Primary resources - KS2 / 2nd Level

Primary classroom resources for Ten Pieces Trailblazer Grażyna Bacewicz, who broke new ground as a female composer in Poland.

Primary classroom resources for Ten Pieces Trailblazer Johannes Brahms who was inspired by Hungarian folk music.

Primary classroom resources for Ten Pieces Trailblazer Delia Debyshire who launched a whole new world of music.

Primary classroom resources for Ten Pieces Trailblazer George Gershwin who composed music full of the energy and playfulness of New York City in the 1920s.

Primary classroom resources for Ten Pieces Trailblazer Florence Price who overcame prejudice to become the first black female composer to have her work performed by a major orchestra.

Primary classroom resources for Ten Pieces Trailblazer Steve Reich who helped to invent a whole new form of music: minimalism.

Primary classroom resources for Ten Pieces Trailblazer Ravi Shankar who shared his passion for the sound and traditions of Hindustani classical music with the whole world.

Primary classroom resources for Ten Pieces Trailblazer Heitor Villa-Lobos who brought the instruments, rhythms and melodies of his home, Brazil, into the concert hall, creating a vibrant, exciting new sound.

Primary classroom resources for Ten Pieces Trailblazer Antonio Vivaldi, one of the first people to compose music that was designed to remind listeners of places and things in the world around them.

Primary classroom resources for Ten Pieces Trailblazer Hans Zimmer, who has created unique and powerful soundtracks that have influenced a whole generation of musicians.

Bach's famous piece, originally for organ, is written in two sections: the Toccata, a free-form introduction and the second part - the Fugue - with complex overlapping repetitions of a main theme played alongside different counter-melodies.

One of Bernstein's most popular works is a re-imagining of Shakespeare's famous tragedy 'Romeo and Juliet' into a New York gang warfare setting.

'Carmen' is light opera with a serious ending about a beautiful girl who works in a factory. The 'Habanera' and the 'Toreador Song' from the opera are now two of the best known of all operatic arias.

When Anna Clyne settled on the idea of creating a piece about crossing a stormy ocean, she picked up a paint brush instead of writing music notes on paper and created a graphic score, laying out how she wanted her piece to sound by using swirls and sweeps of dark, violent colours.

Elgar's variations show how music can convey personality, an event, a memory or a moment in time.

Haydn's Concerto for Trumpet in E flat was a ground-breaking addition to the trumpet repertoire.

‘O fortuna’ is one of the most famous choral pieces in the world. The piece gives us a chance to meet Fortuna, the Roman Goddess of Fortune (also worshipped in Greek mythology) and transports us back to medieval times.

In this concerto, the turntable player used the sounds created by the orchestra and manipulates them, creating a battle of sounds.