Early Music
Displaying 1 to 7 of 7 resources labelled with 'Early 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
Tracks 9 and 10 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 3. English sacred music of the late Middle Ages from Amon Ra album 'Worcester Fragments' performed by The Orlando Consort (1'32") (1'37") Main features: early church music, ostinato, drone. These two extracts are sung by unaccompanied male voices. The Track Explorer has four learning tracks focusing on the titles of the extracts, vocal texture, description of texture and the lowest part.
Official classification: Listening, Rounds , The Middle Ages, Religion, Devotion & Meditation, Interactive Activities, Early Music, Polyphony, Unison, Drone, England, Track Explorer, Curriculum support, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Track 18 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 3. Anon. 13th century tune from Amon Ra album 'Oboe Collection' performed by Robin Canter (1'24") Main features: traditional European instruments, ostinato. This is an old European dance played on the treble shawm and nakers. The Track Explorer has three learning tracks focusing on instrumentation, ostinato and the first four phrases of the piece.
Official classification: Ostinato, The Middle Ages, Interactive Activities, Shawm, Nakers, Early Music, Track Explorer, Curriculum support, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Track 15 from Saydisc "Percussion Around the World" - notes from Maureen Hanke.
'Jameko' is a piece of music from England. It features a tabor, a type of drum which was traditionally played with the pipe. It had a snare and could be shallow, deep or very deep in size. In this piece a shallow tabor is played by a stick held in the right hand. Its main use was for dance music although it also provided a very economical one man band.
(In a music session the whole group could be asked to tap the rhythm of the tabor quietly. Give one person a tambour. Using an untuned instrument the teacher taps a short rhythm pattern - a sort of musical question - and asks the tambour player to give an answer without stopping. The tambour is then passed on to the next person. The teacher repeats the rhythm question for the next tambour player who plays an answer and passes the tambour on. Meanwhile the whole group must continue to tap the steady rhythm.
Listen to 'Jameko' again. Throughout the piece the tabor keeps a steady beat behind a series of musical questions and answers. Try to work out the structure by listening to the questions and answers. Are some questions and answers repeated? )
Official classification: Percussion, Timbre, Ostinato, The Baroque Era, Dance, Audio, Key Stage 3, Tabor, Pipe, Early Music, England, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Track 33 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 2. English Country Dance from Saydisc album 'English Country Dances' (1'53")
Main features: instrumentation, structure, drone.
This dance is played on a hurdy-gurdy, flageolet, dulcimer and fiddle. The Track Explorer has two learning tracks focusing on structure and drone.
Official classification: Violin, Listening, Example Instruments, Unit 4. Feel the pulse - Exploring pulse and rhythm, Dance, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Early Music, Drone, England, Dulcimer, Flageolet, Hurdy-gurdy, Track Explorer, 4a Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - aural memory, 4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices, Saydisc Records
Track 16 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 2. Music for medieval harp from Amon Ra album 'Harp Collection (1'10")
Main features: timbre, structure, melody.
This lovely pastoral melody from France is played on a medieval harp. The Track Explorer has two learning tracks focusing on instrumentation and structure.
Official classification: Listening, Ternary(ABA), The Middle Ages, Interactive Activities, France, Phrygian, Early Music, Medieval harp, Track Explorer, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Track 9 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Religions of the World' (1''36") Latin Plainchant sung by the monks of Prinknash Abbey. This is a hymn in plainsong style, dating back to the tenth century. The Track Explorer has two learning tracks focusing on structure and the unaccompanied male voices.
Official classification: Listening, The Middle Ages, Religion, Devotion & Meditation, Interactive Activities, Male, Early Music, Unison, Track Explorer, Unit 12. Bhajan/qawwali, Christianity, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Displaying 1 to 7 of 7 resources labelled with 'Early Music'