Suggested Listening

Exploring emotions/mood

Overture to the Marriage Of Figaro – Mozart

Flight of the Bumble Bee – Rimsky-Korsakov

Pavane – Fauré

Baby Mine from ‘Dumbo’

O Fortuna from‘Carmina Burana’ – Orff

Night on Bald Mountain – Mussorgsky

Music from Scotland and around the world 

Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
• Struy by Blazin’ Fiddles

China 🇨🇳
• Horse Race by Jiang Jianhua

Australia 🇦🇺
• Didgeridoo by The AborigineeTribe 

Poland 🇵🇱
• PlynieWisla, Plynie by Bob Johnson 

Music Groups

Orchestra
• Carnival of the Animals – Saint-Saëns
• Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra – Britten

Choir

Scottish Pipe Band
• Scotland the Brave (traditional tune)

Jazz Band
•Take Five – Dave Brubeck

Printable Resources

Flashcards can be used as visuals to support learners when listening and responding to music.

  • Labelled instrument picture cards, including instruments from a range of styles and cultures
  • Families of the orchestra posters
  • Concept flashcards fast/slow, loud/quiet, high/low, crescendo/diminuendo
  • Emotion flashcards
  • Question cards First Level
  • Listening dice
  • Listening mat

Instruments

Untuned percussion (unable to produce a specific pitch)

  • Claves
  • Maracas or egg shakers
  • Tambour (hand drum)
  • Lollipop drum & beater
  • Tambourine
  • Wood block or agogo block
  • Guiro
  • Bells
  • Triangles & beaters (different sizes)


Tuned percussion (able to produce a specific pitch)

  • Chime bar set & beaters
  • Xylophone & beaters
  • Glockenspiel & beaters
  • Boomwhackers

Other

  • Art materials for drawing/painting/modelling in response to music
  • Scarves / ribbons for movement in response to music

Digital Technology

  • Speaker
  • iPad
  • Headphones