Music

Music

All Music courses include studying types, styles and epoques of music-making. They involve listening and playing. Both primary and secondary schools arrange visits to concerts of all types, run workshops and often have visiting groups or individuals in the school. These can range from playing percussion instruments such as tambourines or marimbas with Early Years and Key Stage 1 students through to having students in their final years at school reaching Grade 5 (GCSE) standard in performance or above.

Many enhance these experiences with opportunities to make music with other schools or with professionals, both at the school and away in other locations. There has been a rapid growth in multicultural music-making at both primary and secondary levels. In particular, the opportunities to learn new and unfamiliar instruments are legion.

Some schools travel abroad and either play to foreign audiences or work with foreign groups, making music together. Over the years many school groups have also put on their plays and musicals at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Most school music workshops are carried out in school but some away-day experiences are on offer where schools work together guided by professionals, such as at the Royal Opera House.

 

Main organisations:

Royal College of Music

Music Education Council

Making Music

Music Mark

Arts Council

DfE Project - The Importance of Music

National Foundation for Educational Research

Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Inclusion: NASEN

 

Thought of visiting?

Ticketmaster.com

TravelBound

Rayburn Tours

Halsbury

Club Europe

NST Group

Gower Tours

Barbican Music Hall

Birmingham Symphony Hall

 

For a complete list of venues and providers who deliver specialist courses and activities for this subject see below:

Waterfront Hall

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Arenas and Exhibition Centres
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We are an award-winning, purpose-built conference, arts and entertainment centre offering a variety of facilities including:

  • Main Auditorium
  • Studio
  • 14 meeting rooms
  • gallery space
  • gift shop
  • restaurant
  • two bars.

As well as hosting events, we serve local residents and provide community groups with access to our world-class facilities.

We now employ 50 full-time employees and more than 100 casual members of staff.

To date, we have:

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St David's Cathedral

A centre of learning offering education in a number of different ways
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Religious Buildings
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We have an Education and Pilgrimage centre, Ty'r Pererin, which was officially opened on 4 March 2013. Click here for more information about the new centre.

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Coleton Fishacre

A 1920s country retreat complete with luxuriant garden by the sea
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Historic Buildings & Monuments
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Travel back in time to the Jazz Age at the holiday home of the D'Oyly Carte family.

You can lose yourself in the magical 12-hectare (30-acre) garden: viewpoints give enticing glimpses out to sea, paths weave through glades past tranquil ponds, and tender plants from the Mediterranean, South Africa and New Zealand thrive in the moist and sheltered valley.

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Kenwood House and Gardens

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Historic Buildings & Monuments
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The 112 acres of Kenwood is on the crest of one of the most popular open spaces in the capital, Hampstead Heath. In contrast to the natural Heath, the park around Kenwood is very much a designed landscape in an English style.

Set on the edge of Hampstead Heath and surrounded by tranquil landscaped gardens, Kenwood is one of London's hidden gems.

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Strumpshaw Steam Museum

Come and visit us for a yesteryear experience
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Transport
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Home to the renowned Strumpshaw Steam Rally, the museum houses a nostalgic collection of traction engines, steam rollers, tractors and beam engines. 

There’s also a Christie cinema organ and fairground organs and you can take a countryside walk or a trip on the narrow gauge railway to explore the grounds of the old hall.

The Museum was opened at this site in 1954 when the engines were moved here from North Walsham where the engine collection as it was then was previously housed, and it was in this year also that the first engine, a Marshall was purchased.

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Library of Birmingham

Venue Type: 
Libraries / Archives
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The new Library of Birmingham is a stunning building both inside and out. Here you can:

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London County Hall

Venue Type: 
Arenas and Exhibition Centres
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Located on the South Bank, London County Hall is not only one of the city's most iconic landmarks but is also fast becoming a key hub for entertainment, culture, the creative industries, education and sustainability in the capital. 

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Notre Dame Cathedral

Venue Type: 
Religious Buildings
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Notre-Dame de Paris, also known as Notre-Dame Cathedral or simply Notre-Dame, is a historic Catholic cathedral on the eastern half of the Île de la Cité in the fourth arrondissement of Paris, France.

As the seat of the Archbishop of Paris, Notre Dame is the spiritual heart of Paris and one of the most visited venues in the country. Its beauty and splendour are world-renowned and attract millions of visitors each year.

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Salisbury Cathedral

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Religious Buildings
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Discover over 750 years of history, including Britain's tallest spire, the world's best preserved original Magna Carta (1215) and Europe's oldest working clock, on a tour with one of our volunteer guides. Built between 1220 and 1258, in one architectural style, Salisbury is Britain's finest 13th century Gothic Cathedral.

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Wordsworth's House

Step back to the 1770s at poet William Wordsworth’s childhood home
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Historic Buildings & Monuments
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Wordsworth House and Garden, in the Cumbrian town of Cockermouth, is the birthplace and childhood home of romantic poet William and his sister Dorothy.

It is presented as it would have been when they lived here with their parents, three brothers and servants in the 1770s.

Today, this homely Georgian townhouse is peopled by our knowledgeable 21st-century guides and, on selected dates, the maid or manservant is hard at work – and keen to chat.

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