Track 23 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 2. Dance music from the time of Queen Elizabeth 1, from Saydisc album 'Music from the time of the Spanish Armada (1'17") Main features: instrumentation, structure, drone.

This lively dance from the Tudor period features the Northumbrian bagpipes and soprano shawm. The learning tracks of the Track Explorer focus on instrumentation, structure, drone on bagpipes and percussion sections.

Track 35 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 1. Jewish song from the Sephardi tradition, from Saydisc album 'Raisins and Almonds' (2'32") Main features: early instruments, structure, lyrics, drone. This Sephardic folk song is sung in Ladino by a female singer. It features traditional instruments such as the shawm (a wind instrument) lauto (a string instrument) and rebec (a type of lute). The Track Explorer has four learning tracks focusing on instrumentation, structure, lyrics and translation of the lyrics.

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.