Form & Structure
Video podcast demonstrating how to teach a C Major 12 Bar Blues progression on the piano. Students must have an understanding of 7th chords and inversions.
Official classification: Piano, Improvising, Chords, 12 Bar Blues, Video, Chord progressions, Unit 8. Jazz improvisations
Nina Perlove flute and Toni Sheffer, piano, live in concert at Northern Kentucky University. Fantasy on themes of Bizet's Carmen by Francois Borne arranged by Robert Stallman.
Official classification: Piano, Flute, Theme & Variation, Video, Bizet, Georges, Performance video clip
An easy 12-bar blues using only the notes D and E. Ask students to invent an
alternative last line of lyrics (it must rhyme with blues/news) for further repetitions,
eg She sank six canoes or She’s been on a cruise etc.
Notes used: D, E
Key: concert G minor
Learning points: new note: D
minim/minim rest
Official classification: 12 Bar Blues, Pieces, Bb Clarinet, Wider opps, Resource Packs
An easy 12-bar blues using only the notes D and E. Ask students to invent an
alternative last line of lyrics (it must rhyme with blues/news) for further repetitions,
eg She sank six canoes or She’s been on a cruise etc.
Notes used: D, E
Key: concert G minor
Learning points: new note: D
minim/minim rest
Official classification: Eb Clarinet, 12 Bar Blues, Pieces, Wider opps, Resource Packs
An easy 12-bar blues using only the notes E and D. Ask students to invent an
alternative last line of lyrics (it must rhyme with blues/news) for further repeti-
tions, eg He sank six canoes or He’s been on a cruise etc.
Notes used: D, E
Key: concert G minor
Learning points: new note D, semibreve, reinforces dynamics f, p
Official classification: Trombone (treble clef), 12 Bar Blues, Pieces, Wider opps, Resource Packs
This piece is in three sections: ABA. The A section is almost identical at the start
and at the end. Keep the high split notes short and harsh, as if slapping at the
mossie! Take the opportunity to practise staccato tonguing.
Notes used: C, E, G
Key: concert D minor
Learning points: new note E,crotchet rest, dynamics (f, p), high split notes
Official classification: Trombone (treble clef), Staccato, Ternary(ABA), Animals, Pieces, Forte Loud, Piano Soft, Wider opps, Resource Packs
An easy 12-bar blues using only the notes E and D. Ask students to invent an
alternative last line of lyrics (it must rhyme with blues/news) for further repetitions,
eg He sank six canoes or He’s been on a cruise etc.
Notes used: D, E
Key: concert G minor
Learning points: new note D
semibreve
reinforces dynamics f, p
Official classification: Trumpet, 12 Bar Blues, Pieces, Wider opps, Resource Packs
This piece is in three sections: ABA. The A section is almost identical at the start
and at the end. Keep the high split notes short and harsh, as if slapping at the
mossie! Take the opportunity to practise staccato tonguing.
Notes used: C, E, G
Key: concert D minor
Learning points: new note E
crotchet rest
dynamics: f, p
high split notes
Official classification: Trumpet, Staccato, Ternary(ABA), Animals, Pieces, Forte Loud, Piano Soft, Wider opps, Resource Packs
Here’s an impressive performance duet. The ‘three threes’ in the title refer to the
3-bar phrases in 3/4 (think of it in 12/8). The three sections (ABA) are played
arco/pizz/arco. Section A – both times it comes – is in clear 3-bar phrases. Section B
has three 3-bar phrases, then an 8-bar phrase to lead in to the recap.
Notes used: G, D, A, E
Key: G major
Learning points: duet in 3/4
rall, a tempo
Official classification: Violin, Tempo, Ternary(ABA), Pieces, 3/4, Wider opps, Resource Packs
Taken from "Jambo and Other Call and Response Songs and Chants". Folkways Records / Smithsonian Folkways
For use in Key Stage 3 go to: www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/schemes2/secondary_music/mus02/02q1?view=get
Official classification: Call and response, Audio, Unit 19 Songwriter, Curriculum support, Unit 2. Form and structure
Classic 12 bar blues by American, Big Joe, known for his characteristic style of guitar-playing, his nine-string guitar, and his bizarre, cantankerous personality.
Official classification: 12 Bar Blues, Song, 1960s, Audio, Blues, United States, Curriculum support
Short excerpt (3m22s) of Griot performance from Mali. This is part of a 50min show and features three performers with rhythmic backing, dancing and chanting in a call & response. A Griot is an African poet or storyteller and this genre of performance is thought to have influenced much of today's rap and hip hop music.
Official classification: Call and response, Poetry, Stories, Theatre, Video, Mali, Curriculum support
Tags: African, Call and response
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
From Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg's incidental music to accompany Henrik Ibsen's play.
Suggested in QCA Unit 13 for KS2 'Painting with Sound' as example of music that describes a scene.
Official classification: Bowed Strings, Flute, Oboe, Theme & Variation, The Romantic Period, Classical Pieces, Audio, Grieg, Edvard Hagerup, Unit 13 Painting With Sound , Curriculum support
The 'now and next' functions in the Live Sequencer tool allow students to create their own arrangement of the koto melody from Saydisc Listen To This KS3, track 4 Aki No Shirabe (Autumn Tune). Students also type in their own descriptions of each phrase so they can easily identify each one and demonstrate use of musical language. They can then trigger the phrases live to play in any chosen order. Perhaps this could be used to provide music for a dance or similar performance.
Official classification: Composing, Arranging, Improvising, Changes in Volume, Silence, Phrasing, Melody, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Pentatonic Scales, Japan, Koto, Curriculum support, Live Sequencer, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
This Listen and Respond resource is one of a range of resources relating to track 20 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: Soprano/descant, Variations (Divisions), Ground Bass, The Renaissance, Interactive Activities, Italy, United Kingdom, Lute, Curriculum support, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Tags: ground bass, repeating chord sequence, I IV V I, variation, decoration, ornaments, dance, lute
Piece for piano and orchestra, written by pianist Gershwin originally in 1924 and combining elements of both classical and jazz styles.
KS2/3 idea: pupils should be able to identify the jazz-style method of bending notes in the clarinet and trumpet lines at the beginning, followed by the rhythmically varied piano part with its improvisatory style, contrasted by the straight classical brass and string parts that play the marching theme that reoccurs with variation throughout the piece, along with sharp contrasts in instrumental texture.
Official classification: Theme & Variation, 1900-1949, Classical Pieces, Jazz, Audio, Classical, Jazz, United States, Curriculum support
Ella Jenkins talks about her childhood background and introduction to the blues from her father. She then performs The Freight Train Blues that he used to play.
Official classification: Harmonica, 12 Bar Blues, Video, Blues, United States, Curriculum support
12-bar-blues-based number 1 hit released in 1954. Classic rock and roll, great for hand-jiving.
Official classification: 12 Bar Blues, 1950s, Dance, Video, Blues, United States, Curriculum support, Rock n Roll
Sing-a-long version of the 12-bar-blues-based song released in 1954. Classic rock and roll, great for hand-jiving.
Official classification: 12 Bar Blues, 1950s, Video, Blues, Curriculum support, Rock n Roll