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# Melody, Melody

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# Listen to the music, let your mind run free

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# Melody, Melody

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# From a castle or the jungle to the Arctic Sea

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# It could be as loud as a storm

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# Or quiet as a sigh

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# As dainty as a dance step

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# Or soaring high in the sky

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# Melody, Melody

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# Listen to the music, let your mind run free

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# Melody, Melody

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# The musical imaginings of Melody. #

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And friends!

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Today Mum and I are going to the school to meet some friends.

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I skip with excitement as we walk up to the doors.

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This is my friend Cherry and she plays the harp.

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MUSIC PLAYS

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-Oh! Oh, Melody, I can hear a harp.

-It's lovely.

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It's really dreamlike, it's really nice. Shall we go and have a listen?

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Yes, please. Let's go.

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-Ah!

-Hello.

-Hello, Cherry.

-Hello.

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Thank you so much for letting us come in and see your harp.

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-Melody, what do you think of the harp?

-Wow.

-It's amazing, isn't it?

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And all these lovely strings you've got coming down here.

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They've got different colours. Why is that?

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So we don't get confused. There's too much string.

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This one is C. All the red ones are always C.

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-Yeah.

-And all the black ones are F.

-They are different notes.

-Yeah.

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-In between C and F, that's D and E. G-A-B.

-Do you want to pull them?

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Yeah, go ahead.

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Wow! It makes that vibration and

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all these little bits up here, what do they do?

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Those are for the pedals, they're connected to the pedals.

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There's three different sounds for each string.

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SHE PLAYS THREE NOTES

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-Wow!

-Yeah.

-The shape is quite amazing.

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It almost looks like a ship or something.

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In olden times, people used to hunt using bows and arrows

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and when the string was fired from the bow,

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it made quite a nice sound, so they thought they would add more

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strings and the bow gradually expanded and became the harp.

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-Wow!

-So it's literally from a bow and arrow. It became the harp. Wow!

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'Cherry asked if I wanted a go. I couldn't wait.'

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OK. Sit down.

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-All right.

-That's good.

-Don't want to squash you!

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'The harp was bigger than I was!'

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-It might be a bit big for you.

-It's huge, isn't it?

-Yeah.

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-Twice the size of you.

-If you just strum.

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Have a go at strumming. We're holding on. Oh!

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It's like angel music. Cherry, would you be able to play for us?

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-Of course, yes.

-Shall we have a listen?

-Yes, please.

-OK.

-OK.

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-Just come back and sit by Cherry so you can see...

-All the cool things.

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SHE STRUMS

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-Wow!

-Here you can make harmonic.

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SHE PLAYS THREE NOTES

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You can make it the same pitch as this - and there's this.

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-Ah, when you pull up.

-Yeah.

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-How do you play it on your fingers, do you get different effects?

-Yes.

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If you play like this, but you can also play with your nails.

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On your nails, oh!

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Make this sound.

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-Can you hear the difference?

-Yes.

-It's a bit sharper.

-Yes.

-Twangy.

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-A twang sound.

-And here's what's called the xylophone noise.

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HIGH PINGING

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-Ahhh.

-You see the difference?

-Yes.

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So it's whether or not you're letting the strings ring or keeping

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them quite tight which is great. Could you try another? Is it called

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-a gliss when you played it?

-Yes.

-CHERRY PLAYS GLISSANDO

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Wow!

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-The floor's vibrating.

-It's like we're in heaven.

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It's beautiful. Thank you so much.

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'Now, Cherry is going to play something for us.'

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SHE PLAYS A PRETTY TUNE

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'Cherry played so beautifully. It sounded magical.'

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-Amazing, wasn't it?

-Amazing.

-Melody, we've got to get going,

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the recital starts in a few minutes.

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-We've got to let Cherry get ready. Thank you so much.

-Yeah.

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'I have some friends arriving

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'who are going to listen to the music with me.'

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-Hello, everyone. Are you excited to watch the performance?

-Yes!

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Remember to listen to the music.

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'I wonder what it'll make them think of!

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'I think we're nearly all ready and Fudge too! Hee, hee.'

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We are going to play Piazzolla's Nightclub 1960

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from Histoire du Tango.

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'Cherry isn't playing alone.

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'She's playing with Matt who plays the flute.'

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MUSIC: Nightclub 1960 by Astor Piazzolla

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'I can hear Cherry's fingers moving quickly across the strings.

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'Matt is an excellent flautist.

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'And then I start to imagine...

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'I imagine the beautiful blue bird, flying around.'

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MUSIC SLOWS

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'Oh! He settled down for a moment.'

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BIRD TWEETS

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BIRD SINGS

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'He's looking for something.'

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BIRD TWEETS

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'Look! Another bird, a yellow one.

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'Aw! They found each other and they're flying away.

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'I don't want them to go.'

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'They are dancing in the sky.'

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MUSIC SPEEDS UP 'Oh, that sounds different.

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'The music sounds like claps of thunder now.

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'The poor birds, they don't like the storm.

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'They're flying higher now, into the clear skies.

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'That music really makes my imagination go wild.'

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HARP FLOURISHES

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'The music was amazing. And Cherry played brilliantly.

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'Well done, Cherry and Matt.

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'After the recital,

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'Mum and I go and meet up with our friends who watched it with us.

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'I would like to find out what the music made them think of.'

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-Hello.

-Hello, everybody.

-Hi!

-How are you?

-Good.

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Did you enjoy listening to the piece of music that Cherry played

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-for you on the harp?

-Yes!

-And the flute was played by Matt.

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They were brilliant, they were so good.

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-Would you like to listen again and see what it makes you think of?

-Yes.

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MUSIC: Nightclub 1960 by Astor Piazzolla

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'It wasn't long before Isla had an idea.'

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Like somebody was dancing in the forest.

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Like somebody is skipping through the forest.

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Wow! I could definitely see that forest in my imagination, could you?

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-Yes.

-It made me think of somebody dancing in the middle of nowhere.

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-How were they moving? How were they dancing?

-They were soft dancing.

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Let's listen to the next piece and see what you see this

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time, if it's any different.

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'The next section sounded very different.'

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MUSIC PLAYS SOFTLY

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Right. That was a very different sound, wasn't it?

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I thought it sounded like somebody was searching a castle.

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-Were they rushing through, Freddie?

-No, they were creeping.

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-Creeping, tiptoeing, who could they be, do you think?

-Robbers.

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-Robbers in the castle. That's good. What about you, Ben?

-I saw Egypt.

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You saw Egypt? Yeah.

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Shall we have another listen to that and see if we can see what you

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were seeing in your imaginations.

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SLOW MUSIC PLAYS AGAIN

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'I could really imagine what Freddie had said.'

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I could really see the sun set over Egypt.

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-You could see it just like Ben?

-Yes.

-I loved that idea, it was so good.

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Now we'll listen to the last section to see what it makes you think of.

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LIVELY MUSIC PLAYS

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Evie, what did you see?

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At the start of the music it made me feel like a mermaid jumping up

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-and down the waves and then her tail splits apart and she gets legs.

-Wow!

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Shall we have a listen again and see if we can see your mermaid?

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'I can see the mermaid!'

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SPLASH!

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Wow! What a lot of lovely ideas. Thank you so much.

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You've got brilliant imaginations.

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-We loved them, didn't we?

-Yes, they were all amazing.

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-Thank you.

-Thank you very much.

-Bye.

-Bye!

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'Everybody has different ideas and all from the same music.

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'I love it when so many ideas happen.'

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-So, did you like the ideas that the children had, Melody?

-Yes.

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I didn't think of Egypt and I loved the sunset.

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-Me either, they were brilliant ideas.

-Amazing!

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Isn't it interesting how the same music can make you think of

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different things to different people.

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-Can we listen again, please?

-Go on.

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'I loved all the different ideas my friends had.

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'Egypt, mermaids and even a castle.'

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That music made me think of two beautiful birds.

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What did it make you think of?

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