Comprehensive set of teaching resources for the Edexcel GCSE Appraising exam, focusing on 'unfamiliar' works across various Areas of Study including Instrumental music of the Baroque and Classical periods, Vocal Music (Sacred and Secular Art, Pop and Rock), Music for Stage and Screen (Film, Gaming, and Musicals), and Contemporary Fusions relating to Afro Celt Sound System and Esperanza Spalding. Each pack provides listening questions, style/genre 'thumbprints,' and exam style score questions, suitable for classwork, homework, revision, and summative assessments. Materials focus on the identification of chords, keys, cadences, compositional devices, timbres, and playing techniques, as well as supporting the development of score reading, melodic and rhythmic dictation, and the description of musical features.
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 Bach, Vivaldi, Clarke, Telemann.
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, featuring works by Haydn, Mozart, Clementi, Beethoven.
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.
Materials to support students in preparing for Section A question 8 'unfamiliar' works, including thumbprints of Pop and Rock, elements driven aural training, score reading, practice questions with answers, featuring songs by Guns n Roses, Rainbow, The Who, Eric Clapton, Queen, Joan Jett, The Beatles, Elton John, Bee Gees, Billy Joel, Gary Numan, Eurythmics, De La Soul, Oasis, Harry Styles, Rick Astley, Bon Jovi, Sam Smith.
Materials to support students in preparing for Section A question 8 'unfamiliar' works, including elements driven aural training, score reading, practice questions with answers, featuring scores by Steiner, North, Herrmann, Barry, Carlos, Arnold, Williams, Shore, Newman, Desplat, Silvestri, Giacchino.
Materials to support students in preparing for Section A question 8 'unfamiliar' works, including elements driven aural training, score reading, practice questions with answers, featuring music by Kondo, Shimomura, Giacchino, Kyd, Wintory, Soule, Iwata, Fujii, Jackman, Karpman.
Materials to support students in preparing for Section A question 8 'unfamiliar' works, including elements driven aural training, score reading, practice questions with answers, featuring music by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Roders and Hammerstein, Loesser, Porter, Sherman bros, Coleman and Fields, Sondheim, Menken, Ashman and Rice, Elton John, Mitchell, Pasek and Paul.
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.
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.
