THE LISTENING PROJECT
The Listening Project started in 2015 in order to provide
​Sixth Form candidates preparing for Oxbridge and university entry.
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The aim of the Listening Project is to encourage curiosity, from which could come questions - who is it, when was it written, what are the instruments, which genre, where is it from and so forth. All the pieces were in a spreadsheet - which week, which day, era, composer, piece, date of composition, link to a score, link to an audio track, and then a comments section for each student to add their own thoughts.
Students found it useful alongside their set works, to broaden their minds for composition, to prepare for the 'unseen'/'unheard' listening section, and to gently increase their knowledge very much in the style of IB and EPQ projects. More students from outside of exam classes started to use it as well: students coming into the Sixth Form, younger students listening around the GCSE set works, music scholars and those labelled as Gifted/Talented, and had something to work with over the summer that they could engaged with as much as they wished.
The original spreadsheet from 2015