The skill of DJing is set to be included in the Music GCSE syllabus from 2016, with new proposals from the exam board AQA. The new inclusion is set to be an option in the solo performance part of the ...

Songs by the Beatles are to be part of a GCSE exam for the first time. Fifty years after the Fab Four started recording Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, teenagers will be able to study the album ...

Esperanza Spalding performing in Milan, Italy in 2012. • Esperanza Spalding is an award-winning American jazz singer, bassist and composer. • Spalding taught herself to play the violin from a young ...

Hundreds of thousands of pupils are today receiving their GCSE grades to help them progress to sixth form, college or training. In England, exams regulator Ofqual says this year's national results ...

We've taken some questions from a past GCSE Music exam paper - what grade do you think you'd get? Would you even pass? Time to find out… All those hours spent revising Italian musical terms, tempo ...

Music GCSE is enjoying a “post-Covid bounce-back” with a rise in entries for the subject, figures show. Use of self-study videos and tutorials during the pandemic may have helped the qualification’s ...

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