Blow, Blow, Blow

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This evocative piece about windy weather and sailing boats is a useful springboard for considering weather systems and wind instruments from around the world.

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Blow, Blow, Blow

This evocative piece about windy weather and sailing boats is a useful springboard for considering weather systems, the earth’s atmosphere and climate change. It also introduces children to a number of wind instruments from around the world.

The piece also works as a song, with lyrics shown on screen to the left. Children can move their hands up and down with the lines on screen, to show the rising and falling of the tune in each of the eight verses. They could say or sing the words, hum or sing the tune, and play along on any melody instrument. The notes used are low A, C, D, E, G, A, and high C.

The illustrations in the video include clarinet, concertina, ocarina (in Verse 1), recorders and accordion (in Verse 2), harmonica, ocarina and concertina (in Verse 3), penny whistle, panpipes and concertina (in Verse 4), flute, recorder and accordion (in Verse 5), clarinet, saxophone and harmonica (in Verse 6), horn, trumpets, kazoos and accordion (in Verse 7), clarinet, concertina and ocarina (in Verse 8), flute, recorder, whistle, harmonica and panpipes (in the Coda).

Pupils can mime relevant actions and join in with similar instruments available at your school. Chord instruments such as keyboard, ukulele, guitar, autoharp, melodica and accordion can play chords of C, A minor and F, as indicated on screen.

And a fun, creative follow-up activity is for kazoo players to invent fanfares similar to the trumpet calls in Verse 7.

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