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Summer Music Quiz 2026
Welcome to the 2026 edition of the Musical Contexts Great Big End of Year Summer Music Quiz. This Music Quiz is designed to provide a quick, easy, fun and flexible music resource during the final part of the summer term. The Musical Contexts Great Big End of Year Summer Music Quiz 2026 has 100 brand new questions (divided into 10 rounds of 10 questions/points value each – see Contents page). These range from favourite rounds such as Recent Music General Knowledge, Pop Song
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5 days ago


FIFA World Cup 2026
With the FIFA World Cup starting in 2026, grab yourself "Football Classics Keyboard Skills" - another possibility to keep those awkward Year 9's occupied for the end of the Summer Term... Football Classics Keyboard Skills from Musical Contexts contains treble clef melody line arrangements of 7 well-known songs and pieces of music connected with football. Each song or piece of music is presented in four differentiated ways: (see sample image) treble clef single line staff no
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5 days ago


"Thriller" Ensemble Performing
With the popularity of Michael in 2026, Musical Contexts offers a flexible performing arrangement of Thriller - perfect for those Year 9 groups at the end of the Summer Term! The Ensemble Performing Arrangements from Musical Contexts give instant 'play and go' three-part arrangements of musical classics designed for flexible ensemble performing in the music classroom. Each arrangement comes with a Lead Sheet giving treble clef melody line with chords and lyrics, a Full Score
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5 days ago


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


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
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