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Sometimes you want to make embedded videos 'full screen' during lessons so that students can see all the detail on a score, or get a closer look at an unfamiliar instrument. It's also a nice thing to do, simply for the spectacle of a performance. Select 'full screen' bottom right on the embedded video, and 'esc' top left on your qwerty to go back to the original slide pack.
GCSE composing - developing ideas
Once GCSE students are over the initial hump of generating ideas for their compositions, many find it difficult to take the next step and start developing their material. This pack of exercises and top tips is designed to help. Each short 'development' task can be used as the basis for whole class composing workshops, or for students to explore independently.
Edexcel GCSE Appraising paper, section A question 8
Materials to support students in preparing for Section A question 8 'unfamiliar' works, including thumbprints of genres and period, elements driven aural training, score reading and exam-style practice questions. While there's plenty of stuff out there on set works, the MDR resources are designed to broaden repertoire knowledge, deepen musical understanding, develop student's ability to hear like a musician, differentiate between the elements with ease, and make long lasting connections between sound, symbol and the specialist language we use to describe it.
