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Teaching Activities for Dvorak Symphony From the New World (Cambridge A Level Music Set Work 2025/6)
This resource is designed to be used in conjunction with the Music Teacher’s Guide to support students’ analysis of the set work. Contains background information, activities and example Section B essay questions.

Teaching Activities for Vivaldi Concerto in G Minor (Cambridge A Level Music Set Work 2025/6)
A brief introduction to Vivaldi followed by some teaching resources created to support students in their own analysis of the set work. Not intended as a complete analysis (for this there is the Music Guide printed by Cambridge) but as ideas for activities that your students can undertake to deepen their knowledge of the set work. Reference is made to the Cambridge Key Concepts are a template for musical analysis.

Teaching Activities for Bach Orchestral Overture No. 1 (Cambridge A Level Music Set Work 2025/6)
This set of slides begins with a background to Bach, his life and his compositions. Following this there are a number of activities for students to complete on each of the movements within the set work. They are not designed to replace the analysis in the Cambridge Teacher’s Guide but to challenge the students to explore the set work themselves, learning key vocabulary. There are opportunities to compare different performances and links to relevant wider listening and research sources.

Baroque Performance Practice
Produced for students following the Cambridge International A Level Music course to support their preparation towards Section A of Listening Paper 1, this presentation explores Historically Informed Performance including:
What is HIP
The sources available to inform HIP
Baroque pitch
Period instruments
Continuo parts
Ornamentation
It also gives useful links to more information and resources and has a comparison exercise for two different performances of the same piece.

Music History in a Nutshell - Revision Resource
Particularly tailored for GCSE students to help them identify music from the Baroque, Classical and Romantic eras, with information on musical styles, common genres and leading composers. Has helpful suggestions to help students justify why a piece is from that particular genre.