Key Stages
Analyzing the notes and chords of a song is a major part of music theory.
Official classification: Understanding Notation, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 4, Chord progressions, Curriculum support, Musictheory.net
In this analysis, we will be examining bars 48-50 of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (Opus 27, Number 2, Movement 1).
Official classification: Understanding Notation, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 4, Chord progressions, Curriculum support, Musictheory.net
In this analysis, we will be looking at the first few bars of Auld Lang Syne, a traditional Scottish ballad.
Official classification: Understanding Notation, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 4, Chord progressions, Curriculum support, Musictheory.net
Interactive action song. Full version.
Official classification: Singing, Unit 1. Ongoing skills, Key Stage 1, Curriculum support, 1a Controlling sounds - singing
Interactive action song, backing track and words for class to sing along.
Official classification: Singing, Unit 1. Ongoing skills, Key Stage 1, Curriculum support, 1a Controlling sounds - singing
Audio narration by Natasha from Storynory.com. Aladdin’s Lamp is packed with oriental mystique - not one, but two genies, wicked magicians, gold and jewels galore, a palace that is transported through thin air, a beautiful princes, and a poor boy who gets very lucky indeed.
Official classification: Listening, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Fairy Tales, Curriculum support, Storynory.com
Open Sesame ! The famous story from Persia of how Ali Baba outwitted a band of robbers with a little help from the clever slave-girl, Morgiana. Audio narrated by Natasha from Storynory.com
Official classification: Listening, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Fairy Tales, Curriculum support, Storynory.com
Aesop’s fable of the runaway slave and the lion with a thorn in its paw. A tale story of gratitude. Narrated by Natasha from Storynory.com
Official classification: Listening, Animals, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Fairy Tales, Unit 9 Animal Magic, Curriculum support, Storynory.com
Aesop’s fables are loved pretty much everywhere. In these four audio adaptations by Storynory a rat, grasshopper, a fox and a mouse tell their tales in their own words.
Official classification: Listening, Animals, The Spoken Word, Stories, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Fairy Tales, Unit 9 Animal Magic, Curriculum support, Storynory.com
Tongue Twister, audio by Storynory.com
Official classification: Listening, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Tongue Twisters, Unit 15 Ongoing Skills, Curriculum support, Storynory.com
Tongue Twister, audio by Storynory.com
Official classification: Listening, Animals, Tongue Twisters, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Unit 15 Ongoing Skills, Curriculum support, Storynory.com
Two poems. Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore. No Rudolf but Santa’s Reindeer Dasha, Dancer, Prancer and Vixen feature. Audio narration by Natasha from storynory.com
Official classification: Listening, Christmas, Poetry, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Unit 21 Who Knows, Curriculum support, Storynory.com
Children's clapping game from Saydisc's Children's Singing Games, recorded at St John's Baloonagh Primary School, Tralee, Southern Ireland (1975)
Official classification: Singing, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Unit 14 Salt Pepper Vinegar Mustard, Curriculum support, Children, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Children's clapping game from Saydisc's Children's Singing Games, recorded at Ballyheigue and Glenderry Primary Schools, Southern Ireland (1975)
Official classification: Singing, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Unit 14 Salt Pepper Vinegar Mustard, Curriculum support, Children, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Video TV footage of AC/DC's 1976 guitar riff driven rock classic.
Official classification: 1970s, Video, Key Stage 3, Curriculum support, Unit 10. Hooks and riffs, Heavy Metal
Live backing sequencer to support a composition or improvisation based on Track 02 Amanecer Andino (Andean Dawn) from Saydisc Percussion Around the World. (Also Track 01 of Saydisc Listen to This! KS3.) In the original recording there's a free slow introduction followed by a faster section based on C and Am chords, but with this tool users can decide their own structure.
KS2/3 idea - students can use this tool to provide an accompaniment while one student performs live their own version of a characteristic pentatonic melody on a separate instrument. Students can also use this tool for support as they play along and learn the ostinato drum and guitar parts.
Official classification: Percussion, Composing, Improvising, Rehearsing, Ostinato, Melody, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Pentatonic Scales, The Andes, Curriculum support, Melody, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Tone set from Lambeth Music Service’s MX Sing; a child-centred approach to music teaching for Years 1 and 2, based on Kodály principles, using singing and singing games with fun and learning through play at its heart.
Official classification: Teaching Songs, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 1, Voice, Lambeth Music Service, Musitrax
Song from Lambeth Music Service’s MX Sing; a child-centred approach to music teaching for Years 1 and 2, based on Kodály principles, using singing and singing games with fun and learning through play at its heart. Using notes from Do diatonic.
Official classification: Teaching Songs, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 1, Voice, Lambeth Music Service, Musitrax
Song for pleasure from Lambeth Music Service’s MX Sing; a child-centred approach to music teaching for Years 1 and 2, based on Kodály principles, using singing and singing games with fun and learning through play at its heart.
Official classification: Teaching Songs, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 1, Voice, Lambeth Music Service, Musitrax
Rhyme from Lambeth Music Service’s MX Sing; a child-centred approach to music teaching for Years 1 and 2, based on Kodály principles, using singing and singing games with fun and learning through play at its heart.
Official classification: Teaching Songs, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 1, Voice, Lambeth Music Service, Musitrax