Session 6: Musical milestones – research and listening activity

Aim
Pupils will learn about songwriting and its development over the last 100 years. They will also note that many of the most famous music artists did not compose their own songs.

Curriculum links:

KS4
Music (listening)
Art
History
Fashion

Introduction

Download the Song timeline – great songwriters of the last 100 years

  “Listen to The Beatles, by all means, but go further back to listen to The Sound of Music and listen to the sophistication of some of the songs by Irving Berlin and people like that, because if you really want to be a songwriter, the nuances and techniques that they used in their songwriting still apply today – much more than we are led to believe.”
Barry Gibb (The Bee Gees)

Click below to listen to "How Deep is Your Love" (This song was covered by Take That in 1996.)