Plucked Strings
Track 1 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 3.
Music from South America, from Saydisc album 'Music of the Andes', performed by Caliche (3'01")
Main features: ostinato, changes in tempo and metre.
This track from the Andes, features three South American Instruments. These are the quena, a type of flute, the charango, a small lute, and the bombo, meaning 'drum'. The Track Explorer has five learning tracks focusing on instrumentation, structure, the repeating rhythm ostinato on the bomb, phrasing of the quena and chords.
Official classification: Listening, Ostinato, South America, Key Stage 3, Latin America, Quena, Bombo, Charango, Track Explorer, 4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Track 2 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 2. Chinese music for solo pi-pa from Saydisc album 'Like Waves against the Sand' (2'27")
Main features: pitch, tempo, structure.
This traditional Chinese piece is played by a pi-pa (a Chinese lute). The Track Explorer has three tracks focusing on instrumentation, descriptions of the different sections of the music and structure.
Official classification: Listening, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 2, Pentatonic Scales, China, Far East, Unit 12 Dragon Scales , Programme Music, Pi-pa, Track Explorer, 4a Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - aural memory, 4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Image. For an example, listen to Track 22 The Drunken Sailor (celtic harp and bodhran) from saydisc material
Official classification: Image, Celtic Harp, Curriculum support, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Picture of rebabs, part of the middle eastern lute family such as the Oud.
Official classification: Asia, Image, Africa, Curriculum support, Rebab
Picutre of traditional japanese stringed instrument. For an example, listen to Track 4 Aki No Shirabe (Autumn Tune)
Official classification: Image, Koto, Curriculum support
Picture of this stringed instrument, often seen as the predecessor of the western lute. Heard usually in middle eastern music such as Track 12 Sama'i Thaqil from the Saydisc material
Official classification: Image, Ud, Curriculum support, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Image of South American lute, for example listen to Track 1 Amanecer Andino , 03 Llorando Se Fue - She left crying or 02 Amanecer Andino - Andean dawn from saydisc material
Official classification: Image, Charango, Curriculum support, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Track 3 from Saydisc "Percussion Around the World" - notes from Maureen Hanke.
'Llorando se Fue' is an example of traditional Andean music. In this piece the Bolivian pipes are accompanied by the shajshas. The shajshas are goats hooves strung together and played by shaking. They are most often used to keep the steady beat in an accompaniment part and are featured throughout this piece. The clearest sound of the shajshas can be first heard in the opening of the music with the guitar.
Official classification: Percussion, Timbre, South America, Audio, Key Stage 3, Latin America, Bombo, Charango, The Andes, Shajshas, Bolivian Pipes, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Track 2 from Saydisc "Percussion Around the World" (Also Track 1 from Saydisc "Listen To This! KS3) - notes from Maureen Hanke.
Amanecer Andino is a piece of Andean traditional music featuring the Bolivian pipes and the bombo drum.The bombo is the double-headed frame drum of Spain and South America.
The music is in two sections. You will hear the bombo and sticks start the piece playing a rhythm pattern that is repeated throughout the first section and can be heard just once to close the piece. A repeated pattern is called an ostinato.
Official classification: Percussion, Timbre, Ostinato, Audio, Key Stage 3, Latin America, Quena, Bombo, Charango, The Andes, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
The 'now and next' functions in the Live Sequencer tool allow students to create their own arrangement of the koto melody from Saydisc Listen To This KS3, track 4 Aki No Shirabe (Autumn Tune). Students also type in their own descriptions of each phrase so they can easily identify each one and demonstrate use of musical language. They can then trigger the phrases live to play in any chosen order. Perhaps this could be used to provide music for a dance or similar performance.
Official classification: Composing, Arranging, Improvising, Changes in Volume, Silence, Phrasing, Melody, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Pentatonic Scales, Japan, Koto, Curriculum support, Live Sequencer, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
This Listen and Respond resource is one of a range of resources relating to track 22 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.
Official classification: Interactive Activities, Ireland, Celtic Harp, Bodhran, Curriculum support, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Tags: celtic harp, bodhran, 6/8 time, chords Gm and F, minor mode
This is a video of a modern Greek Bouzouki player. This particular instrument uses an electric pickup like an electric guitar.
Keywords: Greek, Greece, bazouki, folk.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv6Pl31p5nE
Official classification: Video, Greece, Curriculum support, Bouzouki
A video demonstrating a solo on a Greek bouzouki. The bouzouki is member of the 'long neck lute' family and is similar to a mandolin. The instrument is usually played with a plectrum and has sharp metallic sound. It is very popular in modern Greek music.
Greek, Greece, bouzouki, folk, mandolin, lute
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWFrEl_vNdI
Official classification: Video, Lute, Greece, Curriculum support, Bouzouki, Mandolin
This fascinating video clip shows a performance from surviving fragments of ancient Greek music. The music is performed on copies of original instruments. The string instrument is a 7 string lyre(kithara).
Keywords: improvisation, kithara, voice, ancient Greece, folk, Greek
www.youtube.com/watch?v=piYpvpBgwRs
Official classification: Video, Voice, Greece, Curriculum support, Kithera
This shows a Japanese Shamisen orchestra. The shamisen is a 3 stringed instrument.
Keywords:
Shamisen, Japan, Japanese, folk, world music, plucked strings
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFanfx0g3sA
Official classification: Video, Japan, Curriculum support, Japanese, Shamisen
A Japanese man plays a koto, a plucked 13 string instrument with moveable bridges.
Keywords:
Koto, plucked strings, Japan, Japanese, folk, world music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml2IULGmlj8
Official classification: Video, Japan, Koto, Curriculum support, Japanese
Image and audio music example of the cithara (kithára) which is wooden type of the Greek lyre.
Official classification: World Music Examples, Audio, Greece, Ancient Greece, Curriculum support, Kithera
Experience what it's like being inside a music shop in Fez, Morocco while musicians play around you and an Oud is made.
www.travelswithmusic.org
Official classification: Video, Morroco, Curriculum support, Travels with Music, Oud
Alam Khan, son of the great Ali Akbar Khan, talks about and plays the Sarod.
Footage from
www.travelswithmusic.org
Official classification: Video, India, Curriculum support, Performance video clip, Travels with Music, Sarod
A very funny take on "Duelling Banjos' - using an electric guitar and a sitar-like instrument called a 'sarod' this is guaranteed to make you smile. Bill Bailey is a genius.
Official classification: Electric Guitar, Video, Banjo, India, Curriculum support, Sarod