Play School: How do people make sounds on musical instruments?

SUBJECTS:  Arts

YEARS:  F–2

Do you like music?

There are lots of different sorts of music and plenty of instruments to play it on.

In this clip, watch and listen as an orchestra of young people perform well-known pieces of music.

See if you can identify any of the instruments being played.

Things to think about

1. 1.Have you ever heard an orchestra play? What sort of instruments do you hear in an orchestra? What sounds do they make?
2. 2.How many instruments can you count in the orchestra? Are all the instruments the same? Are they all different?
3. 3.How many different ways of making sounds can you see in the video? For example, the drummer makes a sound by hitting the drum with a drum stick. How else do people produce sounds?
4. 4.If you were going to put the musicians into groups, how would you do it? For example, you could put the people standing up into one group and the people sitting down in another. How else might you group the musicians?

Date of broadcast: 30 May 2007

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