Music

Music
Our work in Music aims to promote pupils appreciation and understanding of music from a variety of different cultures and styles. We have links with the L.S.O (London Symphony Orchestra), as well as visits from other musicians and groups. Classroom work is based on composition, performance, improvisation, music appreciation and rhythm making projects. Music technology is a fast developing area. Children have access to instruments and to ICT in the classroom.

What shall we do with the grumpy teacher? Broyny wrote new words for the song "What shall we do with the drunken sailor?" She then learnt the melody on the piano and recorded it. Check out her version... read more

Pirates Caribean Song Lady-Devine and Prince-Shercar wrote their own words for the song "What shall we do with the drunken sailor?" Check out their version here: read more

Chocolate World We listened to different versions of "A Groovy Kind Of Love" which is based on a classical composition by Muzio Clementi. Amber and Amina wrote new words and with help from Daoud, Daniel, Fabina,... read more

Weird Song Eleanor and Nicholas created a composition using two online music composition programs at a website called Aviary. read more

Autumn Melody Jack created this relaxing composition called "Autumn Melody" on the keyboard. We recorded two versions and joined them together. In the first Jack played piano chords, and on the second he... read more

Don't Look Back in Anger We have been exploring songs with interesting chord progressions. This week we recorded our version of "Don't Look Back in Anger" by Oasis.     read more

I can see clearly now The green group have been studying  Jamaican music. Here's Christina and Mohab singing "I can see clearly now"   read more

History of Jamaican music Shanon made this great Powerpoint presentation showing the history of Jamaican music.   read more

Trouble So Hard The green group have been studying the Blues. Christina, Darren and Jake recorded their version of "Trouble So Hard" read more

Lullaby and bonus tracks Michael (11) has been enjoying learning the guitar. This week he recorded 3 compositions. First a lullaby for 2 guitars, then a live improvisation for 2 guitars and finally he re wrote and sang his... read more

Trouble So Hard In music we have been studying the Blues. Haben, Hong-An Dang, John, Lauren, Lee, Lewis, Ronnie and Zena recorded their version of "Trouble So Hard" read more

Tulips from Amsterdam In music we have been exploring songs with a theme of gardens and plants. Khalid (11) and Siem (13) recorded their own version of "Tulips from Amsterdam" read more

Michael's Blues Michael (11) has written a song in a Blues style about his experience of being stuck in hospital. read more

Octopus's Garden by Noella Noella (11) learnt the words and accompaniment to "Octopus's Garden" by the Beatles. read more

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing This term in music we have been exploring Jazz. Khanh-Ngan, Hong-An Dang, Lily Rose, Ann, Abdul, Leo and Zena worked on "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing"... read more

Winter Song Ahmad (5), Zuhair(7) and Tobi (13) have been reading and enjoying a poem called "Winter Song" by Katherine Mansfield.In our music session they decided to set it to music.  Listen... read more

Autumn Leaves This term in music we have been exploring Jazz. Darren, Jake and Torsten worked on "Autumn Leaves" and here is their version of the A section:   read more

Snow Song Our Comenius partner school in Finland sent us a Christmas song, Joulupuu on Rakennettu. it was tricky for us to sing in Finnish so Neve (5) and King-Elyon (6) wrote some new words and... read more

The Beatles Quiz The Green group have been studying the music of The Beatles and Antonio, Darren, Jake and Torsten created The Beatles Quiz. Give it a try! read more

The twelve days of Christmas Asmaa, Edward, Kalja and Nora re wrote the words to "The twelve days of Christmas". Listen to their version here:   read more

African music with IROKO IROKO theatre company came to our class and got us all singing and dancing to their wonderful African music. Then they taught us to play a drumming song with them. You... read more

Marchetta Georgia (13) created this wonderful improvisation on piano which she named "Marchetta".   read more

Octopus's Garden This term in music we will be exploring the music of The Beatles. Darren, Jake and and Torsten worked on "Octopus's Garden"" and here is their version:   read more

Can't Buy Me Love This term in music we will be exploring the music of The Beatles. Antonio, Darren and Torsten worked on "Can't Buy Me Love"" and here is their version: Â... read more

The wintertime is coming We have been studying the traditional music of the British Isles.Danny and Muna worked on "Will ye go lassie, go?"Danny re wrote the lyrics for a more wintery feel and... read more

The Star of the County Down instrumental We have been studying the traditional music of the British Isles.Anna and Chloe worked on "The Star of the County Down" and here is their version.   read more

The Star of the County Down The Green group have been studying the traditional music of the British Isles.Darren, Frances and Torsten worked on "The Star of the County Down" and here is their version. Â... read more

My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean We have been studying music of the British IslesHere is our version of "My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean" by Antonio, Darren and Frances from the Green Group  read more

Scarborough Fair We have been studying music of the British IslesHere is a version of Scarborough Fair by Katherine and JK     read more

Hallelujah Chloe has been practising her singing. Here is her version of Hallelujah. read more

Daniel's Land's End Soundtrack Daniel created a soundtrack to a short film on Land's End using Magix Music Maker read more

Kai's Land's End Soundtrack Kai created a soundtrack to a short film on Land's End using Magix Music Maker read more

Land's End Soundtrack (CW) Ryan and Samir created soundtracks to a short film on Land's End using Magix Music Maker read more

I wanna be like you The Primary and Secondary pupils recorded their version of "I wanna be like you" from the Jungle Book read more

Green Group Composition The Green Group created this composition using the chords C Em F and G read more

GEC Music Ashley, Chloe and Issac created this composition using the chords G, Em and C, which is what gives it it's name! read more

Composition based on Pachelbel's Canon Vrinda and Vrishni have been exploring Pachelbel's Canon. They played their version on keyboards and chime bars. read more

Yellow Submarine Adedapo, Inas, Muad and Raheem have been exploring the ocean. In music they recorded their version of "Yellow Submarine" by the Beatles. read more

Holiday in the Sun This term we are working on composition in KS3/4 music.Shayna, Vrinda and Vrishni composed this song called Holiday in the Sun. read more

Al Capone In Music we have been exploring Ska music. Here's our version of "Al Capone" by Prince Buster.  read more

Shayna's Blues Shayna recorded a Blues improvisation on the piano.check it out   read more

At the Hop Pupils at St Mary's  recorded a version of "At the Hop". check it out here read more

Hound Dog re write Primary pupils at St Mary's re wrote the words to Elvis' song "Hound Dog" and recorded their version - check it out!   read more

Chicken Blues In music the Green group have been studying the Blues. They re wrote the words to Elvis' song "Hound Dog" and recorded 2 versions - check them out! read more

Star Trekking In our music session we performed this intergalactic song. read more

Brompton Blues Chloe and Theo studied the Blues and recorded their own "Brompton Blues" composition. read more

My Separate World In her English session Hattie wrote this amazing story called "My Separate World" Then in her music session she recorded herself reading it and arranged and added a musical accompaniment.... read more

The Night of the Living Vegetables! Hattie composed a piece of music and then decided that she would create an animation to go with it.Here it is - The Night of the Living Vegetables! Â... read more

My old man's a dustman Iara, Usman, Samiyah, Miles and Bilal played and sang on this funny song. Helen, Nicola and Martin helped out. read more

Do your ears hang low? Iara, Usman, Samiyah, Miles and Bilal played and sang on this funny song. Helen, Nicola and Martin helped out. read more

Indian Music We are exploring Asian music and here is a recording of our improvisation in an Indian classical style read more

Indian Music We are exploring Asian music and here is a recording of our improvisation in an Indian classical style read more

Splatts Circus Splatts Circus came to visit us at Chelsea & Westminster.Clowning around came very naturally to the Hospital School staff! read more

IROKO Iroko came to Chelsea and Westminster yesterday. We had great fun playing African instruments and learning how to dance. read more

Autumn Leaves We have been studying Jazz in our music sessions. Pupils at all sites have worked together on a joint recording of the famous jazz tune Autumn Leaves. We also included... read more

Skye Boat Song at BH Dylan and "Anonymous"  recorded this version of the Skye Boat Song. Dylan played string sound on the Keyboard, Anonymous played chime bars and Martin played piano. read more

Skye Boat Song by Michael Michael recorded this version of the Skye Boat Song on the piano, he harmonised the melody and arranged Martin to play an accompaniment on the keyboad   read more

The Skye Boat Song Pupils recorded their version of the Skye Boat Song.Hilmy (12) played the chimebars, Lee (13) played Xylophone and Tosin (14) played the bass notes on the keyboard. Helen sang and... read more

Molly Malone by the Green group The Green group have been exploring folk music.Here's their version of Molly Malone. Hamish played xylophone and Brandon played a string sound on the keyboard and sang. Sandra and Martin... read more

Molly Malone by Michael and William We have been exploring folk music. Michael played piano and his brother William played drums on this version of Molly Malone read more

Star of the County Down Shona and Dylan listened to different versions of this Irish song and then recorded their own version. Naomi, Martin and Robin helped out. read more

Off to California Pupils at St Marys have been studying music of the British Isles. Janani and Rahin recorded their version of an Irish tune called "Off to California" read more

Zac's Chime Time Zac created this relaxing duet with Martin, playing only the black notes on the piano read more

Loch Lomond by Toni Toni has been studying folk music from the British Isles. Listen to her playing the melody of "Loch Lomond", a song from Scotland. read more

Scarborough Fair by Edward Nahid Tarazi Edward has been studying folk music from the British Isles. Listen to him singing Scarborough Fair, a song from England.   read more

Loch Lomond by the Green group In the Green group pupils have been studying music of the British IslesHere they are singing Loch Lomond read more

Kings and Queens composition Imogen, Liam, Orla and Sasha in the Green Group recorded their own composition with help from Parule and Martin.They called it Kings and Queens read more

Steel Drum Fever by Toni Toni played a Steel Pan sound on the keyboard for her reggae composition read more

Hawaiian Reggae by Sarah Sarah recorded her reggae composition using a Steel Pan sound on the keyboard read more

Greensleeves by Sarah Sarah plays the Oboe. In music she found the Oboe sound on the keyboard and played the tune Greensleeves as a a duet. read more

Rivers of Babylon - with Georgia and Glen In KS3 / 4 music we are exploring reggae music.Check out our recording read more

Three Little Birds - at St Marys In KS3 / 4 music we are exploring reggae music.Check out our recording read more

Three Little Birds - from Chelsea In KS3 / 4 music we are exploring reggae music.Check out our recording read more

Three Little Birds In KS3 / 4 music we are exploring reggae music. Check out our recording   read more

Hold Up by Jessi Jessi made these this great composition in Music using Magix Music Maker read more

Music compositions by the Green Group In the Green group pupils have created their own compositions using Magix Music Maker. Check out these great sounds! read more

Composition by Ascia and Marissa Ascia and Marissa created this great composition in music using Magix Music Maker   read more

Anthony H's Composition Anthony H explored the guitar in the music session. He practised tuning it and looked at chord shapes and sounds. Then he recorded this guitar composition,. He got Martin to... read more

African Music Pupils at Collingham have been studying African Music. Here are two recordings of their music read more

Not so Blues We are studying the Blues in KS3/4 music and pupils at Chelsea recorded this cheerful Blues which they called the Not so Blues. Shayna and Rosemary played xylophone, Layla and... read more

Chelsea Blues We are exploring the Blues in KS 3/4 music and Rosemary, Zoe, Layla, Joao and Claude recorded "The Chelsea Blues" with help from Helen, Jay, Martin and vocal samples... read more

Raj plays the Blues We are exploring the Blues this term in KS 3/4 music and Raj played both guitar and drums. Listen to these two recordings of his great playing read more

Jake's Blues Jake had a really short music session but managed to record a great solo over an accompaniment from Martin. He called his composition Jake's Blues {audio}mp3/jakes blues audio44 rec.mp3{/audio}... read more

St James Infirmary Blues In KS 3/4 Music we are studying the Blues. Listen to our recording of St James Infirmary Blues. Ryan (13) Â held it all together playing the bassline on the... read more

Raga Malkosh In KS3/4 Music we have been exploring Indian Classical music. Here is our recording of Raga Malkosh. read more

Iroko Band  At the end of term we had a visit from the African Drum Band 'Iroko'. As well as playing alongside them we all got up and danced. Iroko's... read more

London Symphony Orchestra visit We are lucky at St. Mary's to have musicians from the London Symphony Orchestra visit us. On this Occasion a Double Bass player and a French Horn player helped... read more

Darrens Crazy Day Listen to Darrens (13) fantastic composition which he created with the help of The London Symphony Orchestra...   read more

Indian Music Composition We have been exploring Indian classical music and here is a composition by Michael LeahThomas. It is made up of a drone and improvisation based on Raga Malakosh. This raga... read more

Mohammed's experiences in the music class Mohammed came to the school not knowing any English or having much previous experience of education. He enjoys lessons and extra curricular activities and here he describes his experiences in... read more

The Star of the County Down Music of the British Isles This term in KS3/4 Music we have been exploring the Music of the British Isles. We recorded 2 versions of a traditional Irish tune... read more

The Star of the County Down remix Music of the British Isles This term in KS3/4 Music we have been exploring the Music of the British Isles. We recorded the accompaniment to a traditional Irish tune... read more

Loch Lomond Music of the British Isles This term in KS3/4 Music we have been exploring the Music of the British Isles. First we went to Scotland and learnt the tune... read more

The Shape Song This summer term we were paid a visit by The London Symphony Orchestra. With help from the London Symphony Orhcestra the children from Rose ward at the Royal Brompton... read more

Reggae Groove We practised rhythms and learnt a reggae bass line and chords.Leah played xylophone on a reggae groove.Listen to it here {audio}mp3/leah.mp3{/audio} read more

Compositions We explored copying rhythms, and then added improvisations, George (year 6) and Ohene (year 2) created a group composition using drums, bass, piano and guitar. Listen to it here... read more

From life to death Sam,a pupil at Collingham Gardens made this tune using Music Maker 2004. listen to it here {mp3}Sites/CG/MUSIC/sam r from life to death{/mp3} read more

Relaxation Music Srija and Sophie made this tune using Magix Music Maker to relax people when they are stressed.   listen to it here {audio}mp3/REXLATION MUSIC srija sophie.mp3{/audio} read more

In the groove Nigel, a pupil at  Collingham Gardens made this tune by using Music Maker 2004. {mp3}Sites/CG/MUSIC/Nigel{/mp3} read more

Mission Possible Jay, Hasan and Usama created Mission Possible listen to it here: {mp3}Sites/CW/MUSIC/Mission possible{/mp3} read more

What shall we do with the grumpy teacher? Pirates Caribean Song Chocolate World Weird Song Autumn Melody Don't Look Back in Anger I can see clearly now History of Jamaican music Trouble So Hard Lullaby and bonus tracks Trouble So Hard Tulips from Amsterdam Michael's Blues Octopus's Garden by Noella It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing Winter Song Autumn Leaves Snow Song The Beatles Quiz The twelve days of Christmas African music with IROKO Marchetta Octopus's Garden Can't Buy Me Love The wintertime is coming The Star of the County Down instrumental The Star of the County Down My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean Scarborough Fair Hallelujah Daniel's Land's End Soundtrack Kai's Land's End Soundtrack Land's End Soundtrack (CW) I wanna be like you Green Group Composition GEC Music Composition based on Pachelbel's Canon Yellow Submarine Holiday in the Sun Al Capone Shayna's Blues At the Hop Hound Dog re write Chicken Blues Star Trekking Brompton Blues My Separate World The Night of the Living Vegetables! My old man's a dustman Do your ears hang low? Indian Music Indian Music Splatts Circus IROKO Autumn Leaves Skye Boat Song at BH Skye Boat Song by Michael The Skye Boat Song Molly Malone by the Green group Molly Malone by Michael and William Star of the County Down Off to California Zac's Chime Time Loch Lomond by Toni Scarborough Fair by Edward Nahid Tarazi Loch Lomond by the Green group Kings and Queens composition Steel Drum Fever by Toni Hawaiian Reggae by Sarah Greensleeves by Sarah Rivers of Babylon - with Georgia and Glen Three Little Birds - at St Marys Three Little Birds - from Chelsea Three Little Birds Hold Up by Jessi Music compositions by the Green Group Composition by Ascia and Marissa Anthony H's Composition African Music Not so Blues Chelsea Blues Raj plays the Blues Jake's Blues St James Infirmary Blues Raga Malkosh Iroko Band London Symphony Orchestra visit Darrens Crazy Day Indian Music Composition Mohammed's experiences in the music class The Star of the County Down The Star of the County Down remix Loch Lomond The Shape Song Reggae Groove Compositions From life to death Relaxation Music In the groove Mission Possible