Tutorial: learn the songs 'London Town has fallen down' and 'Ring the bells of London'
The tutorial: learn the songs
Find out what happened after The Great Fire - the need to help the homeless and build a new city…one constructed from bricks and stone, not wood.
Learning to sing two songs: 'London town has fallen down' (to the tune 'London Bridge has fallen down') and 'Ring the bells of London' (to the tune 'Oranges and lemons').
Song: 'London Town has fallen down'
Song 1: 'London town has fallen down' (vocal)
Song 1: 'London Town has fallen down' (backing)
The song is based on the popular nursery song 'London Bridge has fallen down' and is sung to the same tune.
Once you have learnt the song by singing with vocal version polish your performance by singing with the backing track.
Click here for the lyric sheet.
Click here for the music sheet.
Song: 'Ring the bells of London'
Song 2: 'Ring the bells of London' (Vocal)
Song 2: 'Ring the bells of London' (backing)
The song celebrates the bells of London, using the tune 'Oranges and lemons'.
Once you have learnt the song by singing with vocal version polish your performance by singing with the backing track.
Click here for the lyric sheet.
Click here for the music sheet.
Listening music
Tap a repeating drum-rhythm and hum sad notes with the ‘Funeral music’
Purcell: 'March' from 'Music on the Death of Queen Mary'
Children can tap in time to the repeating drum-rhythm
Can they identify the moment when the music becomes louder?
What makes this funeral music sound 'sad'?
Resources
Teacher's Notes. document
Guidance on all the content (pdf)
Meet the famous people. image
Meet the famous people in this slideshow of images
Lyric sheets for pupils. document
All the lyric sheets together (pdf)
Lyrics - London town has fallen down. document
Download / print the song lyrics
Music - London town has fallen down. document
Download / print the song music
Lyrics - Ring the bells of London. document
Download / print the song lyrics (pdf)
Music - Ring the bells of London. document
Download / print the music (pdf)
More from this series
4. Samuel Pepys and The Great Fire of London - part 2. audio
Finding out about The Great Fire and singing songs based on well-known nursery rhymes.
6. Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart and Haydn - part 1. audio
Exploring great composers with songs based on some of their most famous melodies.
7. Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart and Haydn - part 2. audio
Exploring great composers with songs based on some of their most famous melodies.. Part 2 looks at Mozart and Haydn.
