4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices
An odd metre is a metre which contains both simple and compound beats.
Official classification: Understanding Notation, Metre, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 4, Curriculum support, 4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices, 4c Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - processes and symbols, Musictheory.net
Simple and compound time signatures.
Official classification: Understanding Notation, Metre, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 4, Curriculum support, 4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices, 4c Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - processes and symbols, Musictheory.net
This activity is for two competing teams, each with a volunteer standing on one side of the IWB. A musical word appears near the top of the screen. It belongs to one of the categories in the list below it. A point is awarded to the first team to identify the correct category. But if the first guess is wrong, the turn passes to the opposing team. If they also guess wrongly, or run out of time, the turn passes back to the first team again, and so on. Which team can score the most points?
Questions are chosen in random order from a question bank. So you can take a 'first team to reach 5' approach and the questions will be different each time you play.
Other keywords:
quiz, musical elements, pitch, tempo, dynamics, duration, timbre, texture, structure
Don't Panic 1
Official classification: Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Curriculum support, 3b Responding and reviewing - communication and expression, 4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices
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
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
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
Interactive activity to improve listening and analysis skills. Listen to four extracts of music from around the world and match descriptions to each piece.
Featured excerpts; Ndakuvara by The Tuku Years, Bitile by Ma Ya, Ambush on all Sides by Pipa Favourites and Ludiane Nachdi Nu by Bhangra Beatz
Official classification: Listening, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, World Music, 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: solo, riff, dhol, sheng, Banghra, congos, pipa, tremolo, backing vocals, India, China, Africa, Zimbabwe, Mali
Interactive activity to improve listening and analysis skills. Listen to four different extracts of music and match descriptions to each piece.
Featured excerpts; The Bonesetter's Dance by Klezmer Cafe Jew Zoo, Sensemaya by Revueltas, Symphony no. 6 2nd movement by Tchaikovsky and Blues Guaguanco by Cuban Jazz.
Official classification: Listening, 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: Classical, klezmer, Jazz, European, Jewish, South American, beat pattern, metre, solo, unison, ostinato, pizzicato
Recognizing different dynamics levels and the words and signs used to describe them. Drag the excerpt alongside the description of its dynamics.
Other keywords:
listening, crescendo, diminuendo, ff, mf, p, pp
Official classification: Dynamics, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Curriculum support, 4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices
Recognizing rising and falling pitch contours and the ways they can be represented. Drag the excerpt alongside the correct pitch shape.
Other keywords:
listening, pitch contour, treble stave, bass stave
Official classification: High, low and changing, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Curriculum support, 4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices
Recognizing the rhythmic feel of music in a particular style. Drag the excerpt alongside the name of its style.
Other keywords:
listening, waltz, reggae, swing, march
Official classification: Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Curriculum support, 4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices
Recognizing the sound of music with different layers and textures. Drag the excerpt alongside the description of its texture.
Other keywords:
listening, melody, chordal, accompaniment, round, solo, duetdad09
Official classification: Texture, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Curriculum support, 4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices
Recognizing tempo and tempo changes and the words used to describe them. Drag the excerpt alongside the description of its tempo.
Other keywords:
listening, presto, accelerando, ritenuto, adagio
Official classification: Tempo, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Curriculum support, 4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices
Track 1 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 3.
Music from South America, from Saydisc album 'Music of the Andes', performed by Caliche (3'01")
Main features: ostinato, changes in tempo and metre.
This track from the Andes, features three South American Instruments. These are the quena, a type of flute, the charango, a small lute, and the bombo, meaning 'drum'. The Track Explorer has five learning tracks focusing on instrumentation, structure, the repeating rhythm ostinato on the bomb, phrasing of the quena and chords.
Official classification: Listening, Ostinato, South America, Key Stage 3, Latin America, Quena, Bombo, Charango, Track Explorer, 4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Track 5 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 3. Folk Singing from Bulgaria, from Saydisc album 'Vocal Traditions of Bulgaria', performed by a folk group from Bansko (4'09")
Main features: mixolydian mode, drone.
This Bulgarian Folk song is performed by an unaccompanied male choir. The learning tracks of the Track Explorer focus on the verses, main melody and drone.
Official classification: Listening, Example Voices, Key Stage 3, Bulgaria, Eastern Europe, Mixolydian, Male Voice Choir, Drone, Track Explorer, Curriculum support, 4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Track 8 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 3. Main features: rondo form, Latin rhythms. Accordion music in Latin style from Saydisc album 'Fleur du Jura', performed by Danielle Pauly (2'36")
This music from Latin America is a rondo. The accordion plays the melody and the keyboard, bass and percussion provide the accompaniment. The Track Explorer has four tracks focusing on instrumentation, rondo form, key and the chords to the first two phrases.
Official classification: Accordian, Listening, Rondo, South America, Key Stage 3, Latin America, Caribbean, Habanera, Track Explorer, 4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Tags: key change, modulation, melody and accompaniment
Track 2 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 3.
Music from the Ashkenazi tradition, from Saydisc album 'Raisins and Almonds', performed by The Burning Bush (2'22")
Main features: Eastern scale patterns, structure, gradual change in tempo.
This piece of klezmer music is played on the clarinet, guitar, bass and tambourine. It uses an Eastern scale pattern. The learning tracks focus on instrumentation and different the sections of the piece.
Official classification: Acoustic Guitar, Accordian, Tambourine, Double Bass, Europe, Key Stage 3, Bb Clarinet, Poland, Ukraine, Middle Eastern, Eastern Europe, Curriculum support, 4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices, Saydisc Records
Track 11 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to This' for Key Stage 3. Also used as track 18 of Saydisc Percussion Around the World.
Traditional music from Rajasthan, from Saydisc album 'Rajasthani Folk Music', performed by Habib and Ramjan Khan (3'47"). Main features: pentantonic scale, drone, rondo, melodic decoration, improvisation, circular breathing.
This piece of Rajasthani folk music features the use of the dadara santara, a double flute with a drone pipe and the dholak, an Indian drum. The three learning tracks of the Track Explorer focus on instrumentation, the drone and pentatonic melody.
Official classification: Listening, Key Stage 3, Pentatonic Scales, India, South Asia, Dadara Santara, Dholak, Drone, Track Explorer, 4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices, Unit 15. Song, Saydisc Records
Track 6 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 3. Song with rebabah from East Sudan, from Saydisc album 'Spirit of African Sanctus', recorded by David Fanshawe (1'32")
Main features: rebabah, Arabic scale pattern.
This song from East Sudan features a male singer accompanying himself on a rebabah, a one stringed fiddle. The four learning tracks of the Track Explorer focus on instrumentation, the sung melody, the rebabah's repeated pattern and decorative figure.
Official classification: Listening, Key Stage 3, Sudan, Arabic, North Africa , Rebabah, Track Explorer, 4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Track 3 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 3.
Shakuhachi solo from Japan, from Saydisc album 'Kurokami', performed by Clive Bell (1'51")
Main features: the shakuhachi, improvisatory style, changes in dynamics
This music from Japan features the shakuhachi, a Japanese bamboo flute. The learning tracks of the Track Explorer focus on breath techniques of the performer, use of dynamics and note centres.
Official classification: Dynamics, Example Instruments, Key Stage 3, Pentatonic Scales, Japan, Far East, Shakuhachi, Track Explorer, 4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music