Classical Music for Primary - Ten Pieces

Primary lesson plans and resources for:

Key Stage 2 in England and Wales;\ Key Stage 1/Key Stage 2 in Northern Ireland;\ Second Level, P5-P7 in Scotland

Lesson plans and resources introducing students to classical music from Bach to Wagner with six weeks of learning and activities.

These resources are bursting with ideas for how to get young children to be creative with classical music, but you can of course use the Ten Pieces in many other subjects and activities.

Pick a piece and get started!

John Adams

Short Ride in a Fast Machine

Kerry Andrew

No Place Like

Johann Sebastian Bach

Toccata and Fugue in D minor

Mason Bates

Anthology of Fantastic Zoology – Sprite; A Bao A Qu

Ludwig Van Beethoven

Symphony No. 5 (1st movement)

Leonard Bernstein

‘Mambo’ from Symphonic Dances from 'West Side Story'

Georges Bizet

‘Habanera’ and ‘Toreador Song’ from ‘Carmen Suite No. 2’

Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

Symphony No. 1 in G major – Allegro (1st mvt)

Benjamin Britten

'Storm' from 'Peter Grimes'

Anna Clyne

Night Ferry (extract)

Aaron Copland

Rodeo – Hoe-Down

Antonín Dvořák

Symphony No. 9 in E minor, 'From the New World’ – Largo (2nd mvt)

Edward Elgar

‘Enigma’ Variations – Theme (‘Enigma’), variations 11, 6 & 7

Edvard Grieg

In the Hall of the Mountain King from ‘Peer Gynt’

George Frideric Handel

Zadok the Priest

Joseph Haydn

Trumpet Concerto (3rd movement)

Gustav Holst

‘Mars’ from ‘The Planets’

Anna Meredith

Connect It

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Horn Concerto No. 4 (3rd movement)

Modest Mussorgsky

A Night on the Bare Mountain

Carl Orff

Carmina Burana - 'O fortuna'

Gabriel Prokofiev

Concerto for Turntables and Orchestra (5th movement)

Henry Purcell

Abdelazer – Rondeau

Dmitri Shostakovich

Symphony No. 10 (2nd movement)

Jean Sibelius

Finlandia

Igor Stravinsky

The Firebird — suite (1911) (Finale)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

The Nutcracker – Waltz of the Flowers; Russian Dance

Giuseppe Verdi

‘Dies Irae’ and ‘Tuba Mirum’ from ‘Requiem’

Richard Wagner

‘Ride of the Valkyries’ from ‘Die Walküre’

Mussorgsky

Night on the Bare Mountain

Vaughan Williams

Lark Ascending

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