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Recommended Listening Sites
The following is a list of various listening resources that you may find useful in your Music DP Practice. These are a collection of sites music teachers have used based on discussions from workshops...
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Digital Audio Workstations (DAW) / MTech
The following is a list of various Digital Audio Workstations (DAW) that you may find useful in your Music DP Practice. These are a collection of sites music teachers have used based on discussions from...
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Glossary of Subject-Specific Terms
This page offers you a simple series of TERMS and their ACCOMPANYING DEFINITIONS associated with the DP Music programme that has largely been extracted from the closing pages of the Music Teacher Support...
Assessment in Practice
Subject Reports - Nov 2025
After each assessment period, the IB produce reports for many of the subjects, including music. The reports are essential documents in which educators can gain insight into common problems and areas that...
Activities
As a Creator - Understanding Terminology
This page was created to better help you unpack some of the key terminology contained in the level descriptors. Although these pieces serve primarily to help you understand the Experimenting as a Creator component,...
Assessment
Exploring Sample 1 - Nov. 2025 (Grade 7) Free
The first student exploring sample from the November 2025 marking session includes the use of three AoIs. This sample first explores film music through AoI 3 using Monsters Inc. by Randy Newman. Then,...
Activities
Lesson 1, Varèse
The page provides preliminary information about two main schools of thought on electronic music in Europe in the 1950s - one predominantly French and the other German. The series of lessons shifts to...
Activities
Lesson 1 - Exploring with Suno
After reading an article on the use of the AI software programme SUNO, which painted a bleak picture for the future, I wanted to create some practical applications for how you, as students, can use this...
Teaching Strategies and Lesson Ideas
Social Trauma and Discrimination
Life on Southern plantations was traumatic. The enslaved were not regarded as people, but property. Many of them were abused by their owners. They worked long hours in sugar, cotton, and tobacco fields,...
Essentials for Teachers
Think-Ins - Further Professional Development Free
A "Think-In" is a dedicated forum for thoughtful discussion and collaborative inquiry. We offer a series of these music-specific seminars on a regular basis to provide ongoing professional development...