Year 7

Traditional Music of Africa, Caribbean and the British Isles

Key information to help your learning in Term 1 & Term 2

Improve your keyboard playing...

• Learn your piece in small sections (eg. lines 1 then line 2)

• Use the right hand for melody

• Use the left hand for chords

• Try to use more than 1 finger

• Get your partner to give you feedback to help you improve

The Elements of Music

Musical Symbols & Note Values

Online piano...click below

http://virtualpiano.net/

Alphabet of Instruments

Links to listen to BBC Ten pieces

• Carmen by Bizet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ_HHRJf0xg

• Mambo from West Side Story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCXLi8pcIvg

• The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLhpkvQLDt0

• Trumpet Concerto by Haydn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3nHgW5Pwag

• Toccata and Fugue by Bach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0nRPDfpbkY

• Ride of the Valkyries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P73Z6291Pt8

• Dies Irae by Verdi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO1pn6D-t4M

• Night Ferry by Anna Clyne: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNf0qloRcls

• Shostakovich Symphony No.10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKXQzs6Y5BY

• Concerto for Turntables & Orchestra by Gabriel Prokofiev: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38atRejUORM