Lower Key Stage 2
Year 3
23 listening pieces.
Notice and name a steady beat, fast or slow tempo, high or low sounds, loud or quiet music and familiar instruments.
Listen and respond
Each page begins with uninterrupted listening, followed by five expandable prompts, sentence stems and vocabulary choices.
Y3 · Baroque oratorio
Hallelujah from Messiah
George Frideric Handel
Y3 · Romantic orchestral
Night on a Bare Mountain
Modest Mussorgsky
Y3 · Indian filmi-pop
Jai Ho from Slumdog Millionaire
A. R. Rahman
Y3 · Western classical
Rondo alla Turca
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Y3 · 20th-century orchestral
Mars from The Planets
Gustav Holst
Y3 · 20th-century orchestral
Bolero
Maurice Ravel
Y3 · Contemporary orchestral
Night Ferry
Anna Clyne
Y3 · Soul / funk
I Got You (I Feel Good)
James Brown
Y3 · Disco / funk
Le Freak
Chic
Y3 · Rock and roll
Hound Dog
Elvis Presley
Y3 · Art pop
Wild Man
Kate Bush
Y3 · Blues
Runaway Blues
Ma Rainey
Y3 · Pop / rock
With a Little Help from My Friends
The Beatles
Y3 · Indian classical
Sahela Re
Kishori Amonkar
Y3 · Brazilian samba-influenced pop
Fanfarra (Cabua-Le-Le)
Sérgio Mendes / Carlinhos Brown
Y3 · Balinese gamelan
Baris
Gong Kebyar of Peliatan
Y3 · Romantic orchestral
In the Hall of the Mountain King
Edvard Grieg
Y3 · Medieval instrumental dance
Trotto
Anonymous
Y3 · English Baroque
Rondeau from Abdelazer
Henry Purcell
Y3 · German Baroque
Badinerie
Johann Sebastian Bach
Y3 · Big-band jazz & blues
C Jam Blues
Duke Ellington Orchestra
Y3 · Vocal swing jazz
A-Tisket, A-Tasket
Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb and His Orchestra
Y3 · Samba-reggae / bloco afro