0:00:02 > 0:00:04# Melody, Melody
0:00:04 > 0:00:07# Listen to the music Let your mind run free
0:00:07 > 0:00:11# Melody, Melody
0:00:11 > 0:00:15# From a castle or the jungle To the Arctic Sea
0:00:15 > 0:00:21# It could be as loud as a storm Or quiet as a sigh
0:00:21 > 0:00:27# As dainty as a dance step Or soaring high in the sky
0:00:27 > 0:00:30# Melody, Melody
0:00:31 > 0:00:36- # The musical imaginings of Melody - And friends. #
0:00:37 > 0:00:40- Let's skip together.- You want to skip together?
0:00:40 > 0:00:44- You and me.- I don't know if I should be skipping together!
0:00:44 > 0:00:48'I'm really excited today, because we're not just meeting one person,
0:00:48 > 0:00:52'we're meeting loads, and they're all singers.
0:00:54 > 0:00:56'They all come here to sing together.
0:01:01 > 0:01:06'I wonder, is your voice a musical instrument?
0:01:06 > 0:01:10'I mean, it doesn't have strings like a guitar and it doesn't have
0:01:10 > 0:01:14'keys like a piano, so what does it have?
0:01:14 > 0:01:16'I suppose I'll have to ask.'
0:01:16 > 0:01:19- Melody...- 'I can hear people practising.'
0:01:19 > 0:01:22..I can hear a harp, can you? Listen.
0:01:22 > 0:01:24HARP PLAYS
0:01:24 > 0:01:26That is nice, isn't it?
0:01:28 > 0:01:29VIOLIN PLAYS
0:01:29 > 0:01:32And can you hear the violin?
0:01:32 > 0:01:33SINGING
0:01:33 > 0:01:36I can hear somebody singing and it sounds like it's coming
0:01:36 > 0:01:39- from over there. - Shall we have a listen?
0:01:39 > 0:01:41Yes, please.
0:01:41 > 0:01:45'Listen. That doesn't sound like a song.'
0:01:45 > 0:01:48THEY SING SCALES
0:01:48 > 0:01:51- Hello!- Hi.- We heard you outside.
0:01:51 > 0:01:55Hello. Thank you so much for letting us come and have a listen to you.
0:01:55 > 0:01:57So you're using your voices and your voices are
0:01:57 > 0:01:59a bit like an instrument, then?
0:01:59 > 0:02:03Yes, you're able to control it and develop it to make it sound
0:02:03 > 0:02:07even better and it's a really good way of expressing your emotions.
0:02:07 > 0:02:10And also the different tones that you can kind of make with
0:02:10 > 0:02:12your voice as well, could you tell us a bit about that?
0:02:12 > 0:02:15Yes, you can make lighter, happier tones and then you can make
0:02:15 > 0:02:17darker, maybe more sad tones as well.
0:02:17 > 0:02:21Although it is part of your body, unlike any other instrument,
0:02:21 > 0:02:25you can use that to your advantage and adapt your voice to whatever
0:02:25 > 0:02:29- expression you're putting forward or what piece you're singing.- I see.
0:02:29 > 0:02:32To show all the different, yeah, emotions of it. Fantastic.
0:02:32 > 0:02:33Do you have to practise lots?
0:02:33 > 0:02:36Oh, yeah, we have to practise almost every day, especially because
0:02:36 > 0:02:41the voice is a muscle, so it's like working out to make it stronger.
0:02:41 > 0:02:44So would you be able to share some of your practice now?
0:02:45 > 0:02:47One, two.
0:02:47 > 0:02:49THEY SING SCALES
0:02:49 > 0:02:51Lovely.
0:02:53 > 0:02:54Loose lips.
0:03:04 > 0:03:07Same again to "mah". One, two.
0:03:07 > 0:03:10THEY SING ASCENDING SCALES
0:03:10 > 0:03:12Let go. Good.
0:03:14 > 0:03:16Up we go.
0:03:23 > 0:03:26- Wow.- Please can I have a go?
0:03:26 > 0:03:30I should think so. Let's do "wah-wah" again.
0:03:30 > 0:03:31One, two.
0:03:31 > 0:03:33THEY SING ASCENDING SCALES
0:03:33 > 0:03:35Lovely.
0:03:46 > 0:03:50- Fantastic.- I didn't know you could sing so well. You kept that from me.
0:03:50 > 0:03:53So is there perhaps something else you could sing for us?
0:03:53 > 0:03:57Let's do Life Is But A Melancholy Flower. OK?
0:03:59 > 0:04:03# Life is but a Life is but a
0:04:03 > 0:04:07# Melancholy flower Melancholy flower
0:04:07 > 0:04:11# Life is but a melan... Life is but a melan...
0:04:11 > 0:04:16# ..choly flower ..choly flower
0:04:16 > 0:04:20# Life is but a melancholy flower
0:04:20 > 0:04:22# ..choly flower. #
0:04:22 > 0:04:24Gosh! That was so good! Thank you so much.
0:04:24 > 0:04:28- We've absolutely loved listening to you.- Thank you.
0:04:28 > 0:04:29But we've got to meet your friends
0:04:29 > 0:04:32and you've got to get ready for the recital, haven't you?
0:04:32 > 0:04:34So we'll let you go, but thank you again.
0:04:34 > 0:04:36'I have some friends arriving who are going to
0:04:36 > 0:04:37'listen to some music with me.
0:04:37 > 0:04:40'I wonder what they will think of.'
0:04:40 > 0:04:43- Hello, everybody.- Hello.
0:04:43 > 0:04:47- Are you excited to listen to some of the lovely music?- ALL:- Yes.
0:04:47 > 0:04:50And when you listen, I'd like you to think about what pictures come into
0:04:50 > 0:04:53your mind and you can close your eyes if you like.
0:04:53 > 0:04:55'I hope they don't fall asleep!'
0:05:00 > 0:05:04Today we will be performing Vocalise by Rachmaninoff.
0:06:05 > 0:06:12'The music is beautiful. It makes me feel like...
0:06:12 > 0:06:16'I'm drifting along on water.
0:06:16 > 0:06:18'Oh, a fish.'
0:07:20 > 0:07:21Something fell in the water!
0:07:25 > 0:07:27Now the fish is chasing it,
0:07:27 > 0:07:29deeper and deeper.
0:07:36 > 0:07:38It's sparkling. It looks like a ring.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21What's this?
0:08:21 > 0:08:22There's a lady.
0:08:27 > 0:08:29I think she's lost something.
0:08:39 > 0:08:41Now a man has arrived.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48They're both looking now,
0:08:48 > 0:08:50but they don't seem to find it.
0:09:08 > 0:09:11The fish has found what they're looking for.
0:09:46 > 0:09:48APPLAUSE
0:09:48 > 0:09:51'That was so beautiful.
0:09:51 > 0:09:54'I didn't want it to end.
0:09:54 > 0:09:58'We all applaud at the end of the show.
0:09:58 > 0:10:02'After the recital, Mum and I go to catch up with our friends.
0:10:02 > 0:10:05'I can't wait for them to tell me what they thought of it.'
0:10:05 > 0:10:11- Hello, everybody.- ALL:- Hello. - Come and sit down.
0:10:11 > 0:10:13It's so nice to see you all again.
0:10:13 > 0:10:17- Did you enjoy listening to the singers that we watched?- ALL:- Yes.
0:10:17 > 0:10:21- I bet it made you think of all sorts of things, didn't it?- ALL:- Yes.
0:10:21 > 0:10:23When I listened to the music,
0:10:23 > 0:10:26it made me feel like I was floating on the river.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29Melody and I were wondering what the music made you think of.
0:10:29 > 0:10:32- Shall we have a listen again?- Yes.
0:10:32 > 0:10:37And when we listen to the music, let your imaginations run free.
0:10:42 > 0:10:44'My friends all listen very carefully.'
0:11:00 > 0:11:04So, Joseph, what did that music make you think of?
0:11:04 > 0:11:06Playing in the foam.
0:11:13 > 0:11:16And what about you, Deacon? What came into your head?
0:11:16 > 0:11:21- A bird soaring in the air.- A bird?
0:11:21 > 0:11:24- Were you flying or were you kind of in a tree?- Flying.- You're flying.
0:11:24 > 0:11:28- Where were you flying? Were you soaring quite high or...?- High.
0:11:28 > 0:11:30High through the sky.
0:11:41 > 0:11:45- So, Seb, did it make you think of anything different?- A fairy.
0:11:45 > 0:11:48Yeah, because it's quite pretty music, isn't it?
0:11:54 > 0:11:56What about you, Ruby?
0:11:56 > 0:12:00I was on a cloud and birds were flying around the cloud.
0:12:06 > 0:12:09- And, Izzy? - I was an angel floating in the sky.
0:12:16 > 0:12:19I was outside my house then loads of birds came down
0:12:19 > 0:12:23- and I jumped onto them and then went flying in the sky.- Did you?
0:12:23 > 0:12:26- So these were giant birds, were they?- No...
0:12:26 > 0:12:29- Or were you mini? Did you shrink? - Yeah.- You were flying on a bird.
0:12:29 > 0:12:32Mini you going around in a bird.
0:12:32 > 0:12:35Jess, did that make you think of anything in your imagination?
0:12:35 > 0:12:40It made me feel like I was on holiday on the beach
0:12:40 > 0:12:42having fun with my family.
0:12:49 > 0:12:54So that piece of music was actually really, really soft and graceful,
0:12:54 > 0:12:57which is why we all kind of thought of birds and flying.
0:12:57 > 0:12:59Thank you, everybody, for your wonderful imaginations.
0:12:59 > 0:13:03We've loved listening to your ideas, but we've got to go now,
0:13:03 > 0:13:06- so we'll see you soon. Take care. - Bye. See you soon.- Bye.
0:13:06 > 0:13:13'Everybody has different ideas, but it's all for the same music.
0:13:13 > 0:13:17'I love it when music gives everyone lots of ideas.'
0:13:17 > 0:13:20- I loved it. - Careful coming over here.
0:13:21 > 0:13:26Oh! Well, they were really interesting ideas, weren't they?
0:13:26 > 0:13:30Yes. Birds, angels - they were all flying things.
0:13:30 > 0:13:34Well, the same piece of music can mean lots of different things
0:13:34 > 0:13:37- to different people.- Mummy, can we listen to it again, please?
0:13:37 > 0:13:41- Of course you can. - 'I loved hearing all the ideas.'
0:13:41 > 0:13:46That music made us think of birds, angels and holidays.
0:13:46 > 0:13:50And it made me think of a fish swimming in the water.
0:13:50 > 0:13:53What did it make you think of?