Liz Dunbar

The core purpose of this unit is to enable all students to recognise that they are musicians, regardless of their starting point. Through hands-on singing and playing, listening and analysing, students develop their musical understanding of what it means to hear, think and respond like a musician. Resources include teaching materials, student exercises, 'do now' tasks and supporting teacher notes. 

KS3 music teaching resources, including a free integrated comprehensive scheme of work (SoW). Supports listening, composing, composition and performing. Performance, ensemble, solo, arranging and improvising activities. Assessment aligned with the national curriculum.

KS3 music teaching resources | Music Department Resources

KS3 Music scheme of work for year 7 term 1 'Building our Music Community'

Examples and practice questions focusing on the following specialist language: major, minor, modal, diatonic, pentatonic, functional, non-functional, chromatic, consonant, dissonant, microtonal, atonal, modulatory, modulation to dominant, relative major and relative minor. This resource also includes an additional playlist to use as the basis for devising further questions.

GCSE music resources elements. DR SMITH. Teaching materials. Revision. Listening and appraising. Dynamics. Rhythm. Melody. Instruments. Timbre. Sonority. Texture.Tonality. Harmony. Structure. Vocabulary. Vocab. Form. AQA. OCR. Eduqas. Edexcel.

GCSE music resources elements | Music Department Resources

Elements - Tonality

Exam style practice questions suitable for homework and revision

This collection offers exam-style listening and appraising practice questions for GCSE Music students. Designed around common elements across major exam boards (AQA, OCR, Edexcel, Eduqas), they provide regular opportunities to develop analytical listening skills outside of lesson time. Suitable for homework, revision, or cover work, with separate student and teacher versions.

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