Upper Key Stage 2

Year 5

19 listening pieces.
Identify and describe one clear feature at a time using the elements of music.

Listen and respond

Each page begins with uninterrupted listening, followed by five expandable prompts, sentence stems and vocabulary choices.

Y5 · English orchestral & folk

English Folk Song Suite

Ralph Vaughan Williams 1923 · England
Y5 · Medieval sacred chant

O Euchari

Hildegard of Bingen c. 1150 · Germany
Y5 · Western classical

Rondo alla Turca

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1783 · Austria
Y5 · Western classical

Symphony No. 5, first movement

Ludwig van Beethoven 1808 · Germany / Austria
Y5 · Baroque oratorio

Hallelujah from Messiah

George Frideric Handel 1741 · London, England
Y5 · Indian classical

Sahela Re

Kishori Amonkar 20th century · India
Y5 · 20th-century choral

This Little Babe from A Ceremony of Carols

Benjamin Britten 1942 · England
Y5 · Romantic orchestral

Night on a Bare Mountain

Modest Mussorgsky 1867 · Russia
Y5 · 20th-century orchestral

Bolero

Maurice Ravel 1928 · France
Y5 · Art pop

Play Dead

Björk 1993 · Iceland
Y5 · Big-band jazz

Take the ‘A’ Train

Billy Strayhorn / Duke Ellington Orchestra 1939 · United States
Y5 · Pop / rock

With a Little Help from My Friends

The Beatles 1967 · England
Y5 · Contemporary orchestral

Night Ferry

Anna Clyne 2012 · United Kingdom / United States
Y5 · 20th-century orchestral

Symphonic Variations on an African Air

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 1906 · England
Y5 · Disco / funk

Le Freak

Chic 1978 · United States
Y5 · Trinidadian steel band

Tropical Bird

Trinidad Steel Band Living tradition · Trinidad and Tobago
Y5 · Brazilian samba-influenced pop

Fanfarra (Cabua-Le-Le)

Sérgio Mendes / Carlinhos Brown 2006 · Brazil
Y5 · Rock and roll

Hound Dog

Elvis Presley 1956 · United States
Y5 · South African isicathamiya

Inkanyezi Nezazi

Ladysmith Black Mambazo 20th century · South Africa