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Identifying Key Ideas

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Interactive activity to improve listening and analysis skills. Listen to three extracts of music from Khachaturian “Gayaneh” and match descriptions to each piece.
Featured excerpts; Sabre Dance, Lullaby, Choosing the Bride.
(Played by St Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra)

Official classification: Listening, Identifying Key Ideas, Orchestras, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Curriculum support, 3a Responding and reviewing - analyse and compare, 3b Responding and reviewing - communication and expression, 4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices

Tags: fanfare, drone, glissando, off-beat, dynamics

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Interactive activity to improve listening and analysis skills. Listen to four extracts of music from Britten's String Simple Symphony and match descriptions to each piece.

Featured excerpts; Boisterous Bourree, Playful Pizzicato, Sentimental Saraband, Frolicsome Finale.
(Played by Maggini Quartet)

Official classification: Listening, Identifying Key Ideas, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Curriculum support, 3a Responding and reviewing - analyse and compare, 3b Responding and reviewing - communication and expression, 4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices, Britten, Benjamin

Tags: legato, drone, unison, pizzicato, tremolo, off-beat

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Interactive activity to improve listening and analysis skills. Listen to three extracts of music played by the Philharmonic Orchestra and match descriptions to each piece.

Official classification: Listening, Identifying Key Ideas, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Curriculum support, 3a Responding and reviewing - analyse and compare, 3b Responding and reviewing - communication and expression, 4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices

Tags: musical vocabulary, staccato, pizzicato, glissando, ff

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Recognizing the timbre of individual keyboard instruments. Drag the excerpt alongside the matching keyboard instrument.

Other keywords:
listening, harpsichord, piano, pipe organ, synthesizer

Official classification: Identifying Key Ideas, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Curriculum support, 3a Responding and reviewing - analyse and compare, 4a Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - aural memory

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Recognizing the timbre of individual woodwind instruments. Drag the excerpt alongside the matching woodwind instrument.

Other keywords:
listening, saxophone, recorder, bass clarinet, bassoon

Official classification: Identifying Key Ideas, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Mixed Woodwind, 3a Responding and reviewing - analyse and compare, 4a Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - aural memory

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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

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