GCSE Music (Eduqas)

32 free revision lessons in 8 units. Open the course or go straight to a lesson.

Listening Skills

Train your ear: tonality, metre, texture, devices and cadences

1. Hearing Tonality: Major, Minor and Beyond
2. Hearing Instruments and Families
3. Texture, Devices and Cadences: First Steps

Area of Study 1: Musical Forms and Devices

Binary, ternary, rondo and variations — and the devices that build them

1. Musical Forms and Devices: Hearing Structure — Binary, Ternary, Rondo, Variations, Strophic and Minuet and Trio
2. Musical Devices and Cadences: The Composer's Toolkit
3. Bach: Badinerie from Orchestral Suite No. 2 — Guided Listening
4. Bach: Badinerie from Orchestral Suite No. 2 — The Elements in Close-Up

Area of Study 1: Listening Practice

Real recordings, exam-style questions on forms and devices

1. Beethoven Symphony No.1, Movement 1: Slow Introduction and Sonata-Form Allegro
2. Mozart Symphony No. 40 — Opening Listening Drill
3. Mozart Clarinet Concerto K.622, Movement 3: Rondo Form
4. Haydn Symphony No.94 'Surprise', Movement 2: Theme and Variations
5. Handel: Zadok the Priest — Coronation Anthem
6. Chopin: Nocturne in E♭ major, Op.9 No.2
7. Schumann: Kinderszenen Op.15 — Selected Pieces
8. Verdi: Requiem — 'Dies Irae'

Area of Study 2: Music for Ensemble

Texture and sonority: jazz, musical theatre and chamber music

1. Texture and Sonority in Chamber Music
2. Jazz and Blues Ensembles: Roles, Riffs and Improvisation
3. Music for Ensemble 3: Musical Theatre and Chamber Groups

Area of Study 3: Film Music

How composers score mood, character, time and place

1. Film Music: The Composer's Toolkit
2. Film Music: Creating Mood, Time and Place
3. Film Music: Writing About an Unfamiliar Cue and Composing to a Brief

Area of Study 4: Popular Music

Pop forms and hooks, bhangra and fusion — and the study track

1. Popular Music: Forms, Hooks and Textures
2. Bhangra and Fusion: Dhol, Chaal and Cross-Cultural Production
3. Toto: Africa — Guided Listening
4. Toto: Africa — The Elements in Close-Up

Areas of Study 2–4: Listening Practice

Unfamiliar extracts across ensemble, film and popular music

1. Popular Music — Unfamiliar Listening
2. Music for Ensemble — Unfamiliar Listening
3. Orchestral Colour — Unfamiliar Listening

Score Reading

Follow the music on the page while it plays

1. Following a Score: Keeping Your Place While the Music Plays
2. Reading Rhythm: How Long Each Note Lasts
3. Reading Pitch: Steps, Leaps, Shape and Key
4. Reading Expression and Forces: Dynamics, Articulation and Clefs

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