The
Listening
Room Listen. Notice. Connect.

Learning Arcade · Key Stage 2 music

The Listening Room

Listen. Notice. Connect. Explore music from across time, place and tradition, then use precise musical language to say what you hear.

Explore Year 3 Explore Year 4 Explore Year 5 Explore Year 6 Music through time

Choose a way in

Start with the year-group curriculum or move across musical history and parallel sound worlds. Every route leads to the same focused listening routine.

01

Year 3

Notice, name and show clear musical features.

 02

Year 4

Follow simple changes and repeated musical ideas.

 03

Year 5

Identify and describe clear musical features.

 04

Year 6

Compare, track change and explain musical effects.

 05

Through time

Connect chronology with living traditions and genres.

Start listening

Eight starting points from a collection of 48 pieces.

Y3 · Romantic orchestral

In the Hall of the Mountain King

Edvard Grieg 1875 · Norway Y5 · Art pop

Play Dead

Björk 1993 · Iceland Y3 · Vocal swing jazz

A-Tisket, A-Tasket

Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb and His Orchestra 1938 · United States Y5 · Trinidadian steel band

Tropical Bird

Trinidad Steel Band Living tradition · Trinidad and Tobago Y4 · Classical chamber music

Minuet

Luigi Boccherini 1771 · Italy / Spain Y6 · Art pop

Wild Man

Kate Bush 2011 · England Y4 · Electric blues

Every Day I Have the Blues

B. B. King 1955 · United States Y6 · Argentine tango nuevo

Libertango

Astor Piazzolla 1974 · Argentina