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Welcome To The Music Department

The Department Aims To:

Offer a rewarding musical experience to all students at KS3
Encourage wider involvement in music across the school, through extra curricular activities and through study at A-level and GCSE
Encourage students to learn an instrument
Provide opportunities for students to experience live music
Develop the use of ICT within the department
To evolve links between subject areas though events such as the Annual School Production and the Arts Evening
Create a safe and supportive environment in which students’ creativity can flourish

Staffing:

Mr S Mitchell Head of Music

Mrs M Hopkinson Music Teacher

Mr J Floyd Arts Technician

Mr B Winter Upper Brass and Woodwind

Mr D Vaughan Brass

Miss H Wallace Woodwind

Miss M Dobbs Strings

Mr A Feeney Drums

Mr C Baker Guitar

Miss Effie Cunnane Voice

Useful Links:

www.musictheory.net (A great site for learning the basics of music theory, with Flash tutorials and online tests)

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ (Download Audacity - a really simple tool for recording sound but with some quite advanced features if you want them - totally free!)

http://www.spotify.com (Free streaming of almost any piece of music you can think of, including some quite obscure stuff. Useful for GCSE and A level musicians if you want to do some wider listening. Great if you need a backing track for a song as it is also full of Karaoke accompaniments. CD quality and totally legal!)

www.essentialsofmusic.com/ (A great site if you want to revise musical periods for GCSE music as there is not an excessive amount of info and there are musical clips to listen to.)

www.redhotjazz.com/ (Amazing site, full of information about jazz surprisingly enough. Also includes Real Audio clips of hundreds of pieces. Essential for AS music.)

www.soundjunction.org/ (A comprehensive site produce by the ABRSM - the main examining body for music graded exams. You can take music apart and find how it works, create music yourself, find out how other people make music and how they perform it, learn about musical instruments and look at the backgrounds of different musical styles.)

A2 Music
Extra Curricular Activities
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