Key Stage 1
Animated question: what is the musical term used when you tap your foot to the music?
Official classification: Pulse (Beat), Unit 4. Feel the pulse - Exploring pulse and rhythm, Interactive Activities, Unit 14 Salt Pepper Vinegar Mustard, Curriculum support
Animated explanation of the musical concept of "beat".
Official classification: Pulse (Beat), Unit 4. Feel the pulse - Exploring pulse and rhythm, Interactive Activities, Unit 14 Salt Pepper Vinegar Mustard, Curriculum support
Audio clips of 2 different water based sounds.
Official classification: Understanding Sound, Non-Musical Sounds, Unit 2. Sounds interesting - Exploring sounds, Audio, Interactive Activities, Curriculum support
Audio clips of the acoustic sounds made by 4 different everyday items.
Official classification: Understanding Sound, Non-Musical Sounds, Unit 2. Sounds interesting - Exploring sounds, Similar Sound Collections, Audio, Interactive Activities, Acoustic Sounds, Curriculum support
Audio clips of the sounds made by 9 different everyday actions and items.
Official classification: Understanding Sound, Non-Musical Sounds, Unit 2. Sounds interesting - Exploring sounds, Similar Sound Collections, Audio, Interactive Activities, Action Sounds, Curriculum support
Audio clip examples of sounds with a beat
Official classification: Understanding Sound, Non-Musical Sounds, Pulse (Beat), Unit 2. Sounds interesting - Exploring sounds, Unit 4. Feel the pulse - Exploring pulse and rhythm, Audio, Interactive Activities, Curriculum support
Audio clips that illustrate different changes in pitch.
Official classification: Understanding Sound, Non-Musical Sounds, Pitch, High, low and changing, Unit 5. Taking off - Exploring pitch, Audio, Interactive Activities, High and Low Sounds, Curriculum support
Examples of sounds that change speed or tempo.
Official classification: Understanding Sound, Non-Musical Sounds, Tempo, Unit 7. Rain, rain, go away - Exploring timbre, tempo and dynamics, Audio, Interactive Activities, Curriculum support
Audio clips, human impersonations of 7 different farmyard animal sounds.
Official classification: Understanding Sound, Non-Musical Sounds, Animal Sounds, Voices, Unit 2. Sounds interesting - Exploring sounds, Audio, Interactive Activities, Unit 9 Animal Magic, Curriculum support
Audio clips of three different types of air sound.
Official classification: Understanding Sound, Non-Musical Sounds, Unit 2. Sounds interesting - Exploring sounds, Similar Sound Collections, Audio, Interactive Activities, Sounds of Air and Liquid, Curriculum support
A fun rhythmic chant to be performed with actions, highlighting high-, medium and
low-pitched voices.
Official classification: Singing, Animals, Unit 1. Ongoing skills, Unit 5. Taking off - Exploring pitch, Teaching Songs, Wider opps, Resource Packs, Unit 9 Animal Magic, Unit 19 Songwriter, Curriculum support, Mammals
Recorder Foundation
Official classification: Recorder Family, Soprano/descant, Dynamics, Unit 2. Sounds interesting - Exploring sounds, Pieces, Resource Packs
Tags: composition, English, listening
Orchestral piece by Czech composer from the Romantic era.
KS1 idea: Good for listening to use of long and short sounds (particularly short sounds in the main section).
Official classification: Unit 3. The long and the short of it - Exploring duration, Classical Pieces, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Curriculum support
Interactive action song. Full version.
Official classification: Singing, Unit 1. Ongoing skills, Key Stage 1, Curriculum support, 1a Controlling sounds - singing
Interactive action song, backing track and words for class to sing along.
Official classification: Singing, Unit 1. Ongoing skills, Key Stage 1, Curriculum support, 1a Controlling sounds - singing
Interactive sound matching activity featuring a lion, a tiger and a domestic cat.
Official classification: Animal Sounds, Unit 1. Ongoing skills, Unit 2. Sounds interesting - Exploring sounds, Interactive Activities, Curriculum support, 3a Responding and reviewing - analyse and compare
Interactive sound matching activity featuring an aeroplane, a helicopter and a space shuttle.
Official classification: Non-Musical Sounds, Space, Unit 1. Ongoing skills, Unit 2. Sounds interesting - Exploring sounds, Similar Sound Collections, Interactive Activities, Unit 18 Journey Into Space, Curriculum support, 3a Responding and reviewing - analyse and compare, 3a Responding and reviewing - analyse and compare
Interactive sound matching activity; violin, viola and cello.
Official classification: Cello, Viola, Violin, Unit 1. Ongoing skills, Unit 2. Sounds interesting - Exploring sounds, Interactive Activities, 3a Responding and reviewing - analyse and compare, 3a Responding and reviewing - analyse and compare
Interactive matching activity, featuring french horn, trumpet and trombone.
Official classification: Brass, Trombone (treble clef), Trumpet, Unit 1. Ongoing skills, Unit 2. Sounds interesting - Exploring sounds, Interactive Activities, 3a Responding and reviewing - analyse and compare, 3a Responding and reviewing - analyse and compare, French Horn
Second movement of Britten's Simple Symphony. The piece is played entirely pizzicato by strings.
KS1 idea - an ideal track for listening and/or to accompany movement, particularly in context of QCA Unit 7 'rain, rain, go away' as the pizz strings paint a vivid rainy scene.
Official classification: Unit 7. Rain, rain, go away - Exploring timbre, tempo and dynamics, 1900-1949, Classical Pieces, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Classical, Weather, United Kingdom, Curriculum support, Britten, Benjamin