The Renaissance
Displaying 1 to 8 of 8 resources labelled with 'The Renaissance'
Music animation machine - Contrapuntal keyboard music by William Byrd, performed by Stephen Malinowski, with video of hands playing and scrolling bar-graph score.
Official classification: Pitch, The Renaissance, Classical Pieces, Video, Curriculum support, Byrd, William
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.
Official classification: Soprano/descant, Listening, Variations (Divisions), Ground Bass, The Renaissance, Key Stage 3, Lute, Italy, United Kingdom, Track Explorer, 4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices, Saydisc Records
Track 23 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 3. A selection of music played on a variety of popular Elizabethan instruments from Saydisc album 'Music from the Time of the Spanish Armada', performed by the York Waits (4'22")
Main features: Tudor music, early instruments.
These five dances from the sixteenth century are played on various early instruments including the pipe, tabor, shawms, Flemish bagpipe and sopranino recorder. The learning tracks of the Track Explorer focus on instrumentation.
Official classification: Listening, Example Instruments, Tudor England, The Renaissance, Dance, Key Stage 3, Shawm, Tabor, Pipe, Sopranino Recorder, Flemish Bagpipes, Track Explorer, 4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices, Saydisc Records
Image of these early brass predecessors to the modern trombone. For an example, listen to Track 13 L'Hom Armé
Official classification: Tudor England, The Renaissance, The Baroque Era, Image, Sackbut, Curriculum support
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.
Official classification: Listening, Tudor England, The Renaissance, Interactive Activities, Shawm, Drone, England, English Bagpipes, Hurdy-gurdy, Track Explorer, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Track 10 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Religions of the World' (1'19") Music from the 'Golden Age' of English church music. This is an example of Tudor polyphony. The Track Explorer has one learning track focusing on the four parts.
Official classification: Listening, Part-singing, Tudor England, The Renaissance, Religion, Devotion & Meditation, Interactive Activities, Female, Male, Track Explorer, Christianity, Byrd, William, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Sacred music from Mass written around 1562 by Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. This is an often-performed mass and was always sung at the Papal Coronation Mass (the last being the coronation of Paul VI in 1963).
KS1/2 ideas: this Gloria is sung by a male voice choir, so a good example of male voice for KS1. Listening at KS2 may focus on the unaccompanied, four part harmony singing.
Official classification: Part-singing, The Renaissance, Religion, Devotion & Meditation, Classical Pieces, Audio, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Child, Male, Curriculum support, Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da
Rumoured to have been written by Henry VIII, this is a typical Tudor song featuring a rhythmic ostinato on tambourine with melody and accompaniment on recorders. The song is played three times on this recording, first instrumental, then sung by solo male voice and finally with a group of singers in harmony.
Official classification: Tambourine, Recorder Family, Ostinato, Tudor England, The Renaissance, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Female, Male, Curriculum support
Displaying 1 to 8 of 8 resources labelled with 'The Renaissance'