All Creatures Great and Small - A Listening Room Podcast for Beginning Primary Students

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.net

Listening 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

The 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)