Musical Elements
America's Ballroom challenge, features context in San Diego with the Foxtrot.
Official classification: Dance, Video, Dance, Foxtrot, Curriculum support, Unit 9. Music for dance
Clip of instructional DVD from www.dancenetproductions.com
Official classification: Dance, Video, Dance, Foxtrot, Curriculum support, Unit 9. Music for dance
Audio clip examples of sounds with a beat
Official classification: Understanding Sound, Non-Musical Sounds, Pulse (Beat), Unit 2. Sounds interesting - Exploring sounds, Unit 4. Feel the pulse - Exploring pulse and rhythm, Audio, Interactive Activities, Curriculum support
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Official classification: Cello, Pieces, Forte Loud, Piano Soft, Wider opps, Resource Packs
Encourage your students to do some musical experimenting: ask them to find out
which notes sound well together. Then choose a soloist or small group to fill the
spaces in the the middle section with any note/s.
Notes used: C, D, F, G
Key: concert Eb major
Learning points: dynamics: mf
accents
Official classification: Nursery Rhymes, Pieces, Bb Clarinet, Mezzoforte Moderately Loud, Wider opps, Resource Packs
Recorder Foundation
Official classification: Recorder Family, Soprano/descant, Dynamics, Unit 2. Sounds interesting - Exploring sounds, Pieces, Resource Packs
Tags: composition, English, listening
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
This duet introduces the note F. Dynamics are echoed from part to part. Part 2 is
easier than Part 1: it uses only notes C and F. The pause at the end lasts for seven
beats.
Notes used: Part 1 – C, F, G;
Part 2 – C, F
Key: concert Eb
Learning points: new note F, dotted minim, pause, reading from two staves
Official classification: Trombone (treble clef), Dynamics, Pieces, Dotted Minim, Echo, Wider opps, Resource Packs
Here’s some more practice at playing the five notes C, D, E, F, G.
Notes used: C, D, E, F, G
Key: concert Bb
Learning points: dotted crotchet/quaver rhythm, dynamics: mf
Official classification: Trombone (treble clef), Christmas, Pieces, Dotted Crotchet, Quaver, Mezzoforte Moderately Loud, 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
C and G are played in the same piece here, and reinforced as ‘high’ and ‘low’ notes.
The piece gives plenty of repetition of both notes.
Notes used: C, G
Key: concert Bb major
Learning points: reinforces crotchet/minim/minim rest
Official classification: Trumpet, High, low and changing, Animals, Pieces, Wider opps, Resource Packs
Here’s some more practice at playing the five notes C, D, E, F, G.
Notes used: C, D, E, F, G
Key: concert Bb
Official classification: Trumpet, Christmas, Pieces, Dotted Crotchet, Quaver, Mezzoforte Moderately Loud, Wider opps, Resource Packs
This piece introduces open string E. There’s an opportunity for a bit of fun in bars 9-10, when the students are invited to pizz any string on the wrong side of the bridge.
There’s a fl ea in the accompaniment, too!
Notes used: D, A, E
Key: A minor
Learning points: new note: E
pizz on the wrong side of the bridge
Official classification: Violin, Animals, Pieces, Pizzicato, Wider opps, Resource Packs
Bowing is introduced here, and all four strings are played. The piece is played twice
through. Speak or whisper the words in bars 11-12 and 21-22, and finish with a
loud and rhythmic stamp of one foot!
Notes used: G, D, A, E
Key: A major
Learning points: arco
down-up bowing
written symbols for down-bow/up-bow
Official classification: Violin, Pieces, Arco, Wider opps, Resource Packs
Whisper/speak/shout the words in the opening bars and at the end with authenticity!
In the final bar, students play a pizz arpeggio across all four strings instead of
– or as well as – a cheer! The structure is AABA.
Notes used: G, D, A, E
Key: C minor
Learning points: reinforces 3/4
pizz arpeggio
Official classification: Violin, Pieces, Pizzicato, Wider opps, Resource Packs
Circular bowing and dynamics f/p are introduced.
Notes used: G, D, A, E
Key: D minor
Learning points: circular bowing
dynamics: f, p
crossing two strings
Official classification: Violin, 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
Ney Rosauro is currently the Director of Percussion Studies at the University of Miami and has developed a successful international career as an educator, a percussionist and a composer. Watch as Ney performs his composition "Brazilian Landscape" - a musical journey through his native Brazil.
Official classification: Percussion, Vibraphone, Timbre, South America, Video, Latin, Vic Firth
Famous piece by American 20th Century composer Aaron Copland, written in 1942.
KS1 idea; an example of short and long sounds played by Brass and Percussion instruments.
Official classification: 1900-1949, Military & State Occasions, Classical Pieces, Audio, Long and Short Sounds, Curriculum support, Copland, Aaron
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