Unit 13 Painting With Sound
Guitar only, on white background.
Official classification: Classical Guitar, Image, Unit 13 Painting With Sound
Image of painting by Bridget Riley (1931-)
Official classification: Painting, Paintings, Image, Unit 13 Painting With Sound , Curriculum support
Image of painting by Frank Dicksee (1853-1928)
Official classification: Painting, Paintings, Image, Unit 13 Painting With Sound , Curriculum support
Image of painting of the Old Battersea Bridge by Whistler (1834-1903)
Official classification: Painting, Paintings, Image, Unit 13 Painting With Sound , Curriculum support
Image of Houses of Parliament painting by Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Official classification: Painting, Paintings, Image, Unit 13 Painting With Sound , Curriculum support
Image of painting by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
Official classification: Painting, Paintings, Image, Unit 13 Painting With Sound , Curriculum support
Image of painting in the style of dutch artist Piet Mondrian (1872-1912)
Official classification: Painting, Paintings, Image, Unit 13 Painting With Sound , Curriculum support
Orchestral performance of piece number 10 from Pictures at an Exhibition.
Official classification: The Romantic Period, Classical Pieces, Audio, Unit 13 Painting With Sound , Programme Music, Curriculum support, Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich
Recommended example to show that music, like pictures, can describe images and moods from QCA Unit 13 for KS2 Painting with Sound. Its first theme is an exchange of cuckoo calls, first for oboe, then for divided strings.
Official classification: Theme & Variation, Animals, 1900-1949, Classical Pieces, Audio, England, Unit 13 Painting With Sound , Curriculum support, Delius, Frederick
Excellent descriptive piece of harpsichord music by French Baroque composer Francois Couperin. This short piece ‘paints’ a picture of a group of people knitting furiously.
Official classification: The Baroque Era, Classical Pieces, Audio, Unit 13 Painting With Sound , Curriculum support, Couperin, Francois, Harpsichord
From Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg's incidental music to accompany Henrik Ibsen's play.
Suggested in QCA Unit 13 for KS2 'Painting with Sound' as example of music that describes a scene.
Official classification: Bowed Strings, Flute, Oboe, Theme & Variation, The Romantic Period, Classical Pieces, Audio, Grieg, Edvard Hagerup, Unit 13 Painting With Sound , Curriculum support
Suggested listening for QCA Unit 13 Painting With Sound (KS2) as example of music describing an animal.
Official classification: Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar, 1960s, Audio, Blues, Rock, England, Unit 13 Painting With Sound , Curriculum support
This 1906 orchestral piece describes New York's Central Park, the sounds of the city (quoting Sousa's Washington Post March) contrasting with the mysterious sounding strings describing the woods. It is recommended for listening in QCA Unit 13 'Painting with Sound' for KS2 but there is plenty for KS3&4 pupils to focus on, with Ives' use of shifting chords in the strings (a combination of different intervals thirds, fourths, and fifths) and his use of dissonance.
Official classification: Intervals, Chords, Discord, 1900-1949, Classical Pieces, Audio, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, United States, Unit 13 Painting With Sound , Curriculum support, Dissonance, Ives, Charles
The Catacombs, number 8 from Pictures at an Exhibition, also known as Cum mortuis in lingua mortua or With the Dead in a Dead Language. The form of this movement is binary. Its two sections consist of a nearly static Largo with a sequence of block chords, elegiac lines adding a touch of melancholy, and a more flowing, gloomy "Andante" that introduces the "Promenade" theme into the scene.
Official classification: Binary(AB), The Romantic Period, Classical Pieces, Audio, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Unit 13 Painting With Sound , Programme Music, Curriculum support, Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich
The Gnome, number 1 from Pictures at an Exhibition depicts a little gnome, clumsily running with crooked legs and features contrasting tempos with frequent stops and starts.
Official classification: Tempo, Silence, The Romantic Period, Classical Pieces, Audio, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Unit 13 Painting With Sound , Programme Music, Curriculum support, Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich
Number 2 from Pictures at an Exhibition, this movement is thought to be based on a watercolor depiction of an Italian castle.
Official classification: The Romantic Period, Classical Pieces, Audio, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Unit 13 Painting With Sound , Programme Music, Curriculum support, Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich
Piece number 9 from Pictures at an Exhibition. Motives in this movement evoke the bells of a large clock and the whirlwind sounds of a chase. It is also in Ternary form.
Official classification: Ternary(ABA), The Romantic Period, Classical Pieces, Audio, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Unit 13 Painting With Sound , Programme Music, Curriculum support, Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich
Piece number 4 from Pictures at an Exhibition describes A Polish cart on enormous wheels, drawn by oxen and is in ternary form (ABA).
Official classification: Ternary(ABA), The Romantic Period, Classical Pieces, Audio, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Unit 13 Painting With Sound , Programme Music, Curriculum support, Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich
Number 5 from Pictures at an Exhibition. This movement is in ternary form (ABA) with a repeat and coda.
Official classification: Ternary(ABA), The Romantic Period, Classical Pieces, Audio, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Unit 13 Painting With Sound , Programme Music, Curriculum support, Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich
Dispute between Children at Play, number 3 from Pictures at an Exhibition. Piece describes a Hartman painting of a busy garden full of children playing and quarrelling. In ternary form.
Official classification: Ternary(ABA), The Romantic Period, Classical Pieces, Audio, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Unit 13 Painting With Sound , Programme Music, Curriculum support, Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich