Early Instruments
Track 15 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 3. Traditional Spanish music from Amon Ra album 'Oboe Collection', performed by Robin Canter (1'39")
Main features: traditional European instruments of the oboe family, ostinato.
This Spanish piece features the dulzaina (a traditional folk instrument of Castile) and side drum. The Track Explorer has three learning tracks focusing on instrumentation, structure and the rhythmic ostinato.
Official classification: Listening, Example Instruments, Ostinato, Key Stage 3, Spain, Western Europe, Dulzaina, Track Explorer, 4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices, Unit 15. Song, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Track 16 from Charanga/ Saydisc / Christine Richards orject - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 3. Traditional Turkish tune from Amon Ra album 'Oboe Collection' performed by Robin Canter (2'13")
Main features: traditional European instruments of the oboe family, ostinato, circular breathing, pirouette, duple time.
This piece is played on a Turkish reed instrument, the zurna, with an accompanying drum. The Track Explorer has three learning tracks focusing on instrumentation, structure and drum rhythms.
Official classification: Listening, Example Instruments, Ostinato, Key Stage 3, Turkey, Middle East, Zurna, Track Explorer, 4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Track 17 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 3. Traditional Breton music from Amon Ra album 'Oboe Collection', performed by Robin Canter. Alternative spelling: An Dro Neves (1'39").
Main features: traditional European instruments of the oboe family, bombarde. ostinato.
This Breton piece features the bombarde (a reed instrument of medieval origin) and drum. The second half is a repeat of the first (AA structure). The Track Explorer has three learning tracks focusing on instrumentation, structure and drum ostinato.
Official classification: Listening, Example Instruments, Ostinato, Key Stage 3, Western Europe, Bombarde, Brittany, Track Explorer, 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
Track 18 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 3. Anon. 13th century tune from Amon Ra album 'Oboe Collection' performed by Robin Canter (1'24") Main features: traditional European instruments, ostinato. This is an old European dance played on the treble shawm and nakers. The Track Explorer has three learning tracks focusing on instrumentation, ostinato and the first four phrases of the piece.
Official classification: Ostinato, The Middle Ages, Interactive Activities, Shawm, Nakers, Early Music, Track Explorer, Curriculum support, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Image of traditional spanish wind instrument. For an example, listen to Track 15 Alborada - Dulzaina from saydisc material
Official classification: Image, Dulzaina, Curriculum support, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Picture of Tabor player. The tabor is a percussion instrument from Tudor times. You can listen to examples: Track 23 Dances from the Time of Queen Elizabeth I, 15 Jameko - Jamaica or Track 13 L'Hom Armé from the Saydisc material.
Official classification: Tudor England, Image, Key Stage 2, Tabor, Curriculum support, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Picture of traditional spanish reed instrument, for an example listen to Track 17 An Dro Nevez
Official classification: Image, Bombarde, Curriculum support
Picture of early string instrument, for an example listen to Track 20 Bergamasca from the saydisc material
Official classification: Tudor England, Image, Lute, Curriculum support, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Image of these early brass predecessors to the modern trombone. For an example, listen to Track 13 L'Hom Armé
Official classification: Tudor England, The Renaissance, The Baroque Era, Image, Sackbut, Curriculum support
Image of early stringed instrument, for example listen to Track 28 Prince Rupert's March and Prins Robbert Masco from saydisc material
Official classification: Image, Cittern, Curriculum support, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Image of 3 cornetts; early woodwind instruments. For an example, listen to Track 13 L'Hom Armé from saydisc material
Official classification: Image, Cornett, Curriculum support, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Picture of early woodwind reed instrutment. Can be heard in Track 23 Dances from the Time of Queen Elizabeth I and Track 13 L'Hom Armé from Saydisc material
Official classification: Image, Shawm, Curriculum support, 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 16 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 2. Music for medieval harp from Amon Ra album 'Harp Collection (1'10")
Main features: timbre, structure, melody.
This lovely pastoral melody from France is played on a medieval harp. The Track Explorer has two learning tracks focusing on instrumentation and structure.
Official classification: Listening, Ternary(ABA), The Middle Ages, Interactive Activities, France, Phrygian, Early Music, Medieval harp, Track Explorer, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Track 18 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 2. Country Dance from Thomas Hardy's Wessex, from Saydisc album 'Under the Greenwood Tree' (2'49")
Main features: instrumentation, structure .
This dance was popular in nineteenth century England and features a deep sounding, early wind instrument, the serpent. The Track Explorer has two learning tracks focusing on structure and arrangement.
Official classification: Tambourine, Violin, C Clarinet, Flute, Listening, The Romantic Period, Interactive Activities, Serpent, Track Explorer, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
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Official classification: Violin, Early Instruments, Rebec, Curriculum support, Rudiments of Wisdom
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 7 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 1. Music from the time of Henry VIII, from Amon Ra album 'The Field of Cloth of Gold' (1'58") Main features: early instruments, rhythm. These two dances played on a consort or group of viols, were popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Track Explorer has two learning tracks focusing on instrumentation and features of the dances.
Official classification: Rhythm, Tudor England, The Baroque Era, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 1, Viol, Track Explorer, Curriculum support, Charanga, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music