WJEC/Eduqas GCSE Music Revision Guide Sample

Written by experienced author Jan Richards, this practical and concise revision guide is a perfect resource to use alongside the WJEC/Eduqas GCSE Music student textbook. This guide outlines the essential information and musical knowledge required for GCSE Music with advice on how to approach different types of questions in the Appraising examination, helping prepare you for assessment. ⦁ ⦁ Provides opportunities for you to practise identifying the elements of music when listening, and how they are used in composing. ⦁ ⦁ Helps develop your listening and appraising skills through a range of practical activities. (Musical extracts referenced in the text can be accessed for FREE via the accompanying digital book.) ⦁ ⦁ Includes plenty of opportunities for you to practise applying your musical knowledge and use your appraising skills to make evaluative and critical judgements about music. ⦁ ⦁ Highlights all the required key musical terms with definitions and includes practice questions to assist you in developing your musical theory skills. ⦁ ⦁ A dedicated chapter on exam-style questions , with sample answers and commentaries, helps you understand what high mark answers look like, and prepares you for the written exam. About the author: Jan Richards has enjoyed a long teaching career throughout Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, including experience in three secondary schools and a sixth form college, and for 35 years worked as a Head of Department/Head of Performing Arts. An experienced author of teacher resources from Key Stage 3 to A level, including the material on set works, prepared extracts and teacher/ student support, she has also been involved in examining, specification development and setting of exemplar materials with a major Awarding Body. She is currently the Principal Moderator for Composing in GCSE Music and Principal Examiner for Composing in GCE AS and A Level Music (WJEC/ Eduqas). WJEC/Eduqas GCSE Music www.illuminatepublishing.com Also in this series: WJEC/Eduqas GCSE Music by Jan Richards Student book (978-1-908682-92-5) Revision Guide