Tempo
Use the interactive tool in this piece for children to explore how to play instruments with a variety of different sound qualities, including dynamics, timbres and speed.
Official classification: Dynamics, Pitch, Tempo, Interactive Activities, Curriculum support, 1b Controlling sounds - playing, 1c Controlling sounds - performing together, 1b Controlling sounds - playing
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Use the interactive tool in this piece for children to explore how to play instruments with a variety of different sound qualities, including dynamics, timbres and speed.
Official classification: Dynamics, Pitch, Tempo, Interactive Activities, Curriculum support, 1b Controlling sounds - playing, 1c Controlling sounds - performing together, 1b Controlling sounds - playing
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Use the interactive tool in this piece for children to explore how to play instruments with a variety of different sound qualities, including dynamics, timbres and speed.
Official classification: Dynamics, Pitch, Tempo, Interactive Activities, Curriculum support, 1b Controlling sounds - playing, 1c Controlling sounds - performing together, 1b Controlling sounds - playing
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Interactive piece for children to explore how to play instruments with a variety of different sound qualities, including dynamics, timbres and speed.
Official classification: Dynamics, Pitch, Tempo, Interactive Activities, Curriculum support, 1b Controlling sounds - playing, 1c Controlling sounds - performing together, 1b Controlling sounds - playing
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Cadbury's dairy milk advert, accompanied by Queen - Don't Stop Me Now. We hear Queen's 'Don't stop me now' as the soundtrack, while models of airport ground support vehicles race along the runway.
KS2/3 idea: Ask pupils to describe (using musical vocabulary) how the music changes as the race begins. On which beats of the bar does the snare drum play? [Ans: beats 2 and 4 (the backbeats)]
Official classification: Tempo, Advertisements, Video, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Curriculum support, Unit 13. Music and media
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Recognizing tempo and tempo changes and the words used to describe them. Drag the excerpt alongside the description of its tempo.
Other keywords:
listening, presto, accelerando, ritenuto, adagio
Official classification: Tempo, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Curriculum support, 4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices
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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
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Here’s an impressive performance duet. The ‘three threes’ in the title refer to the
3-bar phrases in 3/4 (think of it in 12/8). The three sections (ABA) are played
arco/pizz/arco. Section A – both times it comes – is in clear 3-bar phrases. Section B
has three 3-bar phrases, then an 8-bar phrase to lead in to the recap.
Notes used: G, D, A, E
Key: G major
Learning points: duet in 3/4
rall, a tempo
Official classification: Violin, Tempo, Ternary(ABA), Pieces, 3/4, Wider opps, Resource Packs
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Audio Clip. Recommended as example of piece with a steady beat for KS1 on www.m4t.org. Further detailed teacher notes can be found www.m4t.org/listen%202-7%20Brahms.htm
Official classification: Tempo, The Romantic Period, Classical Pieces, Audio, Brahms, Johannes, Austria, Germany, Curriculum support
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Number 7 of 8 from the orchestral suite to accompany the ballet Appalachian Spring. Suggested as useful example for listening to changes in mode and
tempo in QCA Unit 7 for KS3 'Variations'.
Official classification: Modes, Tempo, 1900-1949, Dance, Classical Pieces, Audio, United States, Curriculum support, Unit 7. Variations, Copland, Aaron
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Number 3 of 8 from the orchestral suite to accompany the ballet Appalachian Spring. Suggested as useful example for listening to changes in mode and
tempo in QCA Unit 7 for KS3 'Variations'.
Official classification: Modes, Tempo, 1900-1949, Dance, Classical Pieces, Audio, United States, Curriculum support, Unit 7. Variations, Copland, Aaron
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Number 1 of 8 from the orchestral suite to accompany the ballet Appalachian Spring. Suggested as useful example for listening to changes in mode and
tempo in QCA Unit 7 for KS3 'Variations'.
Official classification: Modes, Tempo, 1900-1949, Dance, Classical Pieces, Audio, United States, Curriculum support, Unit 7. Variations, Copland, Aaron
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Number 8 of 8 from the orchestral suite to accompany the ballet Appalachian Spring. Suggested as useful example for listening to changes in mode and
tempo in QCA Unit 7 for KS3 'Variations'.
Official classification: Modes, Tempo, 1900-1949, Dance, Classical Pieces, Audio, United States, Curriculum support, Unit 7. Variations, Copland, Aaron
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Number 5 of 8 from the orchestral suite to accompany the ballet Appalachian Spring. Suggested as useful example for listening to changes in mode and
tempo in QCA Unit 7 for KS3 'Variations'.
Official classification: Modes, Tempo, 1900-1949, Dance, Classical Pieces, Audio, United States, Curriculum support, Unit 7. Variations, Copland, Aaron
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Number 6 of 8 from the orchestral suite to accompany the ballet Appalachian Spring. Suggested as useful example for listening to changes in mode and
tempo in QCA Unit 7 for KS3 'Variations'.
Official classification: Modes, Tempo, 1900-1949, Dance, Classical Pieces, Audio, United States, Curriculum support, Unit 7. Variations, Copland, Aaron
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Number 2 of 8 from the orchestral suite to accompany the ballet Appalachian Spring. Suggested as useful example for listening to changes in mode and
tempo in QCA Unit 7 for KS3 'Variations'.
Official classification: Modes, Tempo, 1900-1949, Dance, Classical Pieces, Audio, United States, Curriculum support, Unit 7. Variations, Copland, Aaron
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Number 4 of 8 from the orchestral suite to accompany the ballet Appalachian Spring. Suggested as useful example for listening to changes in mode and
tempo in QCA Unit 7 for KS3 'Variations'.
Official classification: Modes, Tempo, 1900-1949, Dance, Classical Pieces, Audio, United States, Curriculum support, Unit 7. Variations, Copland, Aaron
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Suggested focusses: contrast between initial longer chord and shorter sounds that follow, strong 3 metre and good dynamic contrasts. Brisk tempo influenced by national folk dances. More detailed notes can be found on www.m4t.org/listen%202-9%20Dvorak.htm
Official classification: Changes in Volume, Tempo, The Romantic Period, Classical Pieces, Audio, Dvorak, Antonan Leopold, Long and Short Sounds, Curriculum support
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First of the New World Symphony movements, particularly good example of two contrasting tempos (adagio & allegro) and difference in dynamics and texture between the sections.
Official classification: Changes in Volume, Tempo, Symphony, The Romantic Period, Classical Pieces, Audio, Dvorak, Antonan Leopold, Curriculum support
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Classic rock guitar riff characterizes this track from Sabbath's second studio album Paranoid released in 1970, also features interesting tempo & rhythm shift for guitar solo.
Official classification: Tempo, Song, 1970s, Audio, Rock, Curriculum support, Unit 10. Hooks and riffs
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