Year 2
❤️ Autumn 2 ❤️
Song: ‘Bolero’
Composer: Maurice Ravel
Can you spot the instruments? Which instrument family is each one in?
flute and piccolo flute
clarinet and piccolo clarinet
bassoon
oboe
trumpet
tenor saxophone and soprano saxophone (which one has the higher pitch?)
cor anglaise (English horn – looks like a longer oboe)
trumpet
harp
trombone
Let’s watch Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, legendary figure skaters from Nottingham, in their 1984 Olympic Gold Medal winning performance.
Do you recognise the song they are skating to?
Did you know?
Maurice Ravel met Erik Satie and loved his music!
Gabriel Fauré was his composition teacher!
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