Clarinet 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... #

WHALE SINGS

# 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

# Listen to the music

# Let your mind run free

# Melody, Melody

# The musical imaginings of Melody. #

And friends!

'My friends all play the clarinet.

'Four clarinettists.

'They're called a quartet.

'I can't wait to hear them play all together.

'We can hear lots of musicians playing in the school,

'but I wonder which one is the clarinet.'

-FLUTE PLAYS

-I can hear the flute. Can you?

Do-do-do-do-roo. SINGING

-And...

-I can hear singing.

-Yes.

-BOTH:

-La-la-la-la-la-la-la.

-Very nice.

-CLARINET PLAYS

Oh, Melody. I can hear the clarinet.

So can I. Let's go! All right.

Come on, then. This way.

CLARINETS PLAY

'These are my friends practising on their clarinets.

'They sound so good.'

Hello, everybody. That sounded amazing.

Thank you for letting us come and see your lovely clarinets.

Rachel, tell us about the clarinet.

The clarinet was invented about 300 years ago.

Wow.

It was made of boxwood. At the time, it only had about two keys.

So we've got about 20 now but, at the time,

-there were just two.

-Only two?

-Only two, yeah.

-Wow!

About 100 years later, they started making it out of

grenadilla wood,

and they added all the keys and this is the clarinet we have today.

Lily, can you tell us how you make the sound?

The clarinet is played by blowing through the

mouthpiece and then moving your fingers to change the pitch.

Like this.

SHE PLAYS

'Nice playing, Lily.

'Lily then shows us what they use

'to blow with to make the sound.

'It's called a reed.'

-It's like a lolly stick.

-Yeah.

-Can I have a go?

-I'll blow and you can move the keys.

-Will that be OK?

'I press the buttons as Lily plays. The buttons are called the keys.'

CLARINET SQUEAKS 'Whoops, I think I need

'more practice.'

SHE LAUGHS

Amazing.

Tom, are there different types of moods you can play?

There are lots of different moods

you can play on the clarinet. I can play something that's

-quite light and bouncy and warm.

-HE PLAYS HAPPY MUSIC

That was lovely. Really nice, really light.

-Made you feel really happy, didn't it?

-Bouncy.

-Are there any

-other moods you can play, Michael?

-Yes, we can play sad.

I'll play in the lower register.

HE PLAYS SAD MUSIC

-That was amazing.

-A completely different tone.

We heard you doing a little piece from the recital.

Would we be able to hear a little bit of it?

-Yes, of course.

-Thank you.

MUSIC: Caprice For Clarinets by Clare Grundman

'Wow, they sound amazing together!'

Really, really good.

We're going to have to get going...

'And we will see them soon at the performance.'

-Good luck!

-Thank you so much.

-Good luck!

-Bye-bye. See you.

'Mummy, Fudge and I meet our friends.

'They're here to watch the show with us.'

-ALL:

-Hello!

-Hello. So are you ready to listen to some music?

-ALL:

-Yes!

-It's fun using your imagination.

-That's right, so when you listen

to the music, see what stories come into your mind.

I wonder what the music will make you think of.

'The show is about to begin. I'm so excited. And my friends are too.'

Hello, everybody. Today, we're going to play you

Clare Grundman's Caprice For Clarinets.

I hope you enjoy.

MUSIC: Caprice For Clarinets by Clare Grundman

'The clarinets sound amazing.

'They're playing together so beautifully.

'I start to use my imagination.'

MUSIC CONTINUES

'Aw, a happy bunny rabbit. He looks so cute.

'He is having a lot of fun hopping around the fields where he lives.

'The happy bunny hasn't hopped

'so far away from home before.

'He wants to get back home.

'Oh, no! The happy bunny is lost.'

SAD MUSIC PLAYS

BIRD SINGS

'Oh, there's a robin.'

Boing! Boing! Boing!

'The robin sees the happy bunny.

'He doesn't look very happy now.

'The robin asks him what's the matter.

'The bunny tells the robin he is lost.

'And he can't find his way back home.'

HAPPY MUSIC PLAYS

'The robin says he will help the bunny find his way home.

'Aw, what a friendly robin.

'The robin guides the happy bunny all the way home.

'Aw, he is a very happy bunny again.

'Thank you, robin.

'Wow, the music was so good.

'The wind quartet was amazing.

'We go to meet our friends who watched the show with us.'

-Hello, everybody.

-ALL:

-Hello!

Did you like listening to the wind quartet?

-ALL:

-Yes.

-Did you?

-I thought the clarinet was really good, wasn't it?

-ALL:

-Yes.

It made me think of a rabbit who got lost

and a robin helped him get home.

Oh, that's really nice.

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

-Shall we listen again?

-ALL:

-Yes.

'Mummy plays the music back for us all to listen to again.

'I can't wait to hear what the music makes my friends think of.'

MUSIC PLAYS

It made me think of the wind blowing and...

..a bird swooping through the wind.

-The wind blowing. What was it blowing through?

-A storm.

The music made me think of, like,

the wind blowing and a butterfly flapping its wings.

It made a really nice tune and it was a really hot day too.

Wow, that's lovely.

It's amazing that both of you thought of the wind in yours.

Interesting, cos the clarinet is actually a wind instrument.

Shall we listen to the next part?

SAD MUSIC PLAYS

'I love closing my eyes when I listen to the music.

'It helps me to imagine lots of different things.'

Talicia, what did that make you think of?

A fairy was fluttering its wings.

It was trying to get somewhere, like,

into a shelter cos it was raining.

'Aw, I'm glad the fairy found shelter.'

Evan, I wonder if you saw anything different in your imagination?

There was a squirrel that was trying to get out of the snow,

but then he got covered by it in the winter, and he had nothing to eat.

And then it started to rise and the sunrise turned it into summer.

And then, he got up to his tree and ate all his nuts.

'What a cute squirrel!'

It was a slower piece of music, that piece, wasn't it?

Shall we have a listen to the next part?

HAPPY MUSIC PLAYS

'Great dancing, Marcus.'

Right, that was the last little section, there, so, Hannah,

what did that make you think of?

It made me think of a fox lost in the woods.

A fox lost in the woods? What else was he doing in the woods?

He was wandering around trying to get food.

Let's have a listen again and see if we can see what you saw.

MUSIC PLAYS

Look! There's a baby bird who had lost its mum and it was

flying, but it couldn't fly before so it was really trying to fly.

Every time the music was going down, the bird was going down.

But then, at the end, he was able to fly.

And he found his mum at the end.

That's lovely. Isn't it brilliant?

Our imaginations come up with different things.

And that's absolutely fine. Well, thank you!

We've loved listening to your ideas. They were all brilliant.

And don't forget to keep using your amazing imagination!

-ALL:

-Bye!

-See you.

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

'It's fun to use our imaginations together.'

Did you like the ideas the other children had, Melody?

-Yes, I loved them all.

-Oh, me too.

The same piece of music can mean lots of

different things to different people.

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

-Of course you can.

Here you go.

That music made me think of a bunny rabbit who got lost.

What did it make you think of?