Suggested Listening

Exploring emotions/mood

  • Spring from ‘The Four Seasons’ – Vivaldi
  • The Bare Necessities – ‘The Jungle Book’
  • Adagio – Albinoni
  • Adagio for Strings – Barber
  • When She Loved Me from ‘Toy Story’
  • Toccata and Fugue – J.S. Bach
  • The Imperial March – John Williams
  • Mars from ‘The Planets’ – Holst

Music from Scotland

  • Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham – Phil’s Reel
  • Julie Fowlis – Touch the Sky from ‘Brave’
  • Blazin’ Fiddles – Pat the Budgie
Traditional Scots Songs
  • Three Craws
  • Ye Canny Shove Yer Granny
  • Ally Bally (Coulters Candy)

 

Music from around the world

  • Brazil
    Let me take you to Rio from ‘Rio’
  • India
    Ragam Mohama by The Sitars of Bombay
  • Africa
    Grasslands Chant from the Broadway production of ‘The Lion King’

Printable Resources

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

  • Instrument sound cards – shake, tap, ting, boom
  • Labelled instrument picture cards, including instruments from a range of styles and cultures
  • Concept flashcards – fast/slow, loud/quiet, high/low
  • Emotion cards – happy, sad, scared
  • Question cards – Have you heard music like this before? What did you notice? Did you hear voices?
  • Listening dice – The music made me feel…, I liked/didn’t like…, The music made me think of…, I heard…

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
  • Bells
  • Triangles & beaters (different sizes)

Tuned percussion (able to produce a specific pitch)

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

Digital Technology

  • Speaker
  • iPad
  • Headphones