**Elements of Music Vocab Builder Worksheet/Aid (Junior Cycle/Leaving Cert music/GCSE)
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This resource is a practical tool designed to help students build a comprehensive music vocabulary over time. It features a Music Elements Wheel, which can be glued into students’ music notebooks for ongoing reference. As students learn new musical terms, they can fill in each section of the wheel with relevant vocabulary corresponding to different elements of music, such as adding “allegro” and “largo” under Tempo.
Perfect for continuous use throughout the school year, this resource serves as a personal word bank that students can refer to during aural tasks and when describing music. It’s a highly effective way to support vocabulary development, ensuring that students have a structured and accessible way to recall key musical terms as their learning progresses.
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**My Music Playlist Worksheet
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This resource is a fun way for students to share their favourite songs.
This resource lets students make a playlist of 4 songs.
Once they finish their playlist, there is a space for them to draw the cover art of their favourite song.
This is a great way for students to ease into their music classes, with a chance to have fun and show the teachers what music they like!
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This resource involves a back to school bingo activity. This is a great game to add to your lessons for breaking the ice after the summer break.
There is one calling card and 30 playing cards to be printed.
The words used are random words related to music.
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This is a two page resource.
Page 1: A word search for students to recap key words
Page 2: A section for students to write the definition out for each of the words.
PDF Format
- Words in word search:
- CHORALE
- ARIA
- RECITATIVE
- CADENCE
- MODULATION
- OSTINATO
- MELISMA
- CANON
- COUNTERPOINT
- SEQUENCE
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Music Wordsearch - Tempo and Dynamics
This wordsearch is great for students to recap key words in music.
The students must use one colour pen for finding the dynamic related words, and a different colour for finding the tempo words. This will test students knowledge, while also building their music vocabulary.
Bonus tip: Ask students to write out the definitions next to each key word.
The words involved in this resource:
Lento
Grave
Vivace
Andante
Presto
Piano
Largo
Adagio
Forte
Moderato
Pianissimo
Fortissimo
Allegro
This resource contains 6 music posters to help support the teaching of dynamics.
The posters are A4 size in pdf format. The posters include
Explanation of Dynamics
Piano
Forte
Chart to show pp --> ff
Crescendo
Decrescendo
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A4 Music posters of tempo and articulation definitions to hang in your classroom.
9 posters included in this resource of :
Articulation
Staccato & Legato
Tempo
Largo
Adagio
Moderato
Andante
Allegro
Presto
This resource is in PDF format
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This is a blank music stave with two pages, one is your standard single line stave and the second page is for bass and treble cleff.
This is a suitable resource for taster music classes or if a student forgets their manuscript copy.
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This resource is a list of major and minor intervals, with songs that can help students identify them.
Benefits of learning how to identify intervals:
-Students have a better understanding of how note distances sound while writing -melodies in exams/without an instrument
-Training their musical ear
-Helps them with relative pitch
-Better understand the relationships between two notes
-Helps with sight singing
This resource includes one A4 sheet. This is great for students to stick into an A4 copy or folder, or simply to hang on the wall. This resource comes with a black and white version, as well as a colour version.
**Music Note Values A4 Poster/Flashcard (Junior Cycle/Leaving Cert/GCSE Music)
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There are posters of the following explaining:
Semibreve Note
Semibreve Rest
Minim Note
Minim Rest
Crotchet Note
Crotchet Rest
Quaver Note
Quaver Rest
Semiquaver Note
Semiquaver Rest
Bonus Resource
There are also seven A4 clapping exercise posters included (14 pages altogether as they include):
Clapping without aid (7 pages)
Clapping with count aid (7 pages)
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**Film Music - Looking at music and mood in movie trailers
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Trailer Film Music Activity
This activity works on looking at how music can change the mood of a trailer. Students love to watch scenes from their favourite films, so this is a great activity for working with film music.
This resource includes:
Teacher guide to using this activity
3 sections to work on 3 different trailers
Each sheet includes questions to keep students on task and to analyse the music
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This resource includes an easy to understand explanation of:
– Explaining what a cadence is
– Explaining the difference between finished and unfinished cadences
– Finished: Perfect and Plagal cadences
– Unfinished: Imperfect and Interrupted cadences
This is a great resource for students to stick into their copy books or folders. It is an A4 size and is in PDF format.
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**Renaissance Music Lesson
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Bring your students back in time to the Renaissance! This presentation is in PDF format and includes two lessons. This outlines a brief history about the renaissance and goes through the type of music during this time. Youtube links to resources found about each instrument and music included in this lesson also.
Lesson 1 includes:
Brief history
Instruments
Features
Singing exercise (polyphonic feature of renaissance )
Lesson 2
Recap previous lesson
Listening activity
Musical Bingo (the bingo cards are not included. for this you need to pick key words you find suitable for your class and to create the game from there. This can be done by writing 8-10 words on the board and asking students to write any 6 into their copy. You can then pull each word out of a hat and which ever student has all keywords first wins.)
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Music Technology Processing FX Definitions Sheet - Ideal for Junior Cycle & Leaving Cert Music
This comprehensive resource is designed to support students in understanding key music production concepts. Aimed primarily at the Junior Cycle Music curriculum, it also serves as a helpful tool for those studying Queen’s (Set A) or The Beatles (Set B) for the Leaving Cert.
The sheet clearly explains essential music technology terms, including:
Compression
Panning
Reverb.
Echo & Delay
Distortion
Perfect as a student handout or revision aid, this sheet simplifies complex concepts, helping learners grasp how these tools shape modern music production. It’s an invaluable resource for any music class or individual study.
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This is a three page work book for building students aural skills.
The first page involves:
listening grid exercise: Focusing on tempo, dynamics, instruments and texture
The second page includes:
Listening tips on how to build music listening skills
The third page:
An instrument aural ear training exercise
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**Music Listening Grid - Worksheet
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To help students with their aural skills, I have made a worksheet for students to focus on four elements. Texture, dynamics, tempo, and instruments.
I use this grid system for students to help them focus and listen to music outside of a question or exam paper.
This is suitable for any music class: Junior Cycle, Leaving Cert and general music appreciation
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This involves an info-graphic and three worksheets: an exercise, a place to write definitions, and a quiz.
This is great for students to learn the elements of music and to become familiar with these key words.
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**The Elements of Music - FREE Infographic
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This is a free printout for the elements of music. Great for students to stick to the inside/back cover of their copies for easy access
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MUSIC JINGLES WORKSHEET
This sheet is aimed at Junior Cycle music under the learning outcome:
“Create a musical statement (such as a rap or an advertising jingle) about a topical issue or current event and share with others the statements’ purpose and development”
However, can be useful for any music class to boost creativity.
Included in this resource:
Jingle Planner (brand, slogans, product)
A section for songwriting and chords
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This is a worksheet aimed at looking at how music plays a role in film/tv. Music has the power to change how a viewer perceives a movie, therefore students can have some fun with the short film ‘Piper’ (which can be found on Disney+).
Youtube also has great music to use alongside changing the mood of music, or students can pick a song to change the mood. Simply mute the ‘Piper’ video and play a different song in the background.
This worksheet includes questions about:
The role music has on mood in films
How changing the music in a film can change the story
Section to create a graphic score