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
Y5 · Medieval sacred chant
O Euchari
Hildegard of Bingen
Y5 · Western classical
Rondo alla Turca
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Y5 · Western classical
Symphony No. 5, first movement
Ludwig van Beethoven
Y5 · Baroque oratorio
Hallelujah from Messiah
George Frideric Handel
Y5 · Indian classical
Sahela Re
Kishori Amonkar
Y5 · 20th-century choral
This Little Babe from A Ceremony of Carols
Benjamin Britten
Y5 · Romantic orchestral
Night on a Bare Mountain
Modest Mussorgsky
Y5 · 20th-century orchestral
Bolero
Maurice Ravel
Y5 · Art pop
Play Dead
Björk
Y5 · Big-band jazz
Take the ‘A’ Train
Billy Strayhorn / Duke Ellington Orchestra
Y5 · Pop / rock
With a Little Help from My Friends
The Beatles
Y5 · Contemporary orchestral
Night Ferry
Anna Clyne
Y5 · 20th-century orchestral
Symphonic Variations on an African Air
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Y5 · Disco / funk
Le Freak
Chic
Y5 · Trinidadian steel band
Tropical Bird
Trinidad Steel Band
Y5 · Brazilian samba-influenced pop
Fanfarra (Cabua-Le-Le)
Sérgio Mendes / Carlinhos Brown
Y5 · Rock and roll
Hound Dog
Elvis Presley
Y5 · South African isicathamiya