The Voice Melody and Friends

# Melody, Melody

# Listen to the music Let your mind run free

# Melody, Melody

# From a castle or the jungle To the Arctic Sea

# It could be as loud as a storm Or quiet as a sigh

# As dainty as a dance step Or soaring high in the sky

# Melody, Melody

-# The musical imaginings of Melody

-And friends. #

-Let's skip together.

-You want to skip together?

-You and me.

-I don't know if I should be skipping together!

'I'm really excited today, because we're not just meeting one person,

'we're meeting loads, and they're all singers.

'They all come here to sing together.

'I wonder, is your voice a musical instrument?

'I mean, it doesn't have strings like a guitar and it doesn't have

'keys like a piano, so what does it have?

'I suppose I'll have to ask.'

-Melody...

-'I can hear people practising.'

..I can hear a harp, can you? Listen.

HARP PLAYS

That is nice, isn't it?

VIOLIN PLAYS

And can you hear the violin?

SINGING

I can hear somebody singing and it sounds like it's coming

-from over there.

-Shall we have a listen?

Yes, please.

'Listen. That doesn't sound like a song.'

THEY SING SCALES

-Hello!

-Hi.

-We heard you outside.

Hello. Thank you so much for letting us come and have a listen to you.

So you're using your voices and your voices are

a bit like an instrument, then?

Yes, you're able to control it and develop it to make it sound

even better and it's a really good way of expressing your emotions.

And also the different tones that you can kind of make with

your voice as well, could you tell us a bit about that?

Yes, you can make lighter, happier tones and then you can make

darker, maybe more sad tones as well.

Although it is part of your body, unlike any other instrument,

you can use that to your advantage and adapt your voice to whatever

-expression you're putting forward or what piece you're singing.

-I see.

To show all the different, yeah, emotions of it. Fantastic.

Do you have to practise lots?

Oh, yeah, we have to practise almost every day, especially because

the voice is a muscle, so it's like working out to make it stronger.

So would you be able to share some of your practice now?

One, two.

THEY SING SCALES

Lovely.

Loose lips.

Same again to "mah". One, two.

THEY SING ASCENDING SCALES

Let go. Good.

Up we go.

-Wow.

-Please can I have a go?

I should think so. Let's do "wah-wah" again.

One, two.

THEY SING ASCENDING SCALES

Lovely.

-Fantastic.

-I didn't know you could sing so well. You kept that from me.

So is there perhaps something else you could sing for us?

Let's do Life Is But A Melancholy Flower. OK?

# Life is but a Life is but a

# Melancholy flower Melancholy flower

# Life is but a melan... Life is but a melan...

# ..choly flower ..choly flower

# Life is but a melancholy flower

# ..choly flower. #

Gosh! That was so good! Thank you so much.

-We've absolutely loved listening to you.

-Thank you.

But we've got to meet your friends

and you've got to get ready for the recital, haven't you?

So we'll let you go, but thank you again.

'I have some friends arriving who are going to

'listen to some music with me.

'I wonder what they will think of.'

-Hello, everybody.

-Hello.

-Are you excited to listen to some of the lovely music?

-ALL:

-Yes.

And when you listen, I'd like you to think about what pictures come into

your mind and you can close your eyes if you like.

'I hope they don't fall asleep!'

Today we will be performing Vocalise by Rachmaninoff.

'The music is beautiful. It makes me feel like...

'I'm drifting along on water.

'Oh, a fish.'

Something fell in the water!

Now the fish is chasing it,

deeper and deeper.

It's sparkling. It looks like a ring.

What's this?

There's a lady.

I think she's lost something.

Now a man has arrived.

They're both looking now,

but they don't seem to find it.

The fish has found what they're looking for.

APPLAUSE

'That was so beautiful.

'I didn't want it to end.

'We all applaud at the end of the show.

'After the recital, Mum and I go to catch up with our friends.

'I can't wait for them to tell me what they thought of it.'

-Hello, everybody.

-ALL:

-Hello.

-Come and sit down.

It's so nice to see you all again.

-Did you enjoy listening to the singers that we watched?

-ALL:

-Yes.

-I bet it made you think of all sorts of things, didn't it?

-ALL:

-Yes.

When I listened to the music,

it made me feel like I was floating on the river.

Melody and I were wondering what the music made you think of.

-Shall we have a listen again?

-Yes.

And when we listen to the music, let your imaginations run free.

'My friends all listen very carefully.'

So, Joseph, what did that music make you think of?

Playing in the foam.

And what about you, Deacon? What came into your head?

-A bird soaring in the air.

-A bird?

-Were you flying or were you kind of in a tree?

-Flying.

-You're flying.

-Where were you flying? Were you soaring quite high or...?

-High.

High through the sky.

-So, Seb, did it make you think of anything different?

-A fairy.

Yeah, because it's quite pretty music, isn't it?

What about you, Ruby?

I was on a cloud and birds were flying around the cloud.

-And, Izzy?

-I was an angel floating in the sky.

I was outside my house then loads of birds came down

-and I jumped onto them and then went flying in the sky.

-Did you?

-So these were giant birds, were they?

-No...

-Or were you mini? Did you shrink?

-Yeah.

-You were flying on a bird.

Mini you going around in a bird.

Jess, did that make you think of anything in your imagination?

It made me feel like I was on holiday on the beach

having fun with my family.

So that piece of music was actually really, really soft and graceful,

which is why we all kind of thought of birds and flying.

Thank you, everybody, for your wonderful imaginations.

We've loved listening to your ideas, but we've got to go now,

-so we'll see you soon. Take care.

-Bye. See you soon.

-Bye.

'Everybody has different ideas, but it's all for the same music.

'I love it when music gives everyone lots of ideas.'

-I loved it.

-Careful coming over here.

Oh! Well, they were really interesting ideas, weren't they?

Yes. Birds, angels - they were all flying things.

Well, the same piece of music can mean lots of different things

-to different people.

-Mummy, can we listen to it again, please?

-Of course you can.

-'I loved hearing all the ideas.'

That music made us think of birds, angels and holidays.

And it made me think of a fish swimming in the water.

What did it make you think of?