Popular Music and Jazz for Edexcel

Subject: Music
Level: Secondary
Age Group: 16 - 18
Order Number: 11057

This material has been specifically designed to help students who are studying the popular music and jazz option in unit 3 (Listening and Understanding) of Edexcel's music AS Level. The resource deals with each of the 10 set works separately, providing focussed and structured discussion and analysis with reference to the scores in Edexcel's New Anthology of Music. The photocopiable worksheets cover all key vocabulary that students need to know and provide examination style questions. It features questions that allow the students to investigate the set works independently, which can be done in class or as homework. In addition to the worksheets on the set works, there are revision summary tables, tips for the examinations, vocabulary summaries and a model essay, all of which can be photocopied and used by teachers and students.

This resource can provide you with an entire scheme of work for this unit, saving valuable teacher time on independent analysis, research and preparing your own worksheets. It has been tried and is trusted by many teachers already.

It is written in a student friendly style by a former examiner for this unit and is ideal for the student who is new to musical analysis. The best feature is that it relates directly to the examination and is an excellent and entertaining way of investigating the set works and can act as an invaluable revision guide.