Time for Music: Week 2 – Years 3 & 4
Woodwind Section
Listen Up!
Body percussion Poem
THERE IS A LISTENING GUIDE AND A GUIDE TO THE WOODWIND SECTION BEFORE YOU LISTEN Listen to ‘The
Birds’ by Respighi
EXPLORE thehands woodwind family of instruments with the BBC I can hear my go clap, clap, clap. And I canhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zhdhyrd hear my feet go stamp, stamp, stamp. And I can hear my legs go slap, slap, slap. or follow Green Beans Music-children’s music channel. But I can’t hear my eyes go blink, blink, blink. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwfj9Xx2LF4
I can hear my knees go knock, knock, knock. And I can hear my tongue go cluck, cluck, cluck. I can hear my fingers go snap, snap, snap. But I can’t hear my head go nod, nod, nod.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YJ55DWCc-s It is an attempt to sound like bird songs of the
Dove, hen, nightingale and cuckoo. Respighi uses the woodwind
section of the
orchestra for the bird imitations to good effect. Respighi conducted the premiere of the work in Brazil in 1928.
Draw a line to match the instrument to its name ☺
bass clarinet
flute
saxaphone clarinet
piccolo bassoon oboe
cor-anglais