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Music theory explainer video, vocabulary teaching and concept introduction.
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Professor Duncan: Music Theory
Pupils watch Professor Duncan explain music theory topics such as note values, clefs, staves, dynamics, intervals, accidentals, time signatures and scales.
- Activity type
- Video-Led Activities
- Music skills
- Reading & Theory
- Included activities
- 38 activities
Classroom value
What this activity helps teachers do
Keep pupils active in the music
Watch, listen, jot or draw, recall key words, answer recap questions and apply concepts.
Use a clear teaching route
Pre-teach key words, chunk longer topics into short clips, and ask pupils to summarise one idea after watching.
Inside the family
Example activities teachers can open
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- Learn: What Is A Stave?
- Learn: What Are Barlines?
- Learn: Notes On The Stave
- Learn: What are Clefs?
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