Key Stage 1
Animated question "what is the musical name used to describe the range of loud and quiet sounds in music?"
Official classification: Dynamics, Unit 1. Ongoing skills, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Unit 8 Ongoing Skills, Unit 15 Ongoing Skills, Curriculum support
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Animated explanation of the musical element "dynamics"
Official classification: Dynamics, Unit 1. Ongoing skills, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Unit 8 Ongoing Skills, Unit 15 Ongoing Skills, Curriculum support
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Classic fairy tale. Audio narrated by Natasha from Storynory.com
Official classification: Listening, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Fairy Tales, Curriculum support, Storynory.com
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A dinosaur poem by Giles Paley-Phillips and domestic drama in The Bump in the Rug. Audio narrated by Natasha from storynory.com
Official classification: Listening, Animals, Poetry, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Unit 21 Who Knows, Curriculum support, Storynory.com
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Excellent example of jazz music that uses repeated patterns, as recommended for use in QCA Scheme of work for KS2 - Unit 10 Play It Again.
Official classification: Jazz, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Unit 10 Play It Again, Curriculum support
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Children's dipping rhyme from Saydisc's Children's Singing Games, recorded at St Mary's School, Edinburgh (1961)
Official classification: Singing, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Unit 14 Salt Pepper Vinegar Mustard, Curriculum support, Children, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
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Children's skipping game from Saydisc's Children's Singing Games, recorded at St Michael's Junior School for Girls, Workington (1960)
Official classification: Singing, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Unit 14 Salt Pepper Vinegar Mustard, Curriculum support, Children, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
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Children's singing game from Saydisc's Children's Singing Games, recorded at Egremont RC Junior School, West Cumberland (1965)
Official classification: Singing, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Unit 14 Salt Pepper Vinegar Mustard, Curriculum support, Children, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
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Children's singing 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
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The first of Aaron Copland's work from 1920. Suggested as example of descriptive music to create mood and atmosphere on www.m4t.org for KS2.
Official classification: Animals, 1900-1949, Classical Pieces, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, United States, Unit 9 Animal Magic, Curriculum support, Copland, Aaron
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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
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A backing track for a piece from Lambeth Music Service's Musitrax Play.
Official classification: Glockenspiel, Pieces, Key Stage 1, Lambeth Music Service, SMILE
Note names: C, E, A
Tags: notes:name=A, notes:name=C, notes:name=E
A backing track for a piece from Lambeth Music Service's Musitrax Play.
Official classification: Glockenspiel, Pieces, Key Stage 1, Lambeth Music Service, SMILE
Note names: D, E, F#, G, A, B
Tags: notes:name=A, notes:name=B, notes:name=D, notes:name=E, notes:name=F#, notes:name=G
Piece 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. Uses solfa notes la, so, mi, re and do (pentatonic scale) in D major.
Official classification: Teaching Songs, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 1, Voice, Lambeth Music Service, Musitrax
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Piece 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. Uses solfa notes so, mi, re and do in D major.
Official classification: Teaching Songs, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 1, Voice, Lambeth Music Service, Musitrax
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Piece 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. Uses solfa notes mi, re and do in C major.
Official classification: Teaching Songs, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 1, Voice, Lambeth Music Service, Musitrax
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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
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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
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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
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Piece 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. Uses solfa notes so and mi in C major.
Official classification: Teaching Songs, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 1, Voice, Lambeth Music Service, Musitrax
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