An extract from the Classical Destinations series (www.classicaldestinations.com) focusing on Italy and Vivaldi and Verdik .

Footage of stage performance from Giacomo Puccini's Opera

Track 20 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 3. Dance from Shakespeare's time, from Saydisc album 'Songs and Dances from Shakespeare', performed by The Broadside Band (1'00")

Main features: ground bass, repeating chord sequence (I, IV, V, I), variations, decoration, ornaments.

This dance features a recorder and lute. The learning tracks of the Track Explorer focus on the ground bass, instrumentation, the sections of the piece and change in time signature.

Second movement of Concerto No. 3 in F major from The Four Seasons, Op. 8, RV 293, "L'autunno" (Autumn)

KS1/2 idea - provide pupils with a large piece of paper divided into four sections and playing Vivaldi's music in the background, ask pupils to paint or draw a picture, depicting the textures they hear. Subsequently, review and discuss how appropriate the music and drawings created are to the seasons and associated weather.

Third movement of Concerto No. 2 from The Four Seasons in G minor, Op. 8, RV 315, "L'estate" (Summer).

KS1/2 idea - provide pupils with a large piece of paper divided into four sections and playing Vivaldi's music in the background, ask pupils to paint or draw a picture, depicting the textures they hear. Subsequently, review and discuss how appropriate the music and drawings created are to the seasons and associated weather.

First movement of Concerto No. 3 in F major from The Four Seasons, Op. 8, RV 293, "L'autunno" (Autumn)

KS1/2 idea - provide pupils with a large piece of paper divided into four sections and playing Vivaldi's music in the background, ask pupils to paint or draw a picture, depicting the textures they hear. Subsequently, review and discuss how appropriate the music and drawings created are to the seasons and associated weather.

Second movement from The Four Seasons Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8, RV 269, "La primavera" (Spring)

KS1/2 idea - provide pupils with a large piece of paper divided into four sections and playing Vivaldi's music in the background, ask pupils to paint or draw a picture, depicting the textures they hear. Subsequently, review and discuss how appropriate the music and drawings created are to the seasons and associated weather.

Second Movement of Concerto No. 4 in F minor from The Four Seasons, Op. 8, RV 297, "L'inverno" (Winter)

KS1/2 idea - provide pupils with a large piece of paper divided into four sections and playing Vivaldi's music in the background, ask pupils to paint or draw a picture, depicting the textures they hear. Subsequently, review and discuss how appropriate the music and drawings created are to the seasons and associated weather.

Mama" is a popular song first written in 1941 by Cesare Andrea Bixio with Italian lyrics, recorded with mixture of italian and english by American pop singer Connie Francis in 1959 for her album Connie Francis Sings Italian Favorites, with her hit single released in February 1960.