Resources

Music>  Linking Listening to Music cross the Curriculum

Geography

• New York, New York
• Choose music to represent country being studied

Maths

• Money - Pink Floyd
• Money makes the world go around - Song from the film Cabaret
• Money, Money, Money - Abba
• 5,6,7,8 - Steps

History

• Tudor Music - Greensleeves
• Songs from WW2 - White Cliffs of Dover etc
• Medieval (The Shop Past Times has a collection of various CD's linked with the past

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Science

• Nature Rainforest - CD's available from Garden Centres - "Environmental"
• Sea
• Seasons - Vivaldi 4 seaons
• Mini-beasts - Ugly Bug Ball

P.E.

• Music to warm up / exercise
• Sporting Theme Tunes (Past Times)
• Use calming music at the end of physical sessions especially for younger children.  If the children lie still and listen for just two minutes, they will be calmer when it is time to get dressed

Art

• Play music in the background that represents the mood or time in history that associates with the work
• Pictures at an Exhibition - Mussorgsky - The Promenade (walking around a gallery looking at the pictures)

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English

• Relaxing music to write or read to
• Drama inspired music Shakespearian? A Midsummer Nights Dream - Mendelssohn
• Shakespeare in Love - Film theme tune

MFL (Music as a Foreign Language)

• Music from the country
• Songs from the country - e.g. Christmas ll le ne (French) Stille Nacht (German)
• France
• Germany
• Italy

PSE

• Circle Time. Choose a piece of music to move into circle time e.g. one child could choose a piece of music each week to move into circle time and give a very brief commentary of why they chose it (respecting other peoples choices)

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Unusual

• Money - Pink Floyd
• Toast - Streetband

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