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

KS3 complete schemes and supporting materials
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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.

Elements - Tonality
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Elements - Tonality

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Suitable for AQA, OCR, Edexcel and Eduqas GCSE specifications

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.

Four-part harmony exercise 14 and test 2
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Four-part harmony exercise 14 and test 2

Suitable for all exam boards that have an SATB J.S.Bach chorale four part harmony question
classwork, tests, cover, homework, revision

Perfect cadence corner cases featuring 'the ‘Wenceslas’, echappes and other non-chord notes in the soprano, anticipation of the tonic, dotted crotchet-quaver melodies, and test 2.

GCSE composing workshops: The ostinato
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GCSE composing workshops: The ostinato

GCSE composition workshops and analysis
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Six composition workshops with supporting analytical listening resources that focus on the creation and handling of melodic (interlocking patterns), harmonic (functional and parallel), and rhythmic ostinati (polyrhythmic layering).

NYO guide to the orchestra, part 5 - Percussion
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NYO guide to the orchestra, part 5 - Percussion

KS3 complete schemes and supporting materials
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Following on from 'Tutti', this resource focuses on tuned and untuned percussion, exploring individual timbres, playing techniques and examples of how percussion is used in large scale orchestral works. Could be used as a stand-alone lesson, integrated into existing teaching materials, as a follow-up homework, or in 'do now' tasks. Also handy for GCSE revision of instrument timbres, playing techniques and articulation.

AQA GCSE AOS 3: Contemporary Latin American music
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AQA GCSE AOS 3: Contemporary Latin American music

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AQA Areas of Study

An exploration of Cuban Son, Rumba, Salsa, Cha cha cha, Habanera, Brazilian Samba and Argentine Tango. This 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.

Four-part harmony exercise 10
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Four-part harmony exercise 10

Suitable for all exam boards that have an SATB J.S.Bach chorale four part harmony question
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4-3 suspensions and II7b. Part one of a two parter on stylistic cadence writing. This set of exercises looks at the handling of dissonance at cadences using 4-3 suspensions and II7b. Prepare, sound, resolve.

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