Graded Chamber Music Repertoire for the QLD curriculum

Find the perfect fit for your duet, trio or quartet.

After receiving hundreds of positive reviews and feedback from our teaching community in response to our curriculum-aligned string orchestra titles, the next call was for curriculum guidance for chamber music.

The Simply for Strings Education team have assessed boxes of chamber music books’ and have aligned them with the Education Queensland Instrumental Music Curriculum levels.

This document outlines the concepts covered in the pieces and can be used by any string teacher in Australia.

Please contact us if you have any issues accessing this document.

With the Education Queensland Instrumental Music curriculum launched in 2017, Queensland has seen a sweep in a positive direction to align teaching and learning standards across the state. To help with this change, the Education team has seen the need to support teachers in the changeover process from a resource, information and access perspective.

This chamber music document aligns with the ten levels based on the learning outcomes of each book series, with notes which include learning concepts per book. Each piece listed has a purchase website link and a watch or listen link, both for easy access.

Why?

Providing support to teachers is our number one priority.

These documents have been created to support strings teachers in all schools - we are aware teachers simply do not have the time to be sifting through hundreds of string orchestra scores on an individual basis, so we have happily helped to lighten your load!

In using these curriculum level guides as a support resource, they are designed to:

Make you feel empowered and nurtured - teaching on your own in a school can be lonely at times, and it is always nice to know that someone is 'in your corner'.
Help you through our understanding - we understand there is enough of a workload on teachers (particularly with the recent QTU work to rule) without the need to dissect string orchestra scores on your own for hours on end.
Help you have quick and reliable access to which string orchestra works you require and find exactly what you need for each curriculum level.
Help our rural and regional teachers through easy access from home or school from your laptop.
Be used for programmes where teaching occurs across violin, viola, cello and double bass in the one class.
Help teachers with small programmes to produce quality music performance and student learning with a small amount of time.
Be used as part of the literacy, technique and performance components of assessment from ensemble repertoire.
Help any strings teacher (not only the DET in Queensland) across the country who may wish to refer to these documents and build their programmes using the concepts and KLAs of the EQ IM curriculum.

Going forward:

We would love to hear your feedback on these documents and how they help you, so we can continue to provide resources for teachers across Queensland and Australia.

We hope this is a usable and workable document for you, and easy enough with a click of a button to relate your string orchestra files to the relevant curriculum levels.

If you require any additional assistance or have any thoughts, new directions, or ideas for us to further support teachers, please let us know!

This document will be updated as new repertoire is published.