Composing Practice Music Worksheets - Rhythm Composing Activities You’ll get 4 music worksheets (each with a different time signature) that you can use for short assessments, morning work or warm up exercises. Students will be able to easily practise rhythms while having fun! It’ll be a useful resource during your class that will boost your teaching efficiency! Thank you for stopping by! You can contact me with questions about this product. Thank you for all reviews, ratings and comments you leave on my profile!

A complete Unit of work on Chinese Music. Includes research on Chinese instruments, culture and festivals, Performance work and Composition work, using the pentatonic scale.

Used throughout years 7,8,9,10,11. A mixture of starter and more lengthy listening tests with top tips and some top tunes as well! includes mark schemes from the exam board and also examples of how not to do them! The tests are on unfamiliar works so is relevant across most boards. Enjoy!

An Musical Futures-style informal learning topic aimed at Year 9 classes following on from a cover song performance topic. Suitable for Year 8 students in some settings. This collaborative composition topic follows a three part process of compose-refine-perform to create a 2 section, 3 or 4 chord pop song using vocals, keyboards, guitars, bass guitars and drum kits. Worksheets for each instrument are included, plus a Keynote presentation (available as powerpoint and PDF files) to support learning. Each worksheet is double-sided. The front page is the final lead sheet for the full composition, whilst the reverse contains differentiated options for chords etc. with the possibility of a mix and match approach for personalised learning. Tic-Tac-Toe activity refers to a free worksheet available from LittleKidsRock.org Learning Objectives and topic structure: 1. Compose/Practice (lessons 1 & 4) To know the definition of a chord sequence To be able to create a chord sequence To apply a chord sequence across a group of instruments 2. Refine/Rehearse (lessons 2 & 5) To revise knowledge of chord sequences
 To refine the composition process
 To maintain own musical role in ensemble playing 3. Perform (lessons 3 & 6) To demonstrate understanding of chord sequences To demonstrate technical and creative control of musical elements To demonstrate stylistic and structural coherence overall Uses Dyslexie font to support learners with dyslexia.

A full Unit of work based on Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. Includes Listening and appraising tasks, Performance task and Composition task, each with differentiated success criteria and evaluations. Also includes embedded link to the music and homework tasks.

This is a listening quiz with four songs totaling 30 marks. There is a range of questions of varying difficulty, including one aural dictation question. This quiz is ideal for GCSE students, but could be used for KS3 if you had studied Bhangra a little. Most questions focus on generic elements of music questions.

This pack contains: 6x listening sheets (PDF) 6x Answer sheets for each sheet This listening pack is suitable for more advanced Year 9 students or students studying GCSE music (14 -16 years). Each homework sheet focuses on a different contemporary composer. Pupils are required to listen to a piece of music on YouTube or Spotify and answer questions relating to the given music. Pupils can access the YouTube clip either by scanning the QR code on the sheet or following the link given. Each listening sheet is marked out of 10. There is an optional ‘Stretch and challenge” question at the end of each sheet worth 5 extra marks. This question requires more detailed use of musical key terms. Composers included in this pack: Elena Kats-Chernin Jessica Curry John Tavener Chilly Gonzales Ryuichi Sakamoto Henri Tomasi

The aim of this resource is to enable learners to develop their listening skills, with a focus on sonic and musical components. It is part of a bundle of resources that allows learners to break-down and understand some of the most popular and iconic songs in Pop/Rock. Moreover, these listening skills lessons would work excellently alongside the “History of Modern Music” resource, this detailing the history of modern music. This lesson and supporting resources provide an extremely detailed account of the song with a full song break down and analysis. This covers some of the background and history of the band/artist along with a detailed breakdown of all musical elements from this track. Musical Elements covering: Tonality Tempo Meter/Time Signature Instrumentation Structure Dynamics/Texture Lyrical Structure and Analysis Song Theme Genre/Style The material in these resources would easily cover 1 to 2 lessons. The presentation covers the major musical elements from the song, and can be used after students have completed the Listening Skill worksheet or at the same time, working through section by section. The presentation also comes with embedded YouTube musical examples to support and engage learning and even references to other artists that are similar in style, or rhythm or tempo. This proving the learner with a wider range of listening and musical tastes. There are also 3 sequenced music arrangement examples for the song that focuses on certain elements, allowing the learner to carefully hear certain elements from the music. Moreover, the resource comes with a Listening Skills worksheet for learners to listen to the song and work through, and answer worksheet for teacher reference, and also a Help and Guidance sheet. In this package: PRESENTATION – Listening Skills-Kate Bush-Running up That Hill (.pdf High quality) PRESENTATION – Listening Skills-Kate Bush-Running up That Hill - COMPRESSED(.pdf compressed quality) PRESENTATION – Listening Skills-Kate Bush-Running up That Hill - (.pptx PowerPoint - read-only) VIDEO – Revision video of the presentation to aid learning and help with student learning. GOOGLE SLIDES™ - Resource sheet with links to Digital Learning version of material (.pdf) WORKSHEET – Class Task – Listening Skills Questions(.pdf) ANSWERS – Class Task – Listening Skills Answers (.pdf) GUIDANCE - Class Task-Help and Guidance listening Skills (.pdf)

“Cadences” - GCSE Music. This resources is suitable for a whole lesson. It is particularly useful for introducing Cadences for the first time, but also acts as a good recap resource too. Please note, All of the examples given in this resources are all performed by a piano (no examples given in the context of larger works e.g. orchestral examples) This resource includes the following files; Powerpoint Presentation - Includes visual examples, audio examples, a video example of a Tierce de Piacrdy and a listening test. A listening test activity (pupil worksheet (word doc) and audio excerpts, of which are all embedded into the powerpoint presentation). a Zip file that includes all of the audio for the Listening test (for backup purposes). a Zip files that includes all of the other audio and video examples used in the Powerpoint presentation. (for backup purposes). I hope that you find this resources useful/helpful. Ben

First unit to complete with Year 7 ... Musical Elements Rhythm and Pulse Keyboard pieces Yellow Submarine class performance Instruments of the Orchestra Peter and the Wolf Listening questions Improvising task

Information on Choro using guidance from CIE GCSE Music notes. Listening exercises using Youtube links for practice ahead of the CIE GCSE Listening Exam. Question wording using past papers as guidance. Each listening exercise is worth 8marks (in line with CIE B3 questions).

Music to encourage listening, movement and composing. This short video is designed to help children listen to music. It’s based on the principle of Peter and the Wolf. Children listen out for the sounds of the river, the storm, the dinosaur and the bird. Then there is a PPT to guide the children towards composing their own piece of music. A “worksheet” to record their drawings or music symbols is included. National Curriculum • listen with concentration and understanding to a range of live and recorded music • experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music. Resources include • 1. PPT and video of the piece of music • 3. PPT guide to composing a piece of music. • 4. A “worksheet” for children to draw their interpretations of the dinosaur, the bird, the river and the storm (Pictures or symbols) PPT and jpeg • 5.Info sheet as to contents of resources. • 6. Mp3 of the music .

Colourful musical vocabulary list on a page set out in MAD T Shirt format. GCSE Music - welsh set works (inc AoS) PDF file and editable word document. KS3 ‘Music Appreciation’ posters to start the listening journey. Based on MAD T SHIRT. JPG file - Not Editable

Information on Samba using guidance from CIE GCSE Music notes. Listening exercises using Youtube links for practice ahead of the CIE GCSE Listening Exam. Question wording using past papers as guidance. Each listening exercise is worth 8marks (in line with CIE B3 questions).

Differentiated film music motifs for the piano both 1 and 2 hands (with and without notes). Guitar tab also provided for some. Motifs are either in the horror, fantasy or romantic genre. There is also powerpoint slides which include instructions and push your thinking ideas. Sibelius files are also provided. Differentiated listening questions are also provided in the genres listed above. Analysis of some motifs is provided with musical language to stretch the most able.

Listening, Performing and Composing tasks on the Carnival of Animals by Saint -Saens. Includes homework task and evaluation tasks. Enough work for 3- 4 lessons. Suitable for KS2 and KS3

Compose a 16 Bar Melody in AABA Form. (Writing a Melody) Lesson 1 - Use the given rhythm to create a conjunct melody Lesson 2 - Create a rhythm for a given melodic line Lesson 3 - Create your own 4 bar rhythm and turn this into a melody Lesson 4 - Create your section B and create a 16 melody Lesson 5 - Add primary chords to your melody Currently based around using MuseScore but could easily be completed on manuscript paper or alternative notation programme by changing shortcuts etc.

These resource materials offer 20 full activities to prepare students for the aural skills question for Music at GCSE level. There are 20 downloadable worksheets and answer sheets, also a copy of the full audio track of the piece. All worksheets are available in SCORCH format and can be printed to be used as individual tasks. It is also possible for teachers to save the worksheets, edit and create more worksheets using the given template.

A 'Sector Skills Council' Factsheet on the Performing Arts industry, giving advice on all types of jobs in this area. Employment, careers, job roles, work-related learning, Range of opportunities, Types of work, Skills & qualities and Business structures / work roles, work placements, employability. (Apprenticeships, Further Education, Getting a Job, Higher Education, Work Experience, Volunteering é Gap Year, Self-employment/Entrepreneurship).

As part of the topic Conflict, we looked at the rhythm and melody at the beginning of Mars. The children then copied this music and created a small piece of of their own It was very simple, yet effective. Instructions as to how to given. Part two helps children to describe the mood of the music and then examine their reaction to it.. Sound bites included in the Power Point 1 There is a section which helps pupils with the design of their reviews. Part 3 looks at pitch in more depth. See web page for original source

A worksheet using formulas to create Major, Minor and Diminished chords. Suitable for KS2 & KS3 students.