Wind
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 23 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 3. A selection of music played on a variety of popular Elizabethan instruments from Saydisc album 'Music from the Time of the Spanish Armada', performed by the York Waits (4'22")
Main features: Tudor music, early instruments.
These five dances from the sixteenth century are played on various early instruments including the pipe, tabor, shawms, Flemish bagpipe and sopranino recorder. The learning tracks of the Track Explorer focus on instrumentation.
Official classification: Listening, Example Instruments, Tudor England, The Renaissance, Dance, Key Stage 3, Shawm, Tabor, Pipe, Sopranino Recorder, Flemish Bagpipes, Track Explorer, 4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices, Saydisc Records
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 28 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 3. Two versions of a well-known 17th century tune from Amon Ra album 'John Playford's Popular Tunes', performed by 'The Broadside Band' (3'20")
Main features: 'divisions' or variations, different arrangements of the same tune, early instruments.
These two arrangements of a tune popular in the 17th century, feature early instruments. These are the sopranino and treble recorders, baroque violin, cittern and bass viol. The Track Explorer has three tracks focusing on instrumentation, 'divisions' and elaboration of the melody.
Official classification: Listening, Variations (Divisions), The Baroque Era, Dance, Key Stage 3, Britain and Ireland, Western Europe, Sopranino Recorder, Baroque Violin, Viol, Cittern, England, 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 traditional spanish reed instrument, for an example listen to Track 17 An Dro Nevez
Official classification: Image, Bombarde, Curriculum support
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 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
Track 23 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 2. Dance music from the time of Queen Elizabeth 1, from Saydisc album 'Music from the time of the Spanish Armada (1'17") Main features: instrumentation, structure, drone.
This lively dance from the Tudor period features the Northumbrian bagpipes and soprano shawm. The learning tracks of the Track Explorer focus on instrumentation, structure, drone on bagpipes and percussion sections.
Official classification: Listening, Tudor England, The Renaissance, Interactive Activities, Shawm, Drone, England, English Bagpipes, Hurdy-gurdy, Track Explorer, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
This traditional dance with a strong skipping rhythm and catchy tune, is played by two violins, a clarinet and serpent (a deep sounding, early wind instrument). The Track Explorer has two learning tracks focusing on instrumentation and structure.
Official classification: Violin, Listening, Europe, Dance, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 1, Bb Clarinet, Serpent, Track Explorer, Curriculum support, Charanga, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Track 32 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 1. Morris Dance from the time of Elisabeth I, from Saydisc album 'Music from the time of the Spanish Armada (1'20") Main features: early instruments, structure. This music is played on early instruments such as the cornett, sackbut and bass curtal. The Track Explorer has two learning tracks focusing on instrumentation and structure.
Official classification: Listening, Form & Structure, Tudor England, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 1, Sackbut, Cornett, Dulzaina, Track Explorer, Curriculum support, Charanga, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Track 25 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 1. Music from Thomas Hardy's Wessex, from Saydisc album 'Under the Greenwood Tree' (4'15") Main features: early instrument, structure, rhythm, drone. This jig, or dance with a skipping rhythm, is played on flute, fiddle, drum and the serpent (a deep sounding, early wind instrument). The Track Explorer has two learning tracks focusing on instrumentation and structure.
Official classification: Other Bowed Strings, Flute, Listening, Dance, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 1, United Kingdom, Drone, England, Serpent, Track Explorer, Curriculum support, Charanga, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Track 33 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 1. From Saydisc album 'Music from the time of the Spanish Armada (0'48") Main feature: drone. This tune, popular in Elizabethan times, is played on Flemish bagpipes and a sopranino recorder. The Track Explorer has one learning track focusing on features of the music.
Official classification: Listening, Tudor England, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 1, Sopranino Recorder, Flemish Bagpipes, Drone, Track Explorer, Curriculum support, Charanga, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Track 18 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 1. Festive Music from the York Waits, from Saydisc album 'Music from the Time of Richard III' (1'43") Main features: early instruments, structure. This piece is played by early instruments such as the shawm (predecessor of the oboe) and busine (similar to a trumpet). The Track Explorer has two learning tracks focusing on instrumentation and structure.
Official classification: Listening, Tudor England, Community Events & Special Occasions, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 1, France, Shawm, Brass, England, Track Explorer, Curriculum support, Charanga, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Track 26 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 1. Music from Thomas Hardy's Wessex, from Saydisc album 'Under the Greenwood Tree' (4'15") Main features: rondo form, early instrument. This piece is a rondo played by clarinets, flute, the serpent (a deep sounding, early wind instrument) and drums. The Track Explorer has two learning tracks focusing on instrumentation and structure.
Official classification: Clarinet Family, Flute, Listening, Rondo, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 1, United States, England, Serpent, Track Explorer, Curriculum support, Charanga, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music