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.

Track 15 from Saydisc "Percussion Around the World" - notes from Maureen Hanke.

'Jameko' is a piece of music from England. It features a tabor, a type of drum which was traditionally played with the pipe. It had a snare and could be shallow, deep or very deep in size. In this piece a shallow tabor is played by a stick held in the right hand. Its main use was for dance music although it also provided a very economical one man band.

(In a music session the whole group could be asked to tap the rhythm of the tabor quietly. Give one person a tambour. Using an untuned instrument the teacher taps a short rhythm pattern - a sort of musical question - and asks the tambour player to give an answer without stopping. The tambour is then passed on to the next person. The teacher repeats the rhythm question for the next tambour player who plays an answer and passes the tambour on. Meanwhile the whole group must continue to tap the steady rhythm.

Listen to 'Jameko' again. Throughout the piece the tabor keeps a steady beat behind a series of musical questions and answers. Try to work out the structure by listening to the questions and answers. Are some questions and answers repeated? )

This Listen and Respond resource is one of a range of resources relating to track 23 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.