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Christmas Carols Keyboard Skills
Christmas Carols Keyboard Skills Volumes 1 & 2 from Musical Contexts contains treble clef melody line arrangements of 10 well-known Christmas Carols. Each carol is presented in four differentiated ways: (see sample images) treble clef single line staff notation and chords treble clef single line staff notation with fingering and chords treble clef single line staff notation with note names and chords treble clef single line staff notation with fingering, note names and chords
Musical Contexts
Dec 7, 2025
Christmas Music Cover
With Christmas being one of the busiest times of the year in School Music Departments, the Musical Contexts Christmas Music Cover Packs 1 & 2 offer 10 different and varied activities that can be quickly and easily set as Music Cover Work over the festive season. All of the activities and tasks within the Christmas Music Cover Packs can be completed without ICT and therefore can be completed in 'non-music rooms' and come complete with answers, solutions and mark schemes. There
Musical Contexts
Dec 1, 2025
Christmas Ensemble Classics
Christmas Ensemble Classics Volumes 1-3 from Musical Contexts are a flexible classroom ensemble performing series featuring accessible and playable arrangements of five well-known Christmas songs in each volume containing a Melody, Chords and Bass Line format, ideal for both Secondary/KS3 and Primary/KS2 music classrooms. https://www.musicalcontexts.co.uk/christmas Each of the five flexible arrangements comes with 10 Performing Sheets and Scores: Melody part with lyrics and c
Musical Contexts
Nov 23, 2025
Paper-based Baseline Assessment Tests
Baseline Assessment Tests for Years 7, 8 and 9 now available in paper-based formats Music Baseline Assessments | Musical Contexts
Musical Contexts
Oct 8, 2025
New "All About the Bass" KS3 Unit
"All About the Bass" has now been updated to a new 6 x lesson fully-resourced unit within the 99 Zone. If you've not got 99 Zone access,...
Musical Contexts
Sep 19, 2025
Music and Me Y7 Questionnaire
Data collection from new Year 7 pupils made easy: Music and Me Year 7 Questionnaire . Available as both MS and Google Forms and Hard Copy...
Musical Contexts
Aug 27, 2025
New "Keyboard Skills" KS3 Music unit
"Keyboard Skills" has now been updated to a new 6 x lesson fully-resourced unit within the 99 Zone.
Musical Contexts
Aug 25, 2025
New "Rhythm and Pulse" KS3 unit
"Rhythm and Pulse" has now been updated to a new 6 x lesson fully-resourced unit within the 99 Zone. If you've not got 99 Zone Access, grab it here...
Musical Contexts
Aug 25, 2025
Newly-updated Secondary KS3 Music unit - Form and Structure
All of the Secondary KS3 Music units are undergoing a huge revision and update! Along with the new "Back in Time to the Popular Music...
Musical Contexts
Aug 16, 2025
Free Resource - Old NC Music Level Descriptors
Not sure if these will be helpful to anyone, or bring back the old terrors of "NC Level Descriptors", but found these in the depths of...
Musical Contexts
Aug 12, 2025
Newly updated Primary KS2 Music Unit
Purpose : This unit explores musical styles in Britain during the 1930’s and 1940’s and focuses on popular music during the Second World...
Musical Contexts
Aug 8, 2025
Back in Time to the Popular Music Part 1 - Knowledge Organiser
For those using the new Musical Contexts Back in Time to the Popular Music Part 1 KS3 unit, there's now a supporting Knowledge Organiser...
Musical Contexts
Aug 5, 2025
Back in Time to the Popular Music Part 1 - 5 Minutes Reading
6 x 5 Minute Reading Activities For those enjoying the new Musical Contexts Back in Time to the Popular Music Part 1 KS3 unit, there's...
Musical Contexts
Aug 2, 2025
IGCSE AoS1 Listening Questions
This pack of 10 GCSE-style Listening Questions can be used to support IGCSE Music Area of Study 1 - Baroque Music focusing on Baroque...
Musical Contexts
Mar 11, 2025
Concerto OCR GCSE Listening Questions
This pack of 10 GCSE-style Listening Questions can be used to support OCR GCSE Music (9-1) Area of Study 2 - The Concerto through Time. ...
Musical Contexts
Mar 7, 2025
Inside Romantic Music
Completing the Musical Contexts trilogy exploring Baroque, Classical and Romantic Music. Inside Romantic Music Resource Pack is now...
Musical Contexts
Feb 24, 2025
Ancient Greece Updated
The KS2/Primary 99 Zone unit, "Ancient Greece", has been newly updated exploring Triple Time, Leitmotif and the Pentatonic Scale. 99 Zone...
Musical Contexts
Feb 13, 2025
99 Zone Updates
The 99 Zone has had a makeover! Log-in or grab 99 Zone access now to find a much easier to navigate page packed full on resources to help...
Musical Contexts
Feb 12, 2025
Cadenza Part 3 Forms Quizzes
Two new sets of Music Theory Forms Quizzes (MS and Google Forms) to support Cadenza Part 3 covering: Scales, Texture, Chords, Chords into...
Musical Contexts
Feb 8, 2025
Cadenza Part 3
The third and final part of Cadenza Part 3 - The Musical Contexts Guide to Music Theory is now live and online! Five fully-resourced ...
Musical Contexts
Feb 8, 2025
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