Track 19 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 3. Traditional Japanese music for hichiriki, from Saydisc album 'Oboe Collection', performed by Robin Canter (3'39")

Main features: hichiriki, portamento, free tempo, accelerando drum rolls

This haunting track is performed on the hichiriki (a traditional Japanese instrument) and accompanied by a temple drum and bell. The learning tracks of the Track Explorer focus on the three note recurring pattern of the hichiriki and its sliding portamentos, the drum rolls and single drum notes.

This Listen and Respond resource is one of a range of resources relating to track 19 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.