. So many piano teachers have often told me that they struggle to provide their more able students with modern sheet music in a style that is accessible to them, so I’m delighted to combine two of my passions with this new line of resources for piano teachers.
I estimate the piece to be in line with Grade 8 ABRSM standard (some tricky left hand), but I recommend that you please watch the promotional video, which will enable you to decide whether the piece is the right level (and style) for your students. With regards to the style, it’s indebted to the music from the Final Fantasy game series – pieces like To Zanarkand by Nobuo Uematsu – a great inspiration to me as a composer.
Included in this purchase is a full PDF score and MP3 Audio of this piece. I welcome feedback and enquiries from my colleague-customers all over the world, and I can be contacted directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com. I would be delighted to hear from you, and I thank you for considering this resource for your students. I hope you enjoy it.
This resource bundle comprises more than 15 hours of activities across 50 Worksheets, designed for Years 10 and 11. The worksheets are available separately in 5 sets of 10, and they all come complete with a detailed answer book, and 4 sets also contain a detailed teacher guide. These resources can be used for a variety of different purposes, including: homework tasks, tests, revision, whole cover lessons, and distance learning. Furthermore, individual questions from worksheets can be used as starter activities.
Specifically, the contents and topics of the worksheets in this pack are as follows:
10 x worksheets, answer sheets, and a teacher guide on Scales and Modes: identifying major, and harmonic and melodic minor scales using fixed-interval semitone patterns (for both the bass and treble clef); adding accidentals to create major, and harmonic and melodic minor scales (in the bass and treble clef); using key signatures to create associated major, and related harmonic and melodic minor scales (in bass and treble clef notation); identifying Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, and Locrian modes using fixed-interval semitone patterns (again, in both the bass and treble clef); creating modes on different starting notes using knowledge of fixed-interval semitone patterns (on bass and treble staves).
10 x worksheets and answer sheets on General Music Analysis: each worksheet in this pack incorporates a short 8 to 16 bar piano composition, which is an original piece composed by myself – so there is a guarantee that your students will have never seen this music before! There are 20 questions on each piece, covering a wide variety of topics appropriate to the music. Topics include, but are not limited to: rhythmic, harmonic, and melodic devices; metre and tempo; cadence, chord, and interval recognition; foreign terms (up to approximately Grade 5 ABRSM Theory Level); structural features such as repeats and time bars… and there is so much more, too.
10 x worksheets, answer sheets, and a teacher guide on Rhythm and Metre: adding beams in simple and compound metres, focusing particularly on rules regarding crossing the centre of the bar; re-writing 4-bar rhythms using tied notes to correct errors in note grouping and placement in both simple and compound metres; re-writing 4-bar rhythms using the correct rests to correct errors in rest grouping and placement in both simple and compound metres; adding barlines to complex rhythms which include double-dotted notes and rests in both simple and compound time; re-writing short 4-bar rhythms which contain a variety of errors taken from all topics in Worksheets 1 to 8 (beams, tied notes, rests, double-dotted notes and rests).
10 x worksheets, answer sheets, and a teacher guide on Intervals and Melody: identifying and creating major, minor, perfect, augmented, and diminished intervals (for both the bass and treble clef); identifying non-harmony notes such as passing, neighbour, escape, and anticipation notes (in the bass and treble clef); identifying ornament symbols and realisations; creating realisations of ornaments, including, turns, trills, acciaccaturas, appoggiaturas, mordents, and glissandos; identifying melodic shape, including scalic, conjunct, triadic, and disjunct shapes; identifying the scales used to create short melodies, including major, minor, pentatonic, blues, and whole tone scales, then labelling notes with their corresponding scale degrees; creating sequences and inversions to develop melodies.
10 x worksheets, answer sheets, and a teacher guide on Chords and Keys: identifying major, minor, augmented, and diminished chords using fixed-interval semitone patterns (for both the bass and treble clef); identifying primary and secondary chords within a stated key (in the bass and treble clef); identifying diatonic and chromatic chords within and outside of a stated key (in bass and treble clef notation); identifying cadences within keys (again, in both the bass and treble clef); creating, labelling, and identifying chords and chord progressions using Roman Numerals, including root, 1st inversion, and 2nd inversion positions (on bass and treble staves); identifying keys, key relationships, and key signatures; identifying, labelling, and creating 7th chords; identifying modulations and pivot chords in short passages of written music.
As always, I take great care to ensure my resources are of the highest quality – both in content and in presentation – and I wholeheartedly recommend them to both you and your students. I welcome feedback and enquiries from my colleague-customers all over the world, and I can be contacted directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com. I would be delighted to hear from you, and I thank you for considering this resource for your classroom.
This structured resource pack is a great introduction to analysing music and is perfect for young students between Year 2 and 5 who are beginning their learning journey in Music, or for older students at secondary level with lower ability. It is also ideal for cover lessons, home-schooling, and – of course – for a great Friday afternoon class activity! Furthermore, it works really well as a ‘composer of the week’ activity – each Set in this Series includes at least one Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern composer, and no composer appears in any other Set in the Series.
Five whole 1-hour lessons are included in the pack with fun, themed colouring worksheets for the students, a 25-slide detailed PowerPoint with up-to-date YouTube links, and full teaching guidance so that you will feel completely supported whether you are a music specialist, or not. This is Set 2 in my Primary Music Listening Activities Series.
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Students use their knowledge of colours to help them understand musical features relating to the musical elements. There are 5 themed lessons, each with its own colouring-in worksheet: The Desert Island; Ramble in the Jungle; The Garden at Night; Down by the River; Lost in Time. A specific piece of famous classical music is the focus of each lesson, and the music has some kind of link to the theme. For instance: Lost in Time is based on the 2nd Movement of Haydn’s ‘Clock’ Symphony; Handel’s 3rd Water Music Suite is the one for Down by the River.
Each student worksheet has 8 pairs of numbered statements. Two or three of the eight are opinion-based (such as ‘I like/ do not like this music’). The other 5 or 6 are related to musical elements and specific features of the piece of music used for the lesson. For example: The music is fast/ slow. Each statement has a colour pattern to use, and where statements are a little more complex (such as ‘I can hear only woodwind instruments’ or ‘I can hear woodwind and brass instruments’) they can link their knowledge of colour to reach the right answer. For instance: a child of 5 to 9 years old may not be able to distinguish between woodwind and brass instruments, but they will know that an alligator should not be orange and purple! So, to colour an alligator orange and purple is wrong; it should be Green, which is the colour pattern linked to the correct musical statement. As they colour and listen to the music (which they should always be encouraged to do) they will learn to recognise this sound.
I take great care to ensure my resources are of the highest quality – both in content and in presentation – and I wholeheartedly recommend them to both you and your students. I welcome feedback and enquiries from my colleague-customers all over the world, and I can be contacted directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com. I would be delighted to hear from you, and I thank you for considering this resource for your classroom or home.
This structured resource pack is a great introduction to analysing music and is perfect for young students between Year 2 and 5 who are beginning their learning journey in Music, or for older students at secondary level with lower ability. It is also ideal for cover lessons, home-schooling, and – of course – for a great Friday afternoon class activity! Furthermore, it works really well as a ‘composer of the week’ activity – each Set in this Series includes at least one Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern composer, and no composer appears in any other Set in the Series.
Five whole 1-hour lessons are included in the pack with fun, themed colouring worksheets for the students, a 25-slide detailed PowerPoint with up-to-date YouTube links, and full teaching guidance so that you will feel completely supported whether you are a music specialist, or not. This is Set 3 in my Primary Music Listening Activities Series.
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Students use their knowledge of colours to help them understand musical features relating to the musical elements. There are 5 themed lessons, each with its own colouring-in worksheet: Above the Treetops; At the Zoo; Braving the Dunes; Little Night-Crawlers; On Thin Ice. A specific piece of famous classical music is the focus of each lesson, and the music has some kind of link to the theme. For instance: On Thin Ice is based on the 2nd Movement of Tchaikovsky’s ‘Winter Dreams’ Symphony No. 1; Saint-Saens’ Carnival of the Animals is the one for At the Zoo.
Each student worksheet has 8 pairs of numbered statements. Two or three of the eight are opinion-based (such as ‘I like/ do not like this music’). The other 5 or 6 are related to musical elements and specific features of the piece of music used for the lesson. For example: The music is fast/ slow. Each statement has a colour pattern to use, and where statements are a little more complex (such as ‘I can hear only string instruments’ or ‘all instruments play all of the time’) they can link their knowledge of colour to reach the right answer. For instance: a child of 5 to 9 years old may not be able to distinguish between the sound of strings, as opposed to strings with woodwind instruments, but they will know that a Penguin should not be red and blue! So, to colour a penguin red and blue is wrong; it should be black and white, which is the colour pattern linked to the correct musical statement. As they colour and listen to the music (which they should always be encouraged to do) they will learn to recognise this sound.
I take great care to ensure my resources are of the highest quality – both in content and in presentation – and I wholeheartedly recommend them to both you and your students. I welcome feedback and enquiries from my colleague-customers all over the world, and I can be contacted directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com. I would be delighted to hear from you, and I thank you for considering this resource for your classroom or home.
Ideal for cover, primary outreach, or distance learning, this structured resource pack is a great introduction to analysing music, and is perfect for young students between Years 2 and 5 who are beginning their learning journey in Music, or for older students with lower ability. It’s also great for a regular Friday afternoon class activity, working really well as a Composer of the Week resource.
Five whole 1-hour lessons are included in the pack with fun, themed colouring worksheets for the students, a 25-slide detailed PowerPoint with up-to-date YouTube links, and full teaching guidance so that you will feel completely supported whether you are a music specialist, or not. This is Set 4 in my Primary Music Listening Activities Series, and this set focuses on special occasions.
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Students use their knowledge of colours to interpret musical features relating to the musical elements. There are 5 themed lessons, each with its own colouring-in worksheet: The Witch’s Cave; In the Grotto; The Forbidden City; Rainbow’s End; Easter Egg Valley. A specific piece of relevant classical or world music is the focus of each lesson: e.g: the Christmas-themed ‘In the Grotto’ is based on Elgar’s A Christmas Greeting; Whelan’s Lament of Cú Chullain from Riverdance is the focus for the St. Patrick’s Day-themed ‘Rainbow’s End’. Halloween, Chinese New Year, and Easter are the other special occasions in this resource pack.
Each worksheet has 8 pairs of numbered statements, 2 or 3 of which are opinion-based, and the others are related to specific features of the piece of music used for the lesson. Each statement has a colour pattern, and where statements are a little more complex students can use their knowledge of colour to find the right answer. For instance: young musicians may not be able to distinguish between flutes and clarinets, but they will know a Tiger is orange and black, not blue and purple! So, the correct colour pattern matches the correct musical statement, allowing students to listen to the music whilst they colour-in, focusing on the sound of a flute, clarinet, or on whatever the musical statement is about; over time, they learn to recognise the sounds.
This system allows young students to develop musical analysis skills by building on prior knowledge of colour, not to mention familiarisation with composers and music from the Western Classical Tradition, and even from world music composers in this set. Also, the opinion-based questions offer great opportunities for emotional and social development.
I take great care to ensure my resources are of the highest quality – both in content and in presentation – and I wholeheartedly recommend them to both you and your students. I welcome feedback and enquiries from my colleague-customers all over the world, and I can be contacted directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com. I would be delighted to hear from you, and I thank you for considering this resource for your classroom or home.
Ideal for cover, primary outreach, or distance learning, this value-packed bundle is a great introduction to analysing music, and is perfect for students between Years 2 and 5 who are beginning their learning journey in Music, or for older students with lower ability. It’s also great as a regular Friday afternoon class activity, serving as an engaging Composer of the Week resource.
TWENTY-FIVE whole 1-hour lessons are included in the pack with fun, themed colouring worksheets for the students, 5 x 25-slide detailed PowerPoints with up-to-date YouTube links, and 5 x full teacher guidance booklets so that you will feel completely supported whether you are a music specialist, or not. This bundle contains Sets 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 in my Primary Music Listening Activities Series.
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Students use their knowledge of colours to help them understand musical features relating to the musical elements. There are 5 themed lessons in each Set, each with its own colouring-in worksheet, and a specific piece of classical music with a link to the theme provides the focus for each lesson. Sets 1 to 3 focus on the most well-known works from the Western Classical Tradition; Set 4 focuses on special occasions; Set 5 focuses on female composers.
Each worksheet has 8 pairs of numbered statements, 2 or 3 of which are opinion-based, and the others are related to specific features of the piece of music used for the lesson. Each statement has a colour pattern, and where statements are a little more complex students can use their knowledge of colour to find the right answer. For instance: young students may find it difficult to distinguish between woodwind and brass instruments, but they will know that a panda is black and white, rather than purple and green! So, the correct color pattern is linked to the correct musical statement, allowing students to listen to the music whilst they colour-in, focusing on the sound of whatever it is that the musical statements refer to; over time, they learn to recognise these sounds and musical features.
This system allows young students to develop musical analysis skills by building on prior knowledge of colour, not to mention familiarisation with a vast range of music and composers in the Western Classical Tradition. Also, the opinion-based questions offer great opportunities for emotional and social development.
I take great care to ensure my resources are of the highest quality, both in content and in presentation, and I wholeheartedly recommend them to both you and your students. I welcome feedback and enquiries from my colleague-customers the world over, and I can be contacted directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com. I would be delighted to hear from you, and I thank you for considering this resource for your classroom or home.
Ideal for cover, primary outreach, or distance learning, this structured resource pack is a great introduction to analysing music, and is perfect for young students between Years 2 and 5 who are beginning their learning journey in Music, or for older students with lower ability. It’s also great as a regular Friday afternoon class activity, especially as an engaging Composer of the Week resource.
Five whole 1-hour lessons are included in the pack with fun, themed colouring worksheets for the students, a 25-slide detailed PowerPoint with up-to-date YouTube links, and full teaching guidance so that you will feel completely supported whether you are a music specialist, or not. This is Set 5, and the final set, in my Primary Music Listening Activities Series, and this set focuses on female composers.
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Students use their knowledge of colours to help them understand musical features relating to the musical elements. There are 5 themed lessons, each with its own colouring-in worksheet: On Loch Ness; Stuck ‘Outback’; The Souvenir Shop; Treasure Hunt; Around the Campfire. A specific piece of classical music is the focus of each lesson, and the music has a link to the theme. For instance: ‘On Loch Ness’ is based on the 2nd movement of Amy Beach’s Gaelic Symphony; Fanny Hensel’s Nocturne in G Minor is the focus for ‘Around the Campfire’. Louise Farrenc, Clara Schumann, and Barbara Strozzi are the other female composers featured in this resource pack.
Each worksheet has 8 pairs of numbered statements, 2 or 3 of which are opinion-based, and the others are related to specific features of the piece of music used for the lesson. Each statement has a colour pattern, and where statements are a little more complex students can use their knowledge of colour to find the right answer. For instance: young musicians may not be able to distinguish between flutes and clarinets, but they will know a Koala should not be blue and red! So, the correct colour pattern matches the correct musical statement, allowing students to listen to the music whilst they colour-in, focusing on the sound of a flute, clarinet, or on whatever the musical statement is about; over time, they learn to recognise the sounds.
This system allows young students to develop musical analysis skills by building on prior knowledge of colour, not to mention familiarisation with female composers of the Western Classical Tradition, who are often unfairly ignored. Also, the opinion-based questions offer great opportunities for emotional and social development.
I take great care to ensure my resources are of the highest quality, both in content and in presentation, and I wholeheartedly recommend them to both you and your students. I welcome feedback and enquiries from my colleague-customers the world over, and I can be contacted directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com. I would be delighted to hear from you, and I thank you for considering this resource for your classroom or home.
This is a whole lot of Christmas fun for your music students! Depending upon ability and age group, there is enough in this pack to keep students occupied and engaged for 1 or 2 whole 1-hour lessons, making it perfect for the last week before Christmas! It’s aimed at Year 6 to 8, but it can work with any students who have a basic musical knowledge, provided they can indulge in the Christmas Eve storyline below!
Students have to ‘Save Christmas’ because Santa is having a nightmare! It begins with Santa having overslept, and Rudolf can’t wake him without the magic word, which is written in treble staff music notation and all jumbled up. Students have to solve the mystery! No sooner have they woken Santa, he can’t start the sleigh – another magic word has to be revealed, this time by rearranging bass staff notation! Finally, he leaves the North Pole, but he’s lost the map for his special route over Europe, so students need the help of famous European composers to calculate the correct route. Next stop is Africa, but Santa gets stuck in a chimney in Ghana and a special code is needed to get into the magic glitter box that Rudolf can sprinkle on him to free him! The trouble is the code is written in notation and students need to convert it to numbers to reveal the code. Next stop is Asia, and disaster strikes for Santa right at the end of the leg when all the presents fall off the sleigh, landing on some tiny island in the Indian Ocean! A group of mathematical and musical pandas have written out some musical sums which reveal the GPS co-ordinates of the island. Students need to locate it! After recovering the presents, a sandstorm over Australia threatens to bring the sleigh down, but with the help of some friendly Australian animals and some musical instruments, students can reveal the password which speeds up the reindeer, avoiding the storm. On the final leg of the journey, weather threatens Christmas again when a dense fog covers The Americas. With the help of some flags and musical styles, students can safely navigate Santa across the continents and truly ‘Save Christmas’.
It is a whole lot of fun and students love it – and with full answers and basic guidance provided, you’ll love it too! In the process of completing these activities, students get to use their skills in, and knowledge of, treble and bass staff notation, note durations, instruments, composers, and musical styles – PLUS there’s elements of numeracy, literacy, and geography for some great blended learning, this festive period.
I am extremely proud of all my resources and I endeavour to publish work of only the highest quality for you. I greatly value feedback, suggestions, and enquiries from all of my colleague-customers around the world, and I invite you to contact me by email at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com should you wish to ask me anything about my work. Many thanks for considering this resource.
Bring something a little bit different to your music classroom for Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, or Chanukah, by studying and celebrating the wonderful traditional music of the Ashkenazi Jews – Klezmer. This is a fully-resourced project aimed at Years 9 to 10, but it would also work for higher-ability Year 8 classes. There are enough activities for more than 3 hours of fun-packed, exciting, quality learning.
This project deals first with characteristics of Klezmer Music, and then moves onto Klezmer instruments. Listening and written tasks are incorporated, here. Students are introduced to the Avaha Rabboh mode with opportunities to create their own. Students then meet Albert Einstein, one of the most famous Ashkenazi Jews, and learn all about his musical talents (he was a violinist!). Then, you have the option to deliver the linked PSHCE task studying Einstein’s lifelong commitment to nuclear disarmament. Students then learn a little about drum notation, before moving onto the main task, which is a 5-part Sher Dance, composed by myself: Poyk; Bass; Accordion/ Guitar; Fiddle; Clarinet (all of which can be performed on a keyboard with synthesised voices). Students are taken through each part, and then set to task on a group performance. Extension tasks offer the opportunity to include dreydlekh (Klezmer ornamentation) in the form of glitshn and krekhts, or to create their own exciting Klezmer drum beat using their newfound knowledge of drum notation. Finally, students assess themselves against the 10-point success criteria on the PowerPoint and complete an evaluation.
In this download pack, you will receive:
1 x Starter Word Search introducing key words associated with Klezmer Music (Literacy)
1 x 17-page worksheet with 10 separate tasks covering the whole range of listening, theory, and performing skills, plus contextual and historical knowledge of Klezmer.
1 x MP4 4-minute annotated introduction to Klezmer Music video.
1 x 23-slide PowerPoint, beautifully presented and animated with objectives, outcomes, and every single task ‘chunked’ for easy content delivery, including answers, extension tasks, embedded audio files, and much more.
1 x 4000-word Teacher guide, fully explaining and supporting every PowerPoint slide, along with teaching strategies and other useful suggestions.
1 x Main task focusing on group performance.
1 x Extension task full score in PDF format.
24 x MP3 files modelling the individual parts, the main task and extension tasks.
1 x ‘Einstein and Nuclear Disarmament’ fact sheet. (PSHCE)
1 x Crossword for a homework or revision task. (Numeracy)
I am extremely proud of all my resources and I endeavour to publish work of only the highest quality for you. I greatly value feedback, suggestions, and enquiries from all of my colleague-customers around the world, and I invite you to contact me by email at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com should you wish to ask me anything about my work. Many thanks for considering this resource.
If you are interested in buying this bundle, take a look at this one first - you get everything in this bundle PLUS an additional 14 x interactive revision quizzes ideal for Easter Revision, and it will only cost an additional £3 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/gcse-music-revision-activities-bundle-12041321
If you are running a GCSE Music course, this bundle is absolutely invaluable. It offers the opportunity to pay just 8 pence per activity for structured, staged, and high quality (content and presentation) resources covering over 350 key terms and definitions for whichever GCSE specification you are using. Included is: 44 x word searches to pre-teach vocabulary; 44 x flash card templates to pre-teach definitions; 44 x mix ‘n’ match activities to teach/ revise vocabulary and definitions; 44 x crossword puzzles to use for revision activities. PLUS you can re-use all the mix ‘n’ match resources to create indefinite Quiz-Quiz-Trade activities for revision starters and plenaries in Year 11. A lot of money, but the value is truly unbeatable.
I really hope that you will enjoy my resources and find them useful. I pride myself on the quality of the resources that I publish, and I welcome feedback and enquiries from all of my colleague-customers across the world. I can be contacted directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com and I would be delighted to hear from you. Thank you for considering this resource for your classroom.
No matter which GCSE Music specification you are offering, every single one of the 190 - let me say that again 190! - activities in this pack will help your students master the language for learning/ terminology/ vocab - call it what you will - for the GCSE Music course.
Included in this pack is:
44 x word searches to pre-teach vocabulary
44 x flash card templates to pre-teach definitions
44 x mix ‘n’ match activities to teach/ revise vocabulary and definitions
44 x crossword puzzles to use for revision activities. (PLUS you can re-use all the mix ‘n’ match resources to create indefinite Quiz-Quiz-Trade activities for revision starters and plenaries in Year 11.)
14 x Interactive Quizzes covering all elemental areas, Music general knowledge, and even common foreign terms (up to ABRSM Grade 5 ABRSM standard).
I really hope that you will enjoy my resources and find them useful. I pride myself on the quality of the resources that I publish, and I welcome feedback and enquiries from all of my colleague-customers across the world. I can be contacted directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com and I would be delighted to hear from you. Thank you for considering this resource for your classroom.
**A set of 3 tiered Music Bingo Games based on key signatures. The unique triple-tiered set of clues for this pack makes each game customisable for a range of different abilities. **
Each of the 3 Bingo Games in this set has all 15 standard key signatures, which are presented in a variety of clefs. Each game has 12 unique playing cards, which can very realistically be doubled up for a class of 24 students. Each game also has a master calling card containing 3 clues (one easier, one more difficult, and one hard) to describe each of the key signatures on the calling card. Each unique playing card has a total of 9 of the 15 key signatures on it.
This set of 3 is specifically designed to facilitate and accommodate progress, whilst at the same time being extremely flexible. This set contains 3 different tiers of clues, enabling the teacher to focus on anything from counting accidentals and familiarisation with the relevant clef (Clue 1), to thinking about relative minor keys (Clue 3). As such, you can choose to make Level 1 relatively hard, and Level 3 relatively easy simply through choosing which set of clues to read.
Nonetheless, the Level 1 game is based on the treble clef; the Level 2 game is based on the bass clef; the Level 3 game is based on the alto clef.
This set is available as part of a 6-pack Bingo Bundle, here: [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/music-bingo-bundle-12178022].
I really hope that you will enjoy my resources and find them useful. I pride myself on the quality of the resources that I publish, and I welcome feedback and enquiries from all of my colleague-customers across the world. I can be contacted directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com and I would be delighted to hear from you. Thank you for considering this resource for your classroom.
These cards are such fun, and they are an incredibly good way for students of all abilities to build an understanding of chords, scales, and clefs. The beauty of these cards – which are based on a standard deck of ordinary playing cards – is that the game can be played at any level.
If your younger students have a basic knowledge of treble and bass staff notation along with simple major and minor 3-note chords, then they can enjoy this game in full. If your older students have super-advanced knowledge up to and including alto and tenor staff notation along with augmented and Neapolitan 6th chords (and beyond!) then the game can be played at that level instead.
After inventing this game, I had my own set of these cards professionally printed and I bring them to dinner parties when I am surrounded by fellow music teachers – it is honestly the best thing any of us play together, which is why I advertise this game as being for both the classroom and the staffroom.
The aim of the game is simple: collect the note pitches that you want (or need) to create whichever chords and scales you want; when you have what you need, play your ‘hand’ and earn the number of points on the cards that you play. The game ends when you want it to, and could go on for hours, or just 15 minutes before the end of the lesson (or the start of parent evenings)! Please watch the video to gain further insight into this resource, which I cannot recommend enough to you.
The files are all PDF documents: a master card PDF from which you can print all the cards, correctly aligned front to back for convenience (laminate them for longevity); a full explanation of the rules of the game on a second PDF document; finally, a PDF scorecard, including space for up to 70 entries for 5 players for easy tracking of the scores.
I really hope that you will enjoy my resources and find them useful. I pride myself on the quality of the resources that I publish, and I welcome feedback and enquiries from all of my colleague-customers across the world. I can be contacted directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com and I would be delighted to hear from you. Thank you for considering this resource for your classroom.
This substantially resourced pack builds upon prior knowledge of intervals, major and minor scales, including the creation of triads, through a detailed study of the Pentatonic Scale and its modes, alongside the two most common Hexatonic Scales, the Whole Tone Scale and the Blues Scale. It is appropriate for all GCSE Music exam boards, AQA, Edexcel, OCR, and Eduqas, and should take about 2 hours to teach. It may also be used as a bridging topic for A Level Music.
Specifically, the pack includes the following high-quality materials: an original 6-page text-book style handout, with diagrams and annotations, covering the entire content of the topic; a 5-page worksheet containing written activities relating to the creation of the scales and their triads, and a listening activity relating to the recognition of Blues Scale, Pentatonic, and Whole Tone melodies; 10 x 30-second-long MP3 files for the listening activity (also embedded into the PowerPoint); 1 x 34-slide comprehensive and beautifully animated PowerPoint, with detailed teaching guidance notes for every single slide, making delivery of content an absolute breeze; 4-page answer sheet for the activities. Please note that the handout, activity sheet, and answer sheet are all on the same (15-page) PDF document.
The content in this topic will enable students to create Pentatonic, Blues, and Whole Tone Scales and triads, understand how the Pentatonic Scale is placed into modes to change its sound, and they will gain vital experience in hearing and distinguishing between melodies made from these scales. It will be invaluable for their composition work, increasing the scope of their imaginations with regard to tonality.
I take great care to ensure my resources are of the highest quality – both in content and in presentation – and I wholeheartedly recommend them to both you and your students. I welcome feedback and enquiries from my colleague-customers all over the world, and I can be contacted directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com. I would be delighted to hear from you, and I thank you for considering this resource for your classroom.
