Measuring musical attainment and progress at KS3. How do you know when students are making musical progress, rather than just going through the motions of completing tasks and collecting a bunch of marks?
Minor chorales and the partnership between the home key and its relative major. In minor chorales, there’s a really strong pull towards the relative major, so this example and exercise is all about the partnership between the home (minor) key, its relative major, and the relative major’s relatives.
Opening phrases and making decisions about keys. The exercises in this resource remind students how important it is to consider how one phrase moves to the next, both in terms of part-writing and in the handling of the beautiful modulatory language of this genre.
Beautiful bass lines part 2. There are certain melodic shapes that are perfect for ‘set piece’ bass lines that move by step. In this example, the thing to look for is a repetition of the mediant on the downbeat that is quitted conjunctly.
Beautiful bass lines part 1. This exercise features an example and exercise that illustrates how Bach sometimes harmonises adjacent chords with the same chord, in the same position, and disguises the repetition by walking between and away from the onbeats with AUX and UPNs.
A pack of resources made up of a formative 'Assessment Ladder' to accompany performing, arranging, improvising and composing tasks, and a 30 minute summative ‘Listening and Appraising’ test featuring a short vocab quiz, two single-extract questions and one comparison question with embedded audio, listening test answers.
A pack of resources made up of a formative 'Assessment Ladder' to accompany performing, arranging, improvising and composing tasks, and a 30 minute summative ‘Listening and Appraising’ test featuring a short vocab quiz, two single-extract questions and one comparison question with embedded audio, listening test answers.
A pack of resources made up of a formative 'Assessment Ladder' to accompany performing, arranging, improvising and composing tasks, and a 30 minute summative ‘Listening and Appraising’ test featuring a short vocab quiz, two single-extract questions and one comparison question with embedded audio, listening test answers.
A pack of resources made up of a formative 'Assessment Ladder' to accompany performing, arranging, improvising and composing tasks, and a 30 minute summative ‘Listening and Appraising’ test featuring a short vocab quiz, two single-extract questions and one comparison question with embedded audio, listening test answers.
A pack of resources made up of a formative 'Assessment Ladder' to accompany performing, arranging, improvising and composing tasks, and a 30 minute summative ‘Listening and Appraising’ test featuring a short vocab quiz, two single-extract questions and one comparison question with embedded audio, listening test answers.
