Early Instruments
Track 15 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 3. Traditional Spanish music from Amon Ra album 'Oboe Collection', performed by Robin Canter (1'39")
Main features: traditional European instruments of the oboe family, ostinato.
This Spanish piece features the dulzaina (a traditional folk instrument of Castile) and side drum. The Track Explorer has three learning tracks focusing on instrumentation, structure and the rhythmic ostinato.
Official classification: Listening, Example Instruments, Ostinato, Key Stage 3, Spain, Western Europe, Dulzaina, Track Explorer, 4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices, Unit 15. Song, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Track 4 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 2 . Famous seventeenth century English tune from Amon Ra album 'John Playford's Popular Tunes' (1'53")
Main features: early instruments, descant, structure.
This piece of seventeenth century music features the mandore (type of lute similar to a mandolin), bass viol and flageolet (type of flute similar to a recorder). The Track Explorer has three learning tracks focusing on instrumentation, melody and arrangement.
Official classification: Listening, Example Instruments, Tudor England, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 2, Viol, Early Music, England, Unit 15 Ongoing Skills, Flageolet, Mandore, Track Explorer, 4a Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - aural memory, 4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Image of traditional spanish wind instrument. For an example, listen to Track 15 Alborada - Dulzaina from saydisc material
Official classification: Image, Dulzaina, Curriculum support, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Picture of Tabor player. The tabor is a percussion instrument from Tudor times. You can listen to examples: Track 23 Dances from the Time of Queen Elizabeth I, 15 Jameko - Jamaica or Track 13 L'Hom Armé from the Saydisc material.
Official classification: Tudor England, Image, Key Stage 2, Tabor, Curriculum support, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Picture of traditional spanish reed instrument, for an example listen to Track 17 An Dro Nevez
Official classification: Image, Bombarde, Curriculum support
Picture of early string instrument, for an example listen to Track 20 Bergamasca from the saydisc material
Official classification: Tudor England, Image, Lute, Curriculum support, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Image of these early brass predecessors to the modern trombone. For an example, listen to Track 13 L'Hom Armé
Official classification: Tudor England, The Renaissance, The Baroque Era, Image, Sackbut, Curriculum support
Image of early stringed instrument, for example listen to Track 28 Prince Rupert's March and Prins Robbert Masco from saydisc material
Official classification: Image, Cittern, Curriculum support, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Image of 3 cornetts; early woodwind instruments. For an example, listen to Track 13 L'Hom Armé from saydisc material
Official classification: Image, Cornett, Curriculum support, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Picture of early woodwind reed instrutment. Can be heard in Track 23 Dances from the Time of Queen Elizabeth I and Track 13 L'Hom Armé from Saydisc material
Official classification: Image, Shawm, Curriculum support, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
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Official classification: Violin, Early Instruments, Rebec, Curriculum support, Rudiments of Wisdom
Track 11 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Religions of the World' (3'36") Hymn by Charles Wesley. This hymn features singers accompanied by violin, bassoon, bass, lute and tabor. The Track Explorer has two learning tracks, focusing on instrumentation and structure.
Official classification: Double Bass, Violin, Listening, Part-singing, Harmony, Tudor England, The Baroque Era, Religion, Devotion & Meditation, Interactive Activities, Female, Male, Tabor, Lute, England, Track Explorer, Christianity, Hymnns, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Track 7 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 1. Music from the time of Henry VIII, from Amon Ra album 'The Field of Cloth of Gold' (1'58") Main features: early instruments, rhythm. These two dances played on a consort or group of viols, were popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Track Explorer has two learning tracks focusing on instrumentation and features of the dances.
Official classification: Rhythm, Tudor England, The Baroque Era, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 1, Viol, Track Explorer, Curriculum support, Charanga, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
This Listen and Respond resource is one of a range of resources relating to track 28 of the Saydisk 'Listen To This, KS3' world music recordings. It is suitable for use on first listening. The Active Listening points suggest specific (differentiated) things for pupils to listen out for as the music plays through.
Three further menu items show texts with missing words that users choose from a pop-up list of alternatives. A correct choice is signalled with a green highlight, so it is possible to learn basic background musical information through intelligent self-discovery. More detailed understanding and follow-up activities are available through other resources based on the same piece - please search the title of the track to find these.
Official classification: The Baroque Era, Interactive Activities, Sopranino Recorder, Baroque Violin, Viol, Cittern, England, Curriculum support, Saydisc Records
Tags: divisions, variations, arrangement, duet, cittern, ensembles, embellishment
This Listen and Respond resource is one of a range of resources relating to track 23 of the Saydisk 'Listen To This, KS3' world music recordings. It is suitable for use on first listening. The Active Listening points suggest specific (differentiated) things for pupils to listen out for as the music plays through.
Three further menu items show texts with missing words that users choose from a pop-up list of alternatives. A correct choice is signalled with a green highlight, so it is possible to learn basic background musical information through intelligent self-discovery. More detailed understanding and follow-up activities are available through other resources based on the same piece - please search the title of the track to find these.
Official classification: The Renaissance, Interactive Activities, Shawm, Tabor, Pipe, Sopranino Recorder, Flemish Bagpipes, Curriculum support, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Tags: medley, consort, embellished repeat, tabor, flemish bagpipe
This Listen and Respond resource is one of a range of resources relating to track 15 of the Saydisk 'Listen To This, KS3' world music recordings. It is suitable for use on first listening. The Active Listening points suggest specific (differentiated) things for pupils to listen out for as the music plays through.
Three further menu items show texts with missing words that users choose from a pop-up list of alternatives. A correct choice is signalled with a green highlight, so it is possible to learn basic background musical information through intelligent self-discovery. More detailed understanding and follow-up activities are available through other resources based on the same piece - please search the title of the track to find these.
Official classification: Interactive Activities, Spain, Dulzaina, Curriculum support, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Tags: military, ostinato, monodic, reed, folk, triplets, drum roll
This Listen and Respond resource is one of a range of resources relating to track 20 of the Saydisk 'Listen To This, KS3' world music recordings. It is suitable for use on first listening. The Active Listening points suggest specific (differentiated) things for pupils to listen out for as the music plays through.
Three further menu items show texts with missing words that users choose from a pop-up list of alternatives. A correct choice is signalled with a green highlight, so it is possible to learn basic background musical information through intelligent self-discovery. More detailed understanding and follow-up activities are available through other resources based on the same piece - please search the title of the track to find these.
Official classification: Soprano/descant, Variations (Divisions), Ground Bass, The Renaissance, Interactive Activities, Italy, United Kingdom, Lute, Curriculum support, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Tags: ground bass, repeating chord sequence, I IV V I, variation, decoration, ornaments, dance, lute
This Listen and Respond resource is one of a range of resources relating to track 18 of the Saydisk 'Listen To This, KS3' world music recordings. It is suitable for use on first listening. The Active Listening points suggest specific (differentiated) things for pupils to listen out for as the music plays through.
Three further menu items show texts with missing words that users choose from a pop-up list of alternatives. A correct choice is signalled with a green highlight, so it is possible to learn basic background musical information through intelligent self-discovery. More detailed understanding and follow-up activities are available through other resources based on the same piece - please search the title of the track to find these.
Official classification: The Middle Ages, Interactive Activities, Shawm, Nakers, Curriculum support, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Tags: ostinato, shawm, nakers, triple time, consort, troubadors, stepwise melody, refrain
This Listen and Respond resource is one of a range of resources relating to track 17 of the Saydisk 'Listen To This, KS3' world music recordings. It is suitable for use on first listening. The Active Listening points suggest specific (differentiated) things for pupils to listen out for as the music plays through.
Three further menu items show texts with missing words that users choose from a pop-up list of alternatives. A correct choice is signalled with a green highlight, so it is possible to learn basic background musical information through intelligent self-discovery. More detailed understanding and follow-up activities are available through other resources based on the same piece - please search the title of the track to find these.
Official classification: Ostinato, Interactive Activities, France, Bombarde, Curriculum support, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Tags: Brittany, Breton, bombarde, ostinato, narrow bore, double reed, melodic leap