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Music Festival-based Cover Work |
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My Music-based Cover Work |
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Music Puzzles Packs |
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Internet Research Music Cover Work |
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Getting Started - First Music Lesson Ideas |
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“DOITNOW”, “Plenary” & “5-min Reading” Bank |
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Hooks and Riffs-based Cover Work |
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Building Bricks/Elements of Music-based Cover Work |
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Pupils will require a Dictionary or access to computers/internet to correct some commonly misspelled musical words, together with giving “musical” definitions. |
Pupils decipher the missing words in a story, using treble clef staff notation with an extension task of identifying and creating their own story using treble clef staff notation to replace some of the words. |
Contemporary Music-Making Internet Research An internet research activity where pupils investigate the names of famous musical performers, groups and ensembles from a wide range of different musical styles within contemporary music-making. |
An internet research activity where pupils identify the musical instruments played by 18 famous jazz and pop musicians |
Two sets of 24 musical signs and symbols for pupils to research, name and describe. Good for GCSE Music, as a Summer Holidays research task or a revision of music notation. |
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A range of 12 ’internet research’ activities based on Popular Music including ’Singers and Backers’, ’First Lines from Popular Songs’, ’Boy Bands’, ’Rock and Pop Names’ and ’Novelty Records’ (answers provided). |
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The first in a series of “Music Puzzles”, this pack contains a word search relating to songs and singing, a musical instrument crossword/acrostic and a musical signs and symbols Sudoku (answers provided!) |
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Music Festivals in the UK Research Pupils research UK Music Festivals in terms of types/genres of music, location, age, time of year and ticket prices. Requires ICT for internet research and optional extension tasks. |
Music Festival Pupils plan their own Music Festival considering a variety of requirements including location and venue, artists and bands, catering and security and design a “site plan” of their Festival. Can be done using ICT or without. |
Music Festival Set Times & Line-Up Following on from “Planning your own Music Festivals”, pupils put together their “Set Times & Line-Up” list for the stages or performance areas in their Music Festival. Can be done using ICT or without. |
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Pupils create their own “Top Ten Playlist” for Spotify or iTunes giving names/titles and artist/bands/composers/groups, together with a reason for their choice of songs or music for a variety of situations and stimuli with an extension task of designing a CD cover which could be used to this “compilation” album. Can be done without ICT. |
Similar to “My Top Ten Playlist”, pupils identify and explain their reasoning for their choices of Top 3 favourite and worst songs of all time. Also their best music performance and funniest music performance ever seen/watched. Can be done using ICT (includes space for a YouTube link) or without. |
The Best Album in the World Ever! Pupils plan 12 tracks of their choosing to form a “Best Album in the World Ever!” CD from a choice of Dance, R ‘n’ B, Rock, Boy Bands, Girl Bands or Pop, before designing an album cover and CD-insert Can be done without ICT. |
Pupils plan a presentation to a record company to promote their rise to fame! Includes designing a band name and identity, band members fashion, debut album, promotional merchandise and tour information. Can be done without ICT. |
Pupils identify things they like and dislike about 12 famous pop band logos before designing their own effective logo for their own pop music band. Can be done without ICT. |
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Pupils identify their “Top 3 Songs” for a number of situations including their “Top 3” Love Songs, Gym/Workout Songs, Driving Songs, Chill Songs, Feel Good Songs, Sad Songs, Catchy Songs, Songs from Films and Most Annoying Songs! Can be done without using ICT. |
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Hooks and Riffs in Popular Music Pupils research, listen and analyse to pieces of popular music or songs in terms of Hooks and Riffs and the Elements of Music. Can be done with ICT or access to popular music websites or set as homework. |
Pupils find the word OSTINATO which is hidden in a word search grid 20 times. Can be done without using ICT. |
Pupils create a simple Verbal Hook choosing from a selection of lyrics with the option of teaching this to other members of the class. Can be done without using ICT. |
Hooks and Riffs Key Words Crossword Pupils solve the answers to crossword clues covering the key words given in the Musical Contexts Hooks and Riffs unit. Can be done without using ICT. |
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Elements of Music Word Search and Activity Sheet Pupils fill in the missing words of sentences describing the Elements of Music, the answers of which are given in a word search grid. Additional tasks include designing a poster on an Element of Music and describing how the Elements of Music could be used in a short storyboard. Can be done without using ICT. |
Elements of Music Word Search 2 Simple word search covering terms relating to the Elements of Music. Answers provided. Can be done without using ICT. |
Elements of Music Word Search 3 More complex word search covering terms relating to the Elements of Music. Answers provided. Can be done without using ICT. |
Reading and questions to test understanding of Graphic Scores and Staff Notation. Suggested answers provided. Can be done without using ICT. |
Pupils create an Acrostic to help them remember the Elements of Music (along the lines of “Mad T-Shirt” and “Dr. Smith” etc.) Can be done without using ICT. |