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GCSE composing strategies: Developing initial ideas and shaping a well crafted composition

GCSE composition workshops and analysis

Specialist teaching resource and student support materials

Tried and tested strategies for supporting students during the composing process, analytical listening and discussions around melodic development and transformation, reharmonising melodies when they return, limiting melodic range and allowing rhythm to do all the heavy lifting, simplifying melodic material to create the illusion of thematic development, making good use of sequence and inversion, using motor and cross rhythm to inject energy and provide direction, voicing and breaking up chords, the power of playlists, architectural overviews and ten 'easy wins' to lift the quality and cohesion of a composition without having to generate any new ideas.

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Edexcel GCSE Appraising - Section A, question 8: AOS 4 Fusions - Esperanza Spalding

Edexcel GCSE Section A, question 8

Specialist teaching resource

Materials to support students in preparing for Section A question 8 'unfamiliar' works, including elements driven aural training, score reading and practice questions - featuring the timbres, devices and characteristics of Brazilian Samba and Bossa Nova, Soul/Funk/Jazz fusions of Stevie Wonder, Bossa Nova/Jazz/Rock fusions of Milton Nascimento, Jazz influences of Ornette Coleman, Ron Carter and Wayne Shorter, Jazz/Rock/R&B fusions of Joni Mitchell.

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KS3 Cover lesson - Holst 'The Planets' part one

Cover lesson - requires sound and a screen

Can be delivered by a non specialist

Suitable for students with a solid foundation of music vocabulary, and a decent amount of analytical listening experience.

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KS3 Cover lesson - Holst 'The Planets' part two

Cover lesson - requires sound and a screen

Can be delivered by a non specialist

Suitable for students with a solid foundation of music vocabulary, and a decent amount of analytical listening experience.

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Edexcel GCSE Appraising - Section A, question 8: AOS 4 Fusions - Afro Celt Sound System

Edexcel GCSE Section A, question 8

Specialist teaching resource

Materials to support students in preparing for Section A question 8 'unfamiliar' works, including elements driven aural training, score reading and practice questions - featuring the timbres, devices and characteristics of traditional and contemporary Celtic Folk, traditional West African musics and African Fusions, Punjabi and British Bhangra, Arabic folk, Dub Reggae, Pop and EDM.

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A Level aural perception - Pack 5, exercises 17 to 20

Suitable for AQA, Eduqas, OCR and Pearson Edexcel

Classwork, tests, cover, homework, revision

Corelli, Gaga, Mozart, Milhaud. Melodic dictation with rhythm provided, rhythmic dictation with melody provided, compositional devices, keys, modulation, working out chord progressions, locating and correct errors, identifying the correct melodic line, connecting musical characteristics with time period.

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A Level aural perception - Pack 4, exercises 13 to 16

Suitable for AQA, Eduqas, OCR and Pearson Edexcel

Classwork, tests, cover, homework, revision

Lili Boulanger, Tchaikovsky, Dowland, The Beatles. Melodic dictation with rhythm provided, rhythmic dictation with melody provided, compositional devices, keys, modulation, working out chord progressions, locating and correct errors, identifying the correct melodic line, connecting musical characteristics with time period.

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A Level aural perception - Pack 3, exercises 9 to 12

Suitable for AQA, Eduqas, OCR and Pearson Edexcel

Classwork, tests, cover, homework, revision

Faure, Mascagni, Billy Joel, Elmer Bernstein. Melodic dictation with rhythm provided, rhythmic dictation with melody provided, pitch and rhythm dictation with nothing provided, compositional devices, keys, modulation, chord progressions, locating and correct errors, comparison questions, identifying the correct melodic line, connecting musical characteristics with aspects of provenance.

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AQA GCSE AOS 1: The piano music of Chopin and Robert Schumann

Specialist teaching resource for GCSE

AQA Areas of Study

Characteristics of Romantic piano music from simple programmatic collections of miniatures and study works for amateur music making, to the virtuosic world of the impromptu, ballade and concerto. The resource includes thumbprints of style, aural training exploring aspects of melodic writing, harmonic language, tonality, structure, texture, dynamics, rhythm, tempo, metre, the use of sonority, 'listening and appraising' questions and exam style questions. An additional wider listening playlist provides starting points for further questions to broaden and deepen students' understanding of style and genre.

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Edexcel GCSE Appraising - Section A, question 8: AOS 2 Vocal Art Music

Edexcel GCSE Section A, question 8

Specialist teaching resource

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, practice questions with answers, featuring works by Vivaldi, Handel, Strozzi, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Faure, Verdi, Puccini, Britten.