Pitch
Use the interactive tool in this piece for children to explore how to play instruments with a variety of different sound qualities, including dynamics, timbres and speed.
Official classification: Dynamics, Pitch, Tempo, Interactive Activities, Curriculum support, 1b Controlling sounds - playing, 1c Controlling sounds - performing together, 1b Controlling sounds - playing
Use the interactive tool in this piece for children to explore how to play instruments with a variety of different sound qualities, including dynamics, timbres and speed.
Official classification: Dynamics, Pitch, Tempo, Interactive Activities, Curriculum support, 1b Controlling sounds - playing, 1c Controlling sounds - performing together, 1b Controlling sounds - playing
Use the interactive tool in this piece for children to explore how to play instruments with a variety of different sound qualities, including dynamics, timbres and speed.
Official classification: Dynamics, Pitch, Tempo, Interactive Activities, Curriculum support, 1b Controlling sounds - playing, 1c Controlling sounds - performing together, 1b Controlling sounds - playing
Interactive piece for children to explore how to play instruments with a variety of different sound qualities, including dynamics, timbres and speed.
Official classification: Dynamics, Pitch, Tempo, Interactive Activities, Curriculum support, 1b Controlling sounds - playing, 1c Controlling sounds - performing together, 1b Controlling sounds - playing
Unlike the major scale, three different minor scales exist.
Official classification: Understanding Notation, Scales, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 4, Minor Scales, Curriculum support, Musictheory.net
Video singing lesson on warming up the voice with a groove.
Official classification: Singing Techniques, High, low and changing, Example Voices, Video, Voice, Female, Male, 1a Controlling sounds - singing
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
Audio clips that illustrate different changes in pitch.
Official classification: Understanding Sound, Non-Musical Sounds, Pitch, High, low and changing, Unit 5. Taking off - Exploring pitch, Audio, Interactive Activities, High and Low Sounds, Curriculum support
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
Music animation machine - Contrapuntal keyboard music by William Byrd, performed by Stephen Malinowski, with video of hands playing and scrolling bar-graph score.
Official classification: Pitch, The Renaissance, Classical Pieces, Video, Curriculum support, Byrd, William
Extract from the illustrated Rudiments of Wisdom encyclopaedia by Tim Hunkin. www.rudimentsofwisdom.com.
Thousands of cartoons covering almost everything there is to know!
Official classification: Pitch, China, Curriculum support, Rudiments of Wisdom
Number 7 of 8 from the orchestral suite to accompany the ballet Appalachian Spring. Suggested as useful example for listening to changes in mode and
tempo in QCA Unit 7 for KS3 'Variations'.
Official classification: Modes, Tempo, 1900-1949, Dance, Classical Pieces, Audio, United States, Curriculum support, Unit 7. Variations, Copland, Aaron
Number 3 of 8 from the orchestral suite to accompany the ballet Appalachian Spring. Suggested as useful example for listening to changes in mode and
tempo in QCA Unit 7 for KS3 'Variations'.
Official classification: Modes, Tempo, 1900-1949, Dance, Classical Pieces, Audio, United States, Curriculum support, Unit 7. Variations, Copland, Aaron
Number 1 of 8 from the orchestral suite to accompany the ballet Appalachian Spring. Suggested as useful example for listening to changes in mode and
tempo in QCA Unit 7 for KS3 'Variations'.
Official classification: Modes, Tempo, 1900-1949, Dance, Classical Pieces, Audio, United States, Curriculum support, Unit 7. Variations, Copland, Aaron
Number 8 of 8 from the orchestral suite to accompany the ballet Appalachian Spring. Suggested as useful example for listening to changes in mode and
tempo in QCA Unit 7 for KS3 'Variations'.
Official classification: Modes, Tempo, 1900-1949, Dance, Classical Pieces, Audio, United States, Curriculum support, Unit 7. Variations, Copland, Aaron
Number 5 of 8 from the orchestral suite to accompany the ballet Appalachian Spring. Suggested as useful example for listening to changes in mode and
tempo in QCA Unit 7 for KS3 'Variations'.
Official classification: Modes, Tempo, 1900-1949, Dance, Classical Pieces, Audio, United States, Curriculum support, Unit 7. Variations, Copland, Aaron
Number 6 of 8 from the orchestral suite to accompany the ballet Appalachian Spring. Suggested as useful example for listening to changes in mode and
tempo in QCA Unit 7 for KS3 'Variations'.
Official classification: Modes, Tempo, 1900-1949, Dance, Classical Pieces, Audio, United States, Curriculum support, Unit 7. Variations, Copland, Aaron
Number 2 of 8 from the orchestral suite to accompany the ballet Appalachian Spring. Suggested as useful example for listening to changes in mode and
tempo in QCA Unit 7 for KS3 'Variations'.
Official classification: Modes, Tempo, 1900-1949, Dance, Classical Pieces, Audio, United States, Curriculum support, Unit 7. Variations, Copland, Aaron
Number 4 of 8 from the orchestral suite to accompany the ballet Appalachian Spring. Suggested as useful example for listening to changes in mode and
tempo in QCA Unit 7 for KS3 'Variations'.
Official classification: Modes, Tempo, 1900-1949, Dance, Classical Pieces, Audio, United States, Curriculum support, Unit 7. Variations, Copland, Aaron
Pupils can listen separately to each of the four melodic phrases from the Drunken Sailor. Then they can place them in order to recreate the piece (or place in their own order to create a new piece). Excellent exercise for KS1 or KS2 pupils for understanding pitch, shape and phrasing. See also 'Track 03 What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor' track explorer for prior listening.
Official classification: Listening, Graphical Notation, Arranging, Pitch, Rounds , Melody, Interactive Activities, Puzzle, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Curriculum support, Saydisc Records, List Sequencer, Melody