A Level AQA Practice Exercises for Listening: Art Music Since 1910 (A Level only)

Ready-to-use exercises on a wide range of extracts, tailored to the A Level AQA specification.

A difficult and complex historical period has been made approachable with questions to train students efficiently...

...which is going to be so helpful to the students

M Thiselton, Music Teacher & Peer Reviewer

For each pack:

  • Twenty sets of short-answer questions to prepare for the short listening tasks at the start of Section A
  • Five 10-mark questions to practise the skills needed to write a critical commentary on an unfamiliar extract in the exam
  • Answers for every exercise – great for peer-/self-assessment and easy marking

Use in class or set as homework for perfect exam preparation!

The suggested answers are wide-reaching

C White, Head of Music & Peer Reviewer
Area of Study 7: Art Music Since 1910 (A Level only)

Includes exercises on 42 different tracks from Shostakovich, Messiaen, Reich and MacMillan to ensure that students are well versed in modern art music!

What do teachers say about this resource? (8403)

A great deal of effort, expertise, and planning has gone into this resource. To tackle the music of the 20th and 21st century in analysis, and then provide a resource which is going to be so helpful to the students is impressive... The layout of the questions is just like the sample AQA papers and the initial past papers. I will find this very useful for my students... The variety of styles used in Art Music for this syllabus is covered well. There is a mixture of reasonable and difficult questions to answer and the combination of low mark questions and the ten mark analysis questions is very useful... The writer has been willing to create questions with choices of rhythms, modes, and melodic fragments notated clearly to try and match what is heard... The answer pages are also clearly laid out too with helpful suggestions for the longer questions... A difficult and complex historical period has been made approachable with questions to train students efficiently... This a valuable resource to help students and teachers.

M Thiselton, Music Teacher & Peer Reviewer

An excellent set of 20 practice exercises that easily cover the syllabus and provide learners with an excellent opportunity to revise and improve revision technique for their examination... The suggested answers are wide-reaching and it was particularly pleasing to see comments such as “some learners may pick out this…”. This could then be used as a challenge to learners.

C White, Head of Music & Peer Reviewer