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Elements - Rhythmic devices

Specialist teaching resource

Suitable for AQA, OCR, Edexcel and Eduqas GCSE specifications

Examples and practice questions focusing on the following specialist language: syncopation, dotted rhythms, scotch snap/Lombardic rhythms, triplets, shuffle and swung rhythms, downbeat and anacrusis, polyrhythm and cross rhythm, augmentation and diminution, hemiola. This resource also includes an additional playlist to use as the basis for devising further questions.

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Elements - Metre

Specialist teaching resource

Suitable for AQA, OCR, Edexcel and Eduqas GCSE specifications

Examples and practice questions focusing on the following specialist language: time signature, simple duple, triple, quadruple, compound duple, triple, quadruple, asymmetric metres, metric change. This resource also includes an additional playlist to use as the basis for devising further questions.

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Elements Revision - Metre

Useful for both classwork and self directed study

Suitable for AQA, OCR, Edexcel and Eduqas GCSE specifications

Listening questions to support students' identification of simple duple, triple, quadruple, compound duple, triple, quadruple, asymmetric metres, metric change.

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Elements - Melody: Describing melodic movement

Specialist teaching resource

Suitable for AQA, OCR, Edexcel and Eduqas GCSE specifications

Examples and practice questions focusing on the following specialist language: step, leap, conjunct, disjunct, scalic, triadic, arpeggiaic, rising, falling, ascending and descending sequences, repetition, range. This resource also includes an additional playlist to use as the basis for devising further questions.

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Elements - Melody: Aural perception and melodic dictation

Specialist teaching resource

Suitable for AQA, OCR, Edexcel and Eduqas GCSE specifications

Exercises to support pitch dictation, melodic shape identification, comparison, interval recognition, melodic devices, ornamentation, scale types, degrees of the scale, alongside strengthening the application of specialist vocabulary in context.

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Elements Revision - Melody: Describing melodic movement

Useful for both classwork and self directed study

Suitable for AQA, OCR, Edexcel and Eduqas GCSE specifications

Listening questions to provide students with the opportunity to practice describing how melodies move in context covering step, leap, conjunct, disjunct, scalic, triadic, arpeggiaic, rising, falling, ascending and descending sequences, repetition and range.

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Elements Revision - Tonality

Useful for both classwork and self directed study

Suitable for AQA, OCR, Edexcel and Eduqas GCSE specifications

Listening questions to support students' identification of major, minor, modal, diatonic, functional, non-functional, chromatic, microtonal, consonant and dissonant tonalities.

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Elements - Harmony: Harmonic devices

Specialist teaching resource

Suitable for AQA, OCR, Edexcel and Eduqas GCSE specifications

Examples and practice questions focusing on the following specialist language: pedal note, drone, ground bass, chordal ostinato, Tierce de Picardie, circle of 5ths. This resource also includes an additional playlist to use as the basis for devising further questions.

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Elements Revision - Harmony: Harmonic devices

Useful for both classwork and self directed study

Suitable for AQA, OCR, Edexcel and Eduqas GCSE specifications

Listening questions to support students' identification of pedal note, drone, ground bass, chordal ostinato, Tierce de Picardie, circle of 5ths modulation, alongside strengthening the application of specialist vocabulary in context.

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Elements - Harmony: Cadences and keys

Specialist teaching resource

Suitable for AQA, OCR, Edexcel and Eduqas GCSE specifications

Examples and practice questions focusing on the following specialist language: perfect, imperfect, plagal and interrupted cadences, functional harmony, key relationships and the circle of 5ths in relation to key relationships. This resource also includes an additional playlist to use as the basis for devising further questions.