Track 16 from Charanga/ Saydisc / Christine Richards orject - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 3. Traditional Turkish tune from Amon Ra album 'Oboe Collection' performed by Robin Canter (2'13")

Main features: traditional European instruments of the oboe family, ostinato, circular breathing, pirouette, duple time.

This piece is played on a Turkish reed instrument, the zurna, with an accompanying drum. The Track Explorer has three learning tracks focusing on instrumentation, structure and drum rhythms.

This Listen and Respond resource is one of a range of resources relating to track 16 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.