The Listening Room Podcast

This episode is the tenth lesson from Listening Room 1 published by Bushfire Press and is written and presented by Rob and Lauren Fairbairn.During today’s podcast you will be moving, playing and drawing.This episode is 'Bolero' This lesson provides guided listening and movement activities with links to optional follow-up activities. Perfect to help young people stay grounded and broaden their experience and appreciation of classical musicLinks to all support material including a page for children and guides and assessment materials for teachers can be found at www.thelisteningroom.netListening Room is also available as pre-planned lessons for the classroom. It comes as a book with accompanying media on USB. Find out more about the Listening Room at www.thelisteningroom.net where you can also take advantage of our current 2 for 1 offer on Listening Room titles.ABOUT THE MUSICBolero (1928)Maurice Ravel (French 1875- 1937, impressionist period)

This episode is the ninth lesson from Listening Room 1 published by Bushfire Press and is written and presented by Rob and Lauren Fairbairn.During today’s podcast you will be listening, moving and drawing but, most of all, imagining.This episode is 'Times and Places' This lesson provides guided listening and movement activities with links to optional follow-up activities. Perfect to help young people stay grounded and broaden their experience and appreciation of classical musicLinks to all support material including a page for children and guides and assessment materials for teachers can be found at www.thelisteningroom.netListening Room is also available as pre-planned lessons for the classroom. It comes as a book with accompanying media on USB. Find out more about the Listening Room at www.thelisteningroom.net where you can also take advantage of our current 2 for 1 offer on Listening Room titles.ABOUT THE MUSICTechno World (from The Great Southern Songbook 2001)Rob Fairbairn (Australian b. 1951, modern period)Available in Bushfire Press Singing ResourcesSpring (from The Four Seasons 1725)Antonio Vivaldi (Italian 1678-1741, baroque period)The March of Civilisation  (from Cool Cats Cross Arts Adventures 1998)Rob Fairbairn (Australian 1951, modern period)Available from Bushfire PressRainforest (from Cool Cats Red Hot Recorder Course, level 3 1996)Jeff Mead (Australian b.1957, modern period)Available in Recorder Resources from Bushfire Press

This episode is the eighth lesson from Listening Room 1 published by Bushfire Press and is written and presented by Rob and Lauren Fairbairn.In today’s Listening Room podcast we are going to paint or draw to three different pieces of music. This episode is 'Let’s Make a Picture' This lesson provides guided listening and movement activities with links to optional follow-up activities. Perfect to help young people stay grounded and broaden their experience and appreciation of classical musicLinks to all support material including a page for children and guides and assessment materials for teachers can be found at www.thelisteningroom.netListening Room is also available as pre-planned lessons for the classroom. It comes as a book with accompanying media on USB. Find out more about the Listening Room at www.thelisteningroom.net where you can also take advantage of our current 2 for 1 offer on Listening Room titles.ABOUT THE MUSICDance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (from The Nutcracker Suite 1892)Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian 1840-1893, romantic period)Russian Dance (aka Trepak, from The Nutcracker Suite 1892)Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian 1840-1893, romantic period)Hungarian Dance #5  (1869)Johannes Brahms (German 1833-1897, romantic period)

This episode is the seventh lesson from Listening Room 1 published by Bushfire Press and is written and presented by Rob and Lauren Fairbairn.In today’s Listening Room podcast we are going to listen to the sounds of different musical instruments: some with strings; one you blow and one you play with a keyboard. This episode is 'Crash Tinkle Plunk Toot' This lesson provides guided listening and movement activities with links to optional follow-up activities. Perfect to help young people stay grounded and broaden their experience and appreciation of classical musicLinks to all support material including a page for children and guides and assessment materials for teachers can be found at www.thelisteningroom.netListening Room is also available as pre-planned lessons for the classroom. It comes as a book with accompanying media on USB. Find out more about the Listening Room at www.thelisteningroom.net where you can also take advantage of our current 2 for 1 offer on Listening Room titles.ABOUT THE MUSICThe Minute Waltz (Waltz in D-flat Major 1847)Frederic Chopin (French 1810-1849, romantic period)Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Serenade for Strings in G Major, 1787)Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (German, 1756-1791, classical period)Horn Concerto #3 Rondo (1784-7)Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (German, 1756-1791, classical period)Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune  (1894)Claude Debussy (French 1862-1916, impressionist period)

This episode is the sixth lesson from Listening Room 1 published by Bushfire Press and is written and presented by Rob and Lauren Fairbairn.Today we are going to listen and draw 4 different pieces of musicThis episode is 'Down by the Sea' This lesson provides guided listening and movement activities with links to optional follow-up activities. Perfect to help young people stay grounded and broaden their experience and appreciation of classical musicLinks to all support material including a page for children and guides and assessment materials for teachers can be found at www.thelisteningroom.netListening Room is also available as pre-planned lessons for the classroom. It comes as a book with accompanying media on USB. Find out more about the Listening Room at www.thelisteningroom.net where you can also take advantage of our current 2 for 1 offer on Listening Room titles.ABOUT THE MUSICThe Flight Of The Bumble Bee (from the opera The Tale of Tsat Saltan 1901)Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian, 1844-1908, post-romantic period)Fingals Cave (aka The Hebrides 1830)Felix Mendelssohn (German, 1809-1847, early romantic period)The Aquarium  (from the Carnival of the Animals suite, 1886)Camille Saint-Saens (French, 1835-1921, post-romantic period)Canarios  (Music for the Spanish Guitar Vol. 1 1674)Gaspar Sanz  (Spanish 1640-1710)

Written and presented by Rob and Lauren Fairbairn.This episode is the fifth lesson from Listening Room 1 published by Bushfire Press and written and presented by Rob and Lauren Fairbairn.It is all about drama and movement to different types of music – today we are going to move to and play along with 3 different pieces of music. This episode is 'Play Along' This lesson provides guided listening and movement activities with links to optional follow-up activities. Perfect to help young people stay grounded and broaden their experience and appreciation of classical musicLinks to all support material including a page for children and guides and assessment materials for teachers can be found at www.thelisteningroom.netListening Room is also available as pre-planned lessons for the classroom. It comes as a book with accompanying media on USB. Find out more about the Listening Room at www.thelisteningroom.net where you can also take advantage of our current 2 for 1 offer on Listening Room titles.ABOUT THE MUSICSleigh Bells Traditional Folk Tune (Russian)Turkish March Ludwig van BeethovenIn the Hall of The Mountain King (from The Peer Gynt Suite #2 1875)Edvard Greig

Written and presented by Rob and Lauren Fairbairn.This episode is the fourth lesson from Listening Room 1 published by Bushfire Press and written and presented by Rob and Lauren Fairbairn.It is all about drama and movement to different types of music – this time featuring different modes of transport – car, canoe, steam train and hot air balloon. It’s called ‘Going Places’ This lesson provides guided listening and movement activities with links to optional follow-up activities. Perfect to help young people stay grounded and broaden their experience and appreciation of classical musicLinks to all support material including a page for children and guides and assessment materials for teachers can be found at www.thelisteningroom.netListening Room is also available as pre-planned lessons for the classroom. It comes as a book with accompanying media on USB. Find out more about the Listening Room at www.thelisteningroom.net where you can also take advantage of our current 2 for 1 offer on Listening Room titles.About the Pieces:An American in Paris - Introduction (from An American in Paris 1928) George Gershwin (American, 1898-1937, modern period)Evening Fall  (Harp)Kevin MacLeod (contemporary composer, NYC)In the Hall of The Mountain King (from The Peer Gynt Suite #2 1875)Edvard Greig (Norwegian, 1843-1907, romantic period)Air on the G-String (from Orchestral Suite #3 in D Major poss 1723)Johann Sebastian Bach (German 1685-1750 baroque period)

This episode is from Listening Room 2, published by Bushfire Pressand written and presented by Rob and Lauren Fairbairn.Today’s podcast is all about how an opera overture works (in this case, the overtureto Carmen, by Bizet). It’s called ‘Welcome to the Show’ Welcome to the Showand includes a fun quiz for assessment.This lesson provides guided listening and movement activities with links to optional follow-up activities. Perfect to help young people stay grounded and broaden their experience and appreciation of classical musicLinks to all support material including a page for children and guides and assessment materials for teachers can be found at www.thelisteningroom.netListening Room is also available as pre-planned lessons for the classroom. It comes as a book with accompanying media on USB. Find out more about the Listening Room at www.thelisteningroom.net where you can also take advantage of our current 2 for 1 offer on Listening Room titles.ABOUT THE PIECEOverture to Carmen (from theopera Carmen 1875)Georges Bizet (French, 1838-1875, romantic period)

Written and presented by Rob and Lauren Fairbairn.This episode is the third lesson from Listening Room 1 published by Bushfire Press. It is all about drama and different ways of moving to different types of music. It’s called ‘All Creatures Great and Small’. This lesson provides guided listening and movement activities with links to optional follow-up activities. Perfect to help young people stay grounded and broaden their experience and appreciation of classical musicLinks to all support material including a page for children and guides and assessment materials for teachers can be found at www.thelisteningroom.netListening Room is also available as pre-planned lessons for the classroom. It comes as a book with accompanying media on USB. Find out more about the Listening Room at www.thelisteningroom.net where you can also take advantage of our current 2 for 1 offer on Listening Room titles.ABOUT THE PIECESThe Golliwog’s Cakewalk (from The Children’s Corner 1908)Claude Debussy (French 1862-1916, impressionist period)Barcarolle  ‘Belle nuit o nuit d’amour’ (from The Tales of Hoffman 1881)Jacques Offenbach (German/French, 1819-1880, romantic period) The William Tell Overture (from the opera William Tell 1829)Gioachino Rossini (Italian 1792-1868, romantic period)Bydlo (from Pictures at an Exhibition suite, 1874)Modest Mussorgsky (Russian, 1839-1881, post-romantic period) Finale from the Carnival of the Animals suite (1886)Camille Saint-Saens (French, 1835-1921, impressionist period) Overture to Carmen (from the opera Carmen 1875)Georges Bizet (French, 1838-1875, romantic period)

This episode is from Listening Room 3 published by Bushfire Press and and explains the 3 prime features of The Baroque era (1600 to 1750). This lesson provides guided listening and movement activities with links to follow-up activities. It presents 2 pieces of music through which you will be introduced to three of the prime features of Baroque music: the basso continuo, variation and texture.Perfect to help young people stay grounded and broaden their experience and appreciation of classical music. Links to all support material including a page for children and guides and assessment materials for teachers can be found at www.thelisteningroom.netABOUT THE PIECESGeorge Frideric Handel Sarabande  4th movement from the Suite in D minor for Harpsichord. First published in 1733).Handel wrote a number of suites for harpsichord. The D minor (HWV 437) was written between 1703 and 1706. ‘Sarabande’ is the French name for a dance which originated in Central America. It travelled to Spain where it was known as the zarabanda, eventually finding its way to Italy and France where it became a slow court dance. Have You Heard of J.S. Bach? (2016)  Rob Fairbairn (Australian 1951, modern period)Especially written for Listening Room 3