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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
First of 21 lively dance tunes, mostly based on Hungarian themes by German Romantic composer and pianist Johannes Brahms.
KS1 idea: Listen as example of fast tempo piece with a steady beat.
Official classification: Tempo, The Romantic Period, Classical Pieces, Audio, Brahms, Johannes, Austria, Germany, Curriculum support
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Number 1 of 8 Slavonic dances by Czech Romantic composer Antonin Dvorak.
KS2 idea for listening, 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.
Official classification: Changes in Volume, Tempo, The Romantic Period, Classical Pieces, Audio, Dvorak, Antonan Leopold, Long and Short Sounds, Curriculum support
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
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