Animated question "what is the musical name used to describe the range of loud and quiet sounds in music?"

An extract from the Classical Destinations series (www.classicaldestinations.com) - an introduction by Haylie Ecker.

This is a specially restored version of a very old (1922) silent black and white cartoon movie. Felix wants to go swimming and asks a boy (Willie) to go with him. But Willie has to do piano practice. Things go wrong when they get some mice to play the piano instead and a goat eats their clothes while they swim!

KS2/3/4 idea: All the dialogue is shown onscreen as speech bubbles. This is an ideal opportunity to get students to make a soundtrack for this old silent film, with plenty of opportunity for easy sound effects. They could include speech (optional), sound effects and music to suit their age and ability. The whole movie lasts less than 3 minutes and with some groups it might be appropriate to divide it into shorter sections and get different groups to work on music for the different sections.

Classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale. Audio narration by Natasha from storynory.com

Audio clip, recommended for listening to repeating patterns and contrasts in dynamics on www.m4t.org

Children's dipping rhyme from Saydisc's Children's Singing Games, recorded at St Mary's School, Edinburgh (1961)

Children's clapping game from Saydisc's Children's Singing Games, recorded at St Mary's School, Edinburgh (1961)

Children's skipping game from Saydisc's Children's Singing Games, recorded at St Michael's Junior School for Girls, Workington (1960)

Miley Cyrus single from the Hannah Montana movie soundtrack. The Hoedown Throwdown is a dance based on American line dancing. Some use of mnemonics to provide rhythm for the moves, which could be used as example at KS1 or KS2.

Originally written in 1954, this version released in 1964 featuring Sinatra singing, accompanied by Count Basie's Big Band. Played by both Apollo 10 on their moon orbital mission and Apollo 11 when on the moon.