Special Workshops 2011-12

A number of workshops are available: -

Technology Workshops

10am/12.45pm

Subjects covered: History, Technology, Music.

Two hours of workshops where pupils are given an insight into how the technology of an organ works.

During the workshops they will:

Find out how an early English organ is played and works using the Wethering sett organ
Find out how different sounds are generated using the Wingfield instrument, organ pipes and their own instruments (if pupils can bring them)
Make their own wind instrument out of junk.

The Organ in History

10am/12.45pm

Subjects covered: History, Music, PE.

Two hours of time travel where pupils are given the chance to explore 1525, 1766, 1929 from the perspective of the organ and its music.

In each time period they will have the chance to see the costumes of the time and try some on.
They will listen to a variety of music of the time played on the organ.
They will learn how people lived at this time.
Finally they will have the opportunity to learn a dance of the time!

Music and Singing through Time

10am/12.45pm

Subjects covered: History, Music, RE

Two hours of discovering the different musical styles of 1525, 1766, and 1929, and learning the songs both sacred and folk of the time.

Each historical organ will accompany pupils in the songs that the organ was built to play.
Pupils will have a chance to compare secular and sacred music as well as discover that the influences they had on each other.
Pupils will have an opportunity to hear one piece of music in three styles, try out singing medieval plain song, responsorial singing (18th Century Metrical Palm) and a 1920’s Sunday School hymn.

Technology Workshops

10am/12.45pm

Subjects covered: History, Technology, Music.

Two hours of workshops where pupils are given an insight into how the technology of an organ works.

During the workshops they will:

 Find out how an early English organ is played and works using the Wethering sett organ (pictured below)

 Find out how different sounds are generated using the Wingfield instrument, organ pipes and their own instruments (if pupils can bring them)

 Make their own wind instrument out of junk.

The Organ in History

10am/12.45pm

Subjects covered: History, Music, PE.

Two hours of time travel where pupils are given the chance to explore 1525, 1766, 1929 from the perspective of the organ and its music.

 In each time period they will have the chance to see the costumes of the time and try some on.

 They will listen to a variety of music of the time played on the organ.

 They will learn how people lived at this time.

 Finally they will have the opportunity to learn a dance of the time!

Music and Singing through Time

10am/12.45pm

Subjects covered: History, Music, RE

Two hours of discovering the different musical styles of 1525, 1766, and 1929, and learning the songs both sacred and folk of the time.

 Each historical organ will accompany pupils in the songs that the organ was built to play.

 Pupils will have a chance to compare secular and sacred music as well as discover that the influences they had on each other.

 Pupils will have an opportunity to hear one piece of music in three styles, try out singing medieval plain song, responsorial singing (18th Century Metrical Palm) and a 1920’s Sunday School hymn.

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