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Track 3 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 2. Shanty from Saydisc album 'Sea Songs and Shanties' (1'55")
Main features: rhythm, pitch (chords).
This well-known sea shanty is sung by an unaccompanied choir of Cornish fishermen. The Track Explorer has four learning tracks focusing on lyrics, chords, structure and score.
Official classification: Listening, Identifying Key Ideas, Part-singing, Verse and Chorus, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Folk, Traditional Songs, Male Voice Choir, England, Track Explorer, Curriculum support, 4a Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - aural memory, 4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices, Unit 2. Form and structure, Unit 6. Shanty time, Saydisc Records, Sea Shanties
Track 1 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 2. Music from the court of King Henry V111, from Amon Ra album 'The
Field of Cloth of Gold', (1'52) Main features: early instruments and drum ostinato. This music is a pavane, a stately dance of Tudor England and is played by early instruments. The Track Explorer has three learning tracks focusing on instrumentation, structure and drum ostinato.
Official classification: Listening, Example Instruments, Ostinato, Tudor England, Dance, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 2, England, Unit 15 Ongoing Skills, Pavan, Track Explorer, Curriculum support, 4a Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - aural memory, 4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Track 4 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 2 . Famous seventeenth century English tune from Amon Ra album 'John Playford's Popular Tunes' (1'53")
Main features: early instruments, descant, structure.
This piece of seventeenth century music features the mandore (type of lute similar to a mandolin), bass viol and flageolet (type of flute similar to a recorder). The Track Explorer has three learning tracks focusing on instrumentation, melody and arrangement.
Official classification: Listening, Example Instruments, Tudor England, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 2, Viol, Early Music, England, Unit 15 Ongoing Skills, Flageolet, Mandore, Track Explorer, 4a Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - aural memory, 4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Tracks 9 and 10 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 3. English sacred music of the late Middle Ages from Amon Ra album 'Worcester Fragments' performed by The Orlando Consort (1'32") (1'37") Main features: early church music, ostinato, drone. These two extracts are sung by unaccompanied male voices. The Track Explorer has four learning tracks focusing on the titles of the extracts, vocal texture, description of texture and the lowest part.
Official classification: Listening, Rounds , The Middle Ages, Religion, Devotion & Meditation, Interactive Activities, Early Music, Polyphony, Unison, Drone, England, Track Explorer, Curriculum support, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Track 15 from Saydisc "Percussion Around the World" - notes from Maureen Hanke.
'Jameko' is a piece of music from England. It features a tabor, a type of drum which was traditionally played with the pipe. It had a snare and could be shallow, deep or very deep in size. In this piece a shallow tabor is played by a stick held in the right hand. Its main use was for dance music although it also provided a very economical one man band.
(In a music session the whole group could be asked to tap the rhythm of the tabor quietly. Give one person a tambour. Using an untuned instrument the teacher taps a short rhythm pattern - a sort of musical question - and asks the tambour player to give an answer without stopping. The tambour is then passed on to the next person. The teacher repeats the rhythm question for the next tambour player who plays an answer and passes the tambour on. Meanwhile the whole group must continue to tap the steady rhythm.
Listen to 'Jameko' again. Throughout the piece the tabor keeps a steady beat behind a series of musical questions and answers. Try to work out the structure by listening to the questions and answers. Are some questions and answers repeated? )
Official classification: Percussion, Timbre, Ostinato, The Baroque Era, Dance, Audio, Key Stage 3, Tabor, Pipe, Early Music, England, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Track 10 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 2. A song from the lead mines from Saydisc album 'Traditional Songs of England' (1'51")
Main features: pitch, structure, lyrics.
This English folk song is sung by a female singer, accompanied by recorders and guitar. The Track Explorer has two learning tracks focusing on structure and lyrics.
Official classification: Listening, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 2, Folk, Traditional Songs, Victorian Times, Britain and Ireland, England, Track Explorer, Curriculum support, 4a Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - aural memory, 4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices, Unit 15. Song, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Track 11 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Religions of the World' (3'36") Hymn by Charles Wesley. This hymn features singers accompanied by violin, bassoon, bass, lute and tabor. The Track Explorer has two learning tracks, focusing on instrumentation and structure.
Official classification: Double Bass, Violin, Listening, Part-singing, Harmony, Tudor England, The Baroque Era, Religion, Devotion & Meditation, Interactive Activities, Female, Male, Tabor, Lute, England, Track Explorer, Christianity, Hymnns, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Track 6 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Religions of the World' (0'49") The bells of St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol. This is a peal of twelve bells. The Track Explorer has one learning track focusing on the change ringing.
Official classification: Listening, Example Instruments, Religion, Devotion & Meditation, Interactive Activities, England, Church bells, Track Explorer, Christianity, Bell ringing, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
This shows different techniques that can be used when two vocalists share a rap, including drop-outs in the mix. The lyrics include examples of internal rhyming and double time flow. The time signature is unusual for rap, involving triplet patterns. This, along with the whistle sample, give the song a folky feel.
Curriculum area: Listening and understanding
Main focus: rap vocal techniques, triplets
Possible learning outcomes: pupils recognise various ways in which two vocalists can make a vocal texture more interesting
Official classification: Song, 2000s, Interactive Activities, Rap, Rapping, England, Track Explorer, Curriculum support, Hip hop, Hip Hop Coach
Tags: grace notes, compound time, doubling
This is an example of new UK rap. It has down-to-earth subject matter and grime beat patterns that use synthesizer sounds.
Curriculum area: Listening and understanding
Main focus:UK rap style
Possible learning outcomes: pupils recognise features of UK rap style
Official classification: Song, 2000s, Interactive Activities, Rap, Rapping, England, Track Explorer, Curriculum support, Hip hop, Food, Hip Hop Coach
Track 14 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 1. Traditional English Carol from Saydisc album 'A Tapestry of Carols' (2'01") Main features: structure, rhythm, timbre, singing. This traditional English carol is sung by a female singer, accompanied by violin, clarinet, banjo bass, side drum, wood blocks and cowbell. The Track Explorer has three learning tracks focusing on structure, instrumental sections and lyrics.
Official classification: Other Percussion, Violin, Listening, Form & Structure, Christmas, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 1, Bb Clarinet, Banjo, England, Cowbell, Track Explorer, Curriculum support, Charanga, Saydisc Records
Recommended example to show that music, like pictures, can describe images and moods from QCA Unit 13 for KS2 Painting with Sound. Its first theme is an exchange of cuckoo calls, first for oboe, then for divided strings.
Official classification: Theme & Variation, Animals, 1900-1949, Classical Pieces, Audio, England, Unit 13 Painting With Sound , Curriculum support, Delius, Frederick
Suggested listening for QCA Unit 13 Painting With Sound (KS2) as example of music describing an animal.
Official classification: Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar, 1960s, Audio, Blues, Rock, England, Unit 13 Painting With Sound , Curriculum support
Eric Coates piece from 1920s, accompanies the story to Goldilocks and The Three Bears, ideal for example of descriptive use of music.
Official classification: Animals, Unit 5. Taking off - Exploring pitch, 1900-1949, Classical Pieces, Audio, England, Curriculum support, Coates, Eric
From Brian Eno's Apollo: Atmospheres 1983, suggested listening in QCA Unit 19 for KS2 Journey into Space - "Ask the children to describe how the sounds create different moods and atmospheres"
Official classification: Space, 1980s, Audio, Electronica, England, Unit 18 Journey Into Space, Curriculum support
Descriptive orchestral piece by English composer Edward Elgar.
KS 1/2 idea: Excellent example of descriptive use of dynamics, children could act out where they think the 'wagon' is along with the music.
Official classification: Changes in Volume, 1900-1949, Orchestras, Classical Pieces, Audio, Elgar, Sir Edward William, England, Curriculum support
Singer and actress Petula Clark talks about the Variety Theatre and Music Hall genre, then sings a Medley of popular songs.
QCA Schemes focussed on Songs and Songwriting at KS2&3 suggest using Music Hall as examples for lyrical content. Perhaps it is also worth focussing on some of the musical elements that typify this theatre music, such as the big band sound, use of changing tempos (particularly for emphasis) and occasional key changes. The performance element and humour of this music is important, particularly in its cultural context as popular entertainment spanning both world wars.
Official classification: 1900-1949, Theatre, Video, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, World War I, World War II, Victorian Times, England, Unit 19 Songwriter, Curriculum support, Unit 15. Song
A medley of cockney songs from the very popular Television series "Ortons Music Hall" broadcast Internationally in the late 70's.
QCA Schemes focussed on Songs and Songwriting at KS2&3 suggest using Music Hall as examples for lyrical content. Perhaps it is also worth focussing on some of the musical elements that typify this theatre music, such as the big band sound, use of changing tempos (particularly for emphasis) and occasional key changes. The performance element and humour of this music is important, particularly in its cultural context as popular entertainment spanning both world wars.
Official classification: 1900-1949, 1970s, Theatre, Video, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, World War I, World War II, Victorian Times, England, Unit 19 Songwriter, Curriculum support, Unit 15. Song
This Listen and Respond resource is one of a range of resources relating to track 28 of the Saydisk 'Listen To This, KS3' world music recordings. It is suitable for use on first listening. The Active Listening points suggest specific (differentiated) things for pupils to listen out for as the music plays through.
Three further menu items show texts with missing words that users choose from a pop-up list of alternatives. A correct choice is signalled with a green highlight, so it is possible to learn basic background musical information through intelligent self-discovery. More detailed understanding and follow-up activities are available through other resources based on the same piece - please search the title of the track to find these.
Official classification: The Baroque Era, Interactive Activities, Sopranino Recorder, Baroque Violin, Viol, Cittern, England, Curriculum support, Saydisc Records
Tags: divisions, variations, arrangement, duet, cittern, ensembles, embellishment
Traditional English Carol, the exact origins of which are unknown but believed to date back to Tudor times. This recording is from 1945.
KS2/3 - notable listening points to the music are; the minor tonality, the variations in tempo and solo male voice. Makes ideal comparison with God Rest ye Joyful Racket.
Official classification: 1900-1949, Christmas, Audio, England, Curriculum support, Christmas Carol