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:

Komedia (Bath)

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Theatres, Music and Performing Arts Venues
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Leading arts and entertainment organisation Komedia opened its second venue in Bath in November 2008 at the old Beau Nash Cinema, in the heart of the city.

Komedia Bath is the first Komedia-branded venue to launch outside of Brighton, Sussex. Presenting a large and diverse arts and entertainment programme, the unique venue has featured international and national performers, and also played host to a unique range of Komedia-grown resident shows such as the Krater Comedy Club and the Ministry of Burlesque.

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St David's Hall

The National Concert Hall of Wales
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Theatres, Music and Performing Arts Venues
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St David’s Hall is Wales’s largest performing arts venue.

Home to the annual Welsh Proms Cardiff, a world-class Orchestral Concert Series and the biannual BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition St David’s Hall also plays host to jazz, soul, pop, rock, dance, children’s theatre, ballet, musicals and stand-up comedy.

With the most diverse artistic programme in Wales St David’s Hall embraces only the best in live performance with the stunning Christmas Ballets Season being a major highlight each year attracting over 15,000 visitors in just 2 weeks.

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Coughton Court

An imposing Tudor house set in beautiful gardens with a collection of Catholic treasures
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Historic Buildings & Monuments
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Coughton Court has been the home of the Throckmorton family since 1409. It holds a unique place in English history with its close connections to the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

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O2 Arena

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Arenas and Exhibition Centres
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As well as concerts, exhibitions and sporting events the O2 plays host to bowling, you can watch a film, find out how to make a TV programme at the Sky Studios and you can even climb on our famous domed roof to catch the fabulous view across London.

 

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Gunby Hall and Gardens

A homely country house dated 1700 set in Victorian walled gardens at the foot of the Lincolnshire Wolds
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Historic Buildings & Monuments
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‘I could live here!’, is what most people say when visiting Gunby Hall and Gardens. Modest-sized rooms full of character and charm make it easy to imagine you can move in yourself.

With links to Tennyson, Darwin and Vaughan-Williams there is so much to discover about the family home of the Massingberd family.

Explore three floors of the hall full of interesting collection pieces amassed over generations from 1700 until 1963. Chat to our room guides to find out stories about Gunby’s interesting past.

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Hatchlands Park

Georgian mansion filled with historic keyboard instruments set in rolling Repton parkland
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Historic Buildings & Monuments
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Hatchlands Park was built in the 1750s for naval hero Admiral Edward Boscawen and his wife Fanny. They gave architect, Robert Adam, one of his first interior design commissions. His work can be seen throughout the house, particularly in ceilings and fireplaces.

Today the mansion is a family home, containing tenant Alec Cobbe’s collection of paintings and fine furniture. Also on display is the Cobbe Collection, Europe’s largest collection of keyboard instruments associated with famous composers including JC Bach, Chopin, Elgar and Bizet.

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Gloucestershire & Warwickshire Railway

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Transport
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The GWR is a steam and diesel heritage railway in the English Cotswolds. Since 1981, the volunteers have restored over 10 miles of line, together with platforms, buildings, steam and diesel locomotives and rolling stock. In addition to a scheduled service, GWR hosts a number of galas and enthusiast€™ events.

The railway travels from Toddington, across the Cotswolds via Winchcombe to Cheltenham Racecourse. Parking is free at our stations

School Visits

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Activ4

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Outdoor Activity
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Activ4 was established in 2002 and is today run by people with a genuine passion for providing students with the best travel experience possible.  

Activ4 has gained a deserved reputation for delivering tours worldwide offering excellent value.  

Organisers of Sports, Ski and Performing Arts tours certainly welcome the intelligently compiled itineraries, tour introduction packs and also the tremendous level of administrative support.

Fun packed activities: ski, sport, adventure or performing arts trips. 

ABTA & ATOL bonded

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Ulster Hall

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Theatres, Music and Performing Arts Venues
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The Ulster Hall is a Victorian music hall which opened in 1862. It contains the world-famous Mulholland Grand Organ, which was donated to the city by local linen baron and former Lord Mayor Andrew Mulholland. 

In its first 50 years the Hall hosted Charles Dickens, Ellen Terry, Lord Randolph Churchill and many other significant performers. Throughout the Second World War it was extensively used as a dance hall for American troops billeted in Belfast.

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Glyndebourne

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Theatres, Music and Performing Arts Venues
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Glyndebourne is an English country house, the site of an opera house that, since 1934, has been the venue for the annual summer Glyndebourne Festival Opera.

Make an occasion of visiting Glyndebourne and come for the whole afternoon: you can explore the grounds, visit our Archive and Gallery or have a picnic on the lawn. 

The Glyndebourne Gardens and Lake​

Glyndebourne's gardens are a treat for the senses all year round. Discover more about what's going on in the garden and the people who look after it.

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