0:00:02 > 0:00:05# Melody, Melody
0:00:05 > 0:00:08# Listen to the music, let your mind run free
0:00:08 > 0:00:10# Melody, Melody
0:00:10 > 0:00:15# From a castle or the jungle to the Arctic Sea
0:00:15 > 0:00:18# It could be as loud as a storm
0:00:18 > 0:00:21# Or quiet as a sigh
0:00:21 > 0:00:24# As dainty as a dance step
0:00:24 > 0:00:27# Or soaring high in the sky
0:00:27 > 0:00:30# Melody, Melody
0:00:30 > 0:00:33# Listen to the music, let your mind run free
0:00:33 > 0:00:37# Melody, Melody
0:00:37 > 0:00:41# The musical imaginings of Melody. #
0:00:41 > 0:00:43And friends!
0:00:46 > 0:00:51Today Mum and I are going to the school to meet some friends.
0:00:51 > 0:00:55I skip with excitement as we walk up to the doors.
0:00:57 > 0:01:01This is my friend Cherry and she plays the harp.
0:01:03 > 0:01:06MUSIC PLAYS
0:01:09 > 0:01:13- Oh! Oh, Melody, I can hear a harp. - It's lovely.
0:01:13 > 0:01:18It's really dreamlike, it's really nice. Shall we go and have a listen?
0:01:18 > 0:01:20Yes, please. Let's go.
0:01:22 > 0:01:25- Ah!- Hello.- Hello, Cherry.- Hello.
0:01:25 > 0:01:29Thank you so much for letting us come in and see your harp.
0:01:29 > 0:01:33- Melody, what do you think of the harp?- Wow.- It's amazing, isn't it?
0:01:33 > 0:01:37And all these lovely strings you've got coming down here.
0:01:37 > 0:01:39They've got different colours. Why is that?
0:01:39 > 0:01:42So we don't get confused. There's too much string.
0:01:42 > 0:01:45This one is C. All the red ones are always C.
0:01:45 > 0:01:50- Yeah.- And all the black ones are F. - They are different notes.- Yeah.
0:01:50 > 0:01:55- In between C and F, that's D and E. G-A-B.- Do you want to pull them?
0:01:55 > 0:01:56Yeah, go ahead.
0:01:56 > 0:01:58Wow! It makes that vibration and
0:01:58 > 0:02:01all these little bits up here, what do they do?
0:02:01 > 0:02:05Those are for the pedals, they're connected to the pedals.
0:02:05 > 0:02:08There's three different sounds for each string.
0:02:08 > 0:02:11SHE PLAYS THREE NOTES
0:02:11 > 0:02:14- Wow!- Yeah. - The shape is quite amazing.
0:02:14 > 0:02:17It almost looks like a ship or something.
0:02:17 > 0:02:21In olden times, people used to hunt using bows and arrows
0:02:21 > 0:02:24and when the string was fired from the bow,
0:02:24 > 0:02:27it made quite a nice sound, so they thought they would add more
0:02:27 > 0:02:31strings and the bow gradually expanded and became the harp.
0:02:31 > 0:02:35- Wow!- So it's literally from a bow and arrow. It became the harp. Wow!
0:02:35 > 0:02:40'Cherry asked if I wanted a go. I couldn't wait.'
0:02:40 > 0:02:42OK. Sit down.
0:02:42 > 0:02:45- All right.- That's good. - Don't want to squash you!
0:02:45 > 0:02:48'The harp was bigger than I was!'
0:02:48 > 0:02:52- It might be a bit big for you. - It's huge, isn't it?- Yeah.
0:02:52 > 0:02:55- Twice the size of you. - If you just strum.
0:02:55 > 0:02:58Have a go at strumming. We're holding on. Oh!
0:02:58 > 0:03:03It's like angel music. Cherry, would you be able to play for us?
0:03:03 > 0:03:08- Of course, yes.- Shall we have a listen?- Yes, please.- OK.- OK.
0:03:08 > 0:03:13- Just come back and sit by Cherry so you can see...- All the cool things.
0:03:13 > 0:03:16SHE STRUMS
0:03:16 > 0:03:19- Wow!- Here you can make harmonic.
0:03:19 > 0:03:21SHE PLAYS THREE NOTES
0:03:21 > 0:03:25You can make it the same pitch as this - and there's this.
0:03:25 > 0:03:26- Ah, when you pull up.- Yeah.
0:03:26 > 0:03:31- How do you play it on your fingers, do you get different effects?- Yes.
0:03:31 > 0:03:34If you play like this, but you can also play with your nails.
0:03:34 > 0:03:36On your nails, oh!
0:03:36 > 0:03:38Make this sound.
0:03:38 > 0:03:42- Can you hear the difference?- Yes. - It's a bit sharper.- Yes.- Twangy.
0:03:42 > 0:03:46- A twang sound.- And here's what's called the xylophone noise.
0:03:46 > 0:03:49HIGH PINGING
0:03:49 > 0:03:51- Ahhh.- You see the difference?- Yes.
0:03:51 > 0:03:55So it's whether or not you're letting the strings ring or keeping
0:03:55 > 0:03:59them quite tight which is great. Could you try another? Is it called
0:03:59 > 0:04:03- a gliss when you played it?- Yes. - CHERRY PLAYS GLISSANDO
0:04:03 > 0:04:04Wow!
0:04:04 > 0:04:07- The floor's vibrating. - It's like we're in heaven.
0:04:07 > 0:04:10It's beautiful. Thank you so much.
0:04:10 > 0:04:13'Now, Cherry is going to play something for us.'
0:04:13 > 0:04:17SHE PLAYS A PRETTY TUNE
0:04:44 > 0:04:48'Cherry played so beautifully. It sounded magical.'
0:04:48 > 0:04:52- Amazing, wasn't it?- Amazing. - Melody, we've got to get going,
0:04:52 > 0:04:55the recital starts in a few minutes.
0:04:55 > 0:04:58- We've got to let Cherry get ready. Thank you so much.- Yeah.
0:04:58 > 0:05:00'I have some friends arriving
0:05:00 > 0:05:03'who are going to listen to the music with me.'
0:05:03 > 0:05:08- Hello, everyone. Are you excited to watch the performance?- Yes!
0:05:08 > 0:05:11Remember to listen to the music.
0:05:11 > 0:05:14'I wonder what it'll make them think of!
0:05:16 > 0:05:20'I think we're nearly all ready and Fudge too! Hee, hee.'
0:05:25 > 0:05:29We are going to play Piazzolla's Nightclub 1960
0:05:29 > 0:05:30from Histoire du Tango.
0:05:30 > 0:05:34'Cherry isn't playing alone.
0:05:34 > 0:05:37'She's playing with Matt who plays the flute.'
0:05:39 > 0:05:43MUSIC: Nightclub 1960 by Astor Piazzolla
0:06:10 > 0:06:15'I can hear Cherry's fingers moving quickly across the strings.
0:06:18 > 0:06:21'Matt is an excellent flautist.
0:06:28 > 0:06:31'And then I start to imagine...
0:06:34 > 0:06:39'I imagine the beautiful blue bird, flying around.'
0:06:39 > 0:06:41MUSIC SLOWS
0:06:46 > 0:06:48'Oh! He settled down for a moment.'
0:06:48 > 0:06:51BIRD TWEETS
0:07:01 > 0:07:04BIRD SINGS
0:07:11 > 0:07:14'He's looking for something.'
0:07:22 > 0:07:24BIRD TWEETS
0:07:35 > 0:07:38'Look! Another bird, a yellow one.
0:07:44 > 0:07:49'Aw! They found each other and they're flying away.
0:07:49 > 0:07:51'I don't want them to go.'
0:08:20 > 0:08:23'They are dancing in the sky.'
0:08:33 > 0:08:36MUSIC SPEEDS UP 'Oh, that sounds different.
0:08:36 > 0:08:39'The music sounds like claps of thunder now.
0:08:39 > 0:08:43'The poor birds, they don't like the storm.
0:08:43 > 0:08:47'They're flying higher now, into the clear skies.
0:08:49 > 0:08:53'That music really makes my imagination go wild.'
0:08:57 > 0:09:00HARP FLOURISHES
0:09:06 > 0:09:11'The music was amazing. And Cherry played brilliantly.
0:09:11 > 0:09:13'Well done, Cherry and Matt.
0:09:16 > 0:09:18'After the recital,
0:09:18 > 0:09:22'Mum and I go and meet up with our friends who watched it with us.
0:09:22 > 0:09:27'I would like to find out what the music made them think of.'
0:09:33 > 0:09:38- Hello.- Hello, everybody.- Hi! - How are you?- Good.
0:09:38 > 0:09:42Did you enjoy listening to the piece of music that Cherry played
0:09:42 > 0:09:46- for you on the harp?- Yes! - And the flute was played by Matt.
0:09:46 > 0:09:49They were brilliant, they were so good.
0:09:49 > 0:09:54- Would you like to listen again and see what it makes you think of?- Yes.
0:09:54 > 0:09:57MUSIC: Nightclub 1960 by Astor Piazzolla
0:10:01 > 0:10:04'It wasn't long before Isla had an idea.'
0:10:04 > 0:10:08Like somebody was dancing in the forest.
0:10:12 > 0:10:17Like somebody is skipping through the forest.
0:10:22 > 0:10:27Wow! I could definitely see that forest in my imagination, could you?
0:10:27 > 0:10:34- Yes.- It made me think of somebody dancing in the middle of nowhere.
0:10:34 > 0:10:38- How were they moving? How were they dancing?- They were soft dancing.
0:10:38 > 0:10:42Let's listen to the next piece and see what you see this
0:10:42 > 0:10:44time, if it's any different.
0:10:44 > 0:10:48'The next section sounded very different.'
0:10:48 > 0:10:51MUSIC PLAYS SOFTLY
0:10:56 > 0:11:00Right. That was a very different sound, wasn't it?
0:11:00 > 0:11:04I thought it sounded like somebody was searching a castle.
0:11:04 > 0:11:08- Were they rushing through, Freddie? - No, they were creeping.
0:11:08 > 0:11:11- Creeping, tiptoeing, who could they be, do you think?- Robbers.
0:11:11 > 0:11:17- Robbers in the castle. That's good. What about you, Ben?- I saw Egypt.
0:11:17 > 0:11:19You saw Egypt? Yeah.
0:11:19 > 0:11:23Shall we have another listen to that and see if we can see what you
0:11:23 > 0:11:25were seeing in your imaginations.
0:11:25 > 0:11:28SLOW MUSIC PLAYS AGAIN
0:11:31 > 0:11:36'I could really imagine what Freddie had said.'
0:11:57 > 0:12:00I could really see the sun set over Egypt.
0:12:00 > 0:12:04- You could see it just like Ben?- Yes. - I loved that idea, it was so good.
0:12:04 > 0:12:10Now we'll listen to the last section to see what it makes you think of.
0:12:10 > 0:12:14LIVELY MUSIC PLAYS
0:12:31 > 0:12:33Evie, what did you see?
0:12:33 > 0:12:37At the start of the music it made me feel like a mermaid jumping up
0:12:37 > 0:12:42- and down the waves and then her tail splits apart and she gets legs.- Wow!
0:12:42 > 0:12:46Shall we have a listen again and see if we can see your mermaid?
0:12:46 > 0:12:48'I can see the mermaid!'
0:12:48 > 0:12:50SPLASH!
0:12:58 > 0:13:02Wow! What a lot of lovely ideas. Thank you so much.
0:13:02 > 0:13:05You've got brilliant imaginations.
0:13:05 > 0:13:08- We loved them, didn't we? - Yes, they were all amazing.
0:13:08 > 0:13:12- Thank you. - Thank you very much.- Bye.- Bye!
0:13:12 > 0:13:17'Everybody has different ideas and all from the same music.
0:13:17 > 0:13:20'I love it when so many ideas happen.'
0:13:20 > 0:13:25- So, did you like the ideas that the children had, Melody?- Yes.
0:13:25 > 0:13:28I didn't think of Egypt and I loved the sunset.
0:13:28 > 0:13:31- Me either, they were brilliant ideas.- Amazing!
0:13:31 > 0:13:34Isn't it interesting how the same music can make you think of
0:13:34 > 0:13:37different things to different people.
0:13:37 > 0:13:39- Can we listen again, please? - Go on.
0:13:39 > 0:13:42'I loved all the different ideas my friends had.
0:13:42 > 0:13:45'Egypt, mermaids and even a castle.'
0:13:45 > 0:13:49That music made me think of two beautiful birds.
0:13:49 > 0:13:51What did it make you think of?