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?

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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:

Wymondham Abbey

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Religious Buildings
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Wymondham Priory - it was raised to the status of an Abbey a mere ninety years before its suppression - was founded in 1107 as a community of Benedictine monks. The founder was William D'Aubigny, sometimes referred to as d'Albini, Chief Butler to King Henry I whose widow, Alice of Louvrain, was later to marry William's son.

The building was on an ambitious scale. Stone was shipped across the English Channel from Caen, in Normandy, and the original Nave - a scaled-down version of the Nave of Norwich Cathedral - was twelve bays long.

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Fenton House and Garden

Handsome 17th-century merchant's house with walled garden
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Historic Buildings & Monuments
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This beautiful 17th-century merchant's house is a hidden gem in London, a place of unique charm and ambience.

Lady Binning bought the house in 1936 and filled it with her highly decorative collections of porcelain, Georgian furniture and 17th-century needlework.

The sound of early keyboard instruments and the colours of early 20th-century drawings and paintings add to a captivating experience.

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2-Tone Coventry Music Museum

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Museums
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Home of the exciting museum and exhibition dedicated to the 2 Tone record label and its bands The Specials, The Selecter, Madness,The Beat et al.

Coventry famously gave 2-Tone music to the world. Spawning bands like The Specials, The Selecter, Madness and The Beat. 2-Tone music, as influential as it was, is only a small reflection of the vast musical talents that Coventry can lay claim to.

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Poltimore House

Help us bring this special Grace II listed building back to life
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Historic Buildings & Monuments
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Poltimore House is a significant Devon landmark, historically and architecturally. The drawing shows it as it was c.1900. The speculative reconstructions at the bottom of this page show it as it might be, once restored and back to full use. 

We are determined to raise the funds to repair this great building, to restore it to the community, and to a future as a new kind of landmark.

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Brangwyn Hall at the Guildhall Swansea

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Theatres, Music and Performing Arts Venues
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The Brangwyn Hall at the Guildhall, Swansea is renowned as a major concert hall and conference centre,

The Guildhall was opened on 23 October 1934, and was originally conceived as the answer to an acute accommodation problem in the former Guildhall at Somerset Place (now the Dylan Thomas Centre). It was erected in a decade of biting recession and high local unemployment, so the construction of the building helped to alleviate local hardships. Had it not been for the availability of unemployment relief schemes, the Guildhall may never have been built.

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English Touring Opera

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Theatres, Music and Performing Arts Venues
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English Touring Opera (ETO) is an opera company founded in 1979 under the name Opera 80. In 1992 the company changed to its present name. The company aims to bring high quality opera to areas of England that would not otherwise have ready access to such productions. Since 2002, its General Director (and acclaimed stage director of several productions) has been James Conway, who came from the Opera Theatre of Ireland. Its Music Director, also since 2002, is Michael Rosewell.

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Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC)

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Theatres, Music and Performing Arts Venues
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Working with teachers to inspire a life-long love of Shakespeare in young people.

The Royal Shakespeare Company is one of the greatest theatre companies in the world. Based in Stratford-upon-Avon, but with shows running around the world, not only are we keeping William Shakespeare's works alive and very relevant to the modern world through its own performances, but our Education Department also works tirelessly to engage with students of all ages on a wide range of projects.

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Ricoh Arena

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Sports Stadia
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With its state-of-the-art conference, banqueting, exhibition and sports facilities, the multi-purpose Ricoh Arena complex has won awards for its design and functionality. It is a venue that has acted as a catalyst for regeneration in the north of Coventry and forms an important part of the city council's bigger plan to rejuvenate the entire area.

It is the home of Coventry City Football Club and Wasps Rugby Union Club.

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Kingswood Peak Venture

Situated in nine acres of parkland on the doorstep of the beautiful Peak District, this centre includes superb watersports facilities
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Outdoor Activity
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With the beautiful Peak District on its doorstep, this friendly and inclusive centre provides the ideal destination for younger students to experience the great outdoors within a secure environment

Watersports centre on the Scout Dike reservoir, adjacent to the centre, offering exciting activities including canoeing and raft building

Ideal setting for young people to experience the wonders of the countryside

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Study@BWFC

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Indoor Activity Centres
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Come and study at Bolton Wanderers!

Activities are varied and include a choice of: digital media and design, robot building, music creation, computer game design and animation, to name just a few! There is an emphasis on team-building and leadership skills development too.

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