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This film is a modern retelling of the ancient Sanskrit epic 'Ramayana' as an animated cartoon. In this short trailer the soundtrack contains elements of traditional and more modern Indian musical styles.
KS3 idea: Use this trailer to stimulate discussion of questions such as: What instruments do you hear in the soundtrack for the opening titles (first 10 seconds)? How is the music in the rest of the soundtrack different to the opening 10 seconds? In particular, which sounds would not be heard in more traditional Indian music? Get hold of a recording of the Indonesian 'Ramayana Monkey Chant' and make a comparison of the very different musical styles concerning the same subject matter.
Official classification: South Asia, Film & TV Clips, Video, Key Stage 3, India, Curriculum support, Unit 13. Music and media
Open source clip from Link Media. A traditional Indian Kathak tells a story through dance accompanied by a tabla.
Official classification: Cyclic patterns, Unit 4. Feel the pulse - Exploring pulse and rhythm, South Asia, Dance, World Music, India, Unit 16 Cyclic Patterns, Curriculum support, 4d Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - context, 4d Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - context, Unit 4. Musical cycles
Open source clip from Link Media. Performers of sacred music focus intently whilst singing and playing tabla.
Official classification: South Asia, World Music, India, Curriculum support, 4d Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - context, 4d Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - context
Open source clip from Link Media. Music flows through every facet of life. The Kiran Centre helps differently-abled people to unlock their musical talents and find ways to express and support themselves. The beauty of music helps to empower students even further. Features male singer with harmonium.
Official classification: South Asia, World Music, Male, India, Curriculum support, 4d Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - context, 4d Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - context, Harmonium
Open source clip from Link Media. With video footage and descriptive example of the Santar and Tabla instruments, being played in a recording studio environment.
Official classification: Tabla, Cyclic patterns, Music Technology, South Asia, World Music, India, Unit 16 Cyclic Patterns, Dulcimer, Curriculum support, Unit 4. Musical cycles
Open source clip from Link Media.Example playing of Kartal percussion instruments.
Official classification: Cyclic patterns, South Asia, World Music, India, Unit 16 Cyclic Patterns, Curriculum support
This extraordinary documentary explores with unparalleled intimacy one of the most cherished of Hindu religious aspirations: to die in the city of Varanasi, on the banks of the sacred Ganges.
Producer: Link Media, Inc.
Official classification: Religion, Devotion & Meditation, Video, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Curriculum support, Unit 12. Bhajan/qawwali, Hinduism
Track 11 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to This' for Key Stage 3. Also used as track 18 of Saydisc Percussion Around the World.
Traditional music from Rajasthan, from Saydisc album 'Rajasthani Folk Music', performed by Habib and Ramjan Khan (3'47"). Main features: pentantonic scale, drone, rondo, melodic decoration, improvisation, circular breathing.
This piece of Rajasthani folk music features the use of the dadara santara, a double flute with a drone pipe and the dholak, an Indian drum. The three learning tracks of the Track Explorer focus on instrumentation, the drone and pentatonic melody.
Official classification: Listening, Key Stage 3, Pentatonic Scales, India, South Asia, Dadara Santara, Dholak, Drone, Track Explorer, 4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices, Unit 15. Song, Saydisc Records
Interactive matching activity featuring music from Africa, India and Australia.
Official classification: Unit 1. Ongoing skills, Unit 2. Sounds interesting - Exploring sounds, Geography & Place, Interactive Activities, Africa, India, Australia, Curriculum support, 3a Responding and reviewing - analyse and compare, 3a Responding and reviewing - analyse and compare
Track 19 from Saydisc "Percussion Around the World" - notes from Maureen Hanke.
'Rag Megh' is an example of North Indian music featuring the tabla. Tabla are an asymetrical pair of small tuned hand played drums. The smaller treble drum is placed on the right of the two drums and the bass drum is placed on the left.
Listening to traditional performances of North Indian classical music, the tabla mainly keep time in cycles of steady beats and creates increasing elaborate rhythmic patterns around time.
Three main elements of Indian music can be identified in this piece. The drone ( a repeated sound throughout), the tune and the rhythm. The rhythm is played on the tabla, the only skin instrument in the piece. The tune is based on a rag or group of notes and treated with very strict musical rules to create an improvisation that evokes a particular mood. The first part of the improvised melody is without the tabla. The extract starts just before the tabla join in and fades before the piece is completed.
Official classification: Percussion, Tabla, Timbre, Audio, Key Stage 3, India, Drone, Sitar, Indian, Raga, Unit 4. Musical cycles, Unit 12. Bhajan/qawwali, Saydisc Records
Track 18 from Saydisc "Percussion Around the World" - notes from Maureen Hanke. (Also track 11 from Saydisc Listen to This! KS3.) 'The Shepherds' Music' is from Rajasthan and enables the clear sound of the dholak to be heard against the dadara santara, a type of Indian flute.
The dholak ia a double headed cylindrical drum that tapers slightly at each end. One head is usually slightly larger than the other and made of goatskin whilst the smaller head is calf hide. The tension of the heads is regulated by a system of hoops and rings around the edge of the head from which laces are attached down the outside of the drum shell. Smaller rings then placed around adjacent laces regulate the tension of the head.
Official classification: Percussion, Tabla, Timbre, Audio, Key Stage 3, India, Dadara Santara, Dholak, Rajasthan, Indian, Unit 4. Musical cycles, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Track 12 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 2. Wedding song from Rajasthan from Saydisc album 'Rajasthani Folk Music' (2'20")
Main features: instrumentation, structure. This folk song from Rajasthan features a sarangi and dholak. The learning tracks of the Track Explorer focus on structure, instrumental sections, dholak and drone.
Official classification: Listening, Example Voices, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, India, Dholak, Drone, Unit 19 Songwriter, Rajasthan, Indian, Sharangi, Track Explorer, 4a Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - aural memory, 4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices, Unit 15. Song, Saydisc Records
Extract from the illustrated Rudiments of Wisdom encyclopaedia by Tim Hunkin. www.rudimentsofwisdom.com.
Thousands of cartoons covering almost everything there is to know!
Official classification: India, Non-western tonalities, Curriculum support, Rudiments of Wisdom
Extract from the illustrated Rudiments of Wisdom encyclopaedia by Tim Hunkin. www.rudimentsofwisdom.com.
Thousands of cartoons covering almost everything there is to know!
Official classification: India, Curriculum support, Rudiments of Wisdom
Track 20 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Religions of the World' (1'33") Temple bells and drums at the Kali Temple, Varanasi. This call to prayer from a Hindu temple features bells and drums. The Track Explorer has two learning tracks focusing on instrumentation and voices.
Official classification: Other Untuned Percussion, Listening, Religion, Devotion & Meditation, Interactive Activities, India, Track Explorer, Unit 12. Bhajan/qawwali, Hinduism, Bell, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Track 1 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Religions of the World' (1'24") Call to worship at the Mula Gadha Kut Buddhist Temple, Sarnath. This piece features a bell and the chanting of monks. The learning track of the Track Explorer focuses on the sound of the bell.
Official classification: Example Instruments, Religion, Devotion & Meditation, Interactive Activities, Pentatonic Scales, China, India, Di-zi, Track Explorer, Buddhism, Guanzi, Sheng, Gu, Chazi, Bell, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
This list sequencer app will help users to plan, compose and perform their own version of Shepherds' Music. Based on track 11 of Saydisc Listen to This! KS3 - traditional music from Rajasthan.
Pupils work in threes: drone player, hand drummer and 'pentatonic' melody using D E F# A (+ optional B). The app offers four textural combinations of these parts, which can be developed either as a performance plan, or as a backing to support performance / improvisation if not all parts are represented in the working group.
Official classification: Composing, Arranging, Melody, Sequencers, Interactive Activities, Pentatonic Scales, India, Drone, Indian, List Sequencer, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Example of Bhajan (Indian devotional song) from North India, sung by solo male voice.
Official classification: Tabla, Focus:Bhajan/Qawwali, Religion, Devotion & Meditation, Audio, Male, India, Sitar, Indian, Curriculum support, Unit 12. Bhajan/qawwali, Harmonium
Alam Khan, son of the great Ali Akbar Khan, talks about and plays the Sarod.
Footage from
www.travelswithmusic.org
Official classification: Video, India, Curriculum support, Performance video clip, Travels with Music, Sarod
A very funny take on "Duelling Banjos' - using an electric guitar and a sitar-like instrument called a 'sarod' this is guaranteed to make you smile. Bill Bailey is a genius.
Official classification: Electric Guitar, Video, Banjo, India, Curriculum support, Sarod
Displaying 1 to 20 of 20 resources labelled with 'India'