Music Workshop Stage Two

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📻BBC Schools Radio

companyBBC

started20th Sep 1966

ended19th Jun 1974

last rpt18th Jun 1975

9 school years

episodes200

duration20 mins; 10 mins; 30 mins

subject 🎶Music

age rangeAge 10-13Age 9-11 & Age 11-13

languageenIn English

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BBC Primary Music for Upper PrimaryNext series: Music Makers

Music Workshop Stage Two is a BBC Schools Radio series from the 1960s & 1970s, covering music for primary and secondary school pupils.

A series using traditional songs and melodies, generally with newly written lyrics and arrangements, to encourage listeners to join in with singing and playing instruments. Each term's songs and poems link to a particular theme or story, and build into a cantata that could be performed at the end of term. The termly theme, often linked to a particular country or area, gives scope for further creative work in the classroom.

History

Music Workshop Stage Two (or Stage II or Stage 2) developed from the original Music Workshop series which had begun in 1964. While Music Workshop Stage Two was on air the original series was known as Music Workshop Stage One.

Stage Two was introduced in 1966 to cater for almost exactly the same audience as Stage One, the two series existing side-by-side to offer a two year course for teachers of 8-10 year-olds with Stage Two steered slightly older towards 9-10 year-olds.

Then in 1970 the series were separated so that the original Music Workshop (Stage One) continued to serve 8-10 year-olds, while Music Workshop Stage Two was shifted to support 10-13 year-olds in the top years of primary school and the first years of middle or secondary schools. This separation was successful and created a new audience for BBC School Radio's music programmes.

The separation was completed in 1975 when Music Workshop Stage Two was relaunched as Music Makers, and the Stage One series returned to being called simply Music Workshop.

Originally both Music Workshop series were broadcast twice a week, with each having a 20 minute programme at the start of the week focussing on singing the songs, and then a 10 minute Follow Up programme on Thursdays which covered percussion, composition and other creative work on the same songs. Teachers could choose to follow only the singing programmes, or if they were more confident in creative follow-up they could also take the Follow Up programmes later in the week.

In 1969 Music Workshop Stage One brought together the two separate programmes into a single 30 minute weekly broadcast, and in 1970 Music Workshop Stage Two did the same. There was still a distinct point around 15-20 minutes into each broadcast when the presenter moved from singing (Music) to percussion and other follow-up work (Workshop) but all contained in a single broadcast.

Episode Guide

Year	Autumn	Spring	Summer
1966-67	Autumn 1966My Idea	Spring 1967Baldy Bane	Summer 1967The Truthful Transistor
1966-67
1967-68	Autumn 1967My Idea	Spring 1968Baldy Bane	Summer 1968The Truthful Transistor
1967-68
1968-69	Autumn 1968December Fair	Spring 1969Twm Shon Cati	Summer 1969Konrad of the Mountains
1968-69
1969-70	Autumn 1969December Fair	Spring 1970Twm Shon Cati	Summer 1970Konrad of the Mountains
1969-70
1970-71	Autumn 1970Mutiny on the Cutty Sark	Spring 1971The Pennine Way	Summer 1971Another Shore
1970-71
1971-72	Autumn 1971América Latina	Spring 1972Paris Under Gaslight	Summer 1972Hagoromo
1971-72
1972-73	Autumn 1972Mutiny on the Cutty Sark	Spring 1973The Pennine Way	Summer 1973Another Shore
1972-73
1973-74	Autumn 1973Taliesin	Spring 1974Kirsty Mhor	Summer 1974The Horse Trough
1973-74
1974-75	Autumn 1974América Latina	Spring 1975Paris Under Gaslight	Summer 1975Hagoromo
1974-75

Broadcasts

Year	Term	Tue	Wed	Thu	Channel
1966-67	Autumn 1966, Spring & Summer 1967	Tuesday, 11:20am		Thursday, 10:50am	Home
1967-68	Autumn 1967, Spring & Summer 1968	Tuesday, 11:20am		Thursday, 10:50am	Home
1968-69	Autumn 1968, Spring & Summer 1969	Tuesday, 11:20am		Thursday, 10:50am	Radio 4
1969-70	Autumn 1969, Spring & Summer 1970		Wednesday, 2:00pm	Thursday, 10:50am	Radio 4
1970-71	Autumn 1970, Spring & Summer 1971		Wednesday, 9:45am		Radio 4
1971-72	Autumn 1971, Spring & Summer 1972		Wednesday, 10:30am		Radio 4
1972-73	Autumn 1972, Spring & Summer 1973		Wednesday, 10:30am		Radio 4
1973-74	Autumn 1973, Spring & Summer 1974		Wednesday, 10:00am		Radio 4 VHF
1974-75	Autumn 1974, Spring & Summer 1975		Wednesday, 10:00am		Radio 4 VHF

Credits

Presenter	John Huw Davies
Producer	William Murphy (1966-74) and Peter Hutchings (1974)

Resources

There were pupils' pamphlets and teacher's notes available for each term.

In addition, the 1971/73 unit Another Shore was accompanied by a short record to aid French pronunciation, and the 1972/75 units Paris Under Gaslight and Hagoromo were accompanied by packs of slides showing relevant artwork.

Links

Fynevue: Music WorkshopDetails and lovely reminscences of programmes from the turn of the 1970s
Music Workshop ArchiveEpisode details and pictures of all the pamphlets from Music Workshop broadcasts across the years.

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Music Workshop (1964-2009)

Music Workshop Stage One • Music Workshop Stage Two

1960s: Aladdin (1969) • Baldy Bane (1967, Stage 2) • The Big Top (1966) • Dagobert the Dachshund (1965) • December Fair (1968, Stage 2) • Don Carlos the Brave (1967) • The Four Friends (1964) • Hugo's Haunt (1966) • The Island People (1968) • Konrad of the Mountains (1969, Stage 2) • My Idea (1966, Stage 2) • The Old Grandfather Clock (1965) • Our School (1965) • Three O'Clock Grandad (1968) • The Truthful Transistor (1967, Stage 2) • Twm Shon Cati (1969, Stage 2)

1970s: Aesop (1973) • Alice (1972) • América Latina (1971, Stage 2) • Another Shore (1971, Stage 2) • The Bluebird Line (1970) • Caractacus Turniptop's Space Adventure (1979) • Chaos at Crusty Towers (1978) • Chockerbox (1970) • Colour Me Cornwall (1973) • Hagoromo (1972, Stage 2) • The Horse Trough (1974, Stage 2) • Journey Through Badlidrempt (1974) • Kirsty Mhor (1974, Stage 2) • Mrs Noah's Missing (1979) • Mutiny on the Cutty Sark (1970, Stage 2) • Nonsense (1975) • Paris Under Gaslight (1972, Stage 2) • The Pennine Way (1971, Stage 2) • Rainbow Snake (1975) • Return to Badlidrempt (1978) • Rumpelstiltskin (1978) • Songs of Stephen Foster (1975) • Taliesin (1973, Stage 2) • The Tinder Box (1977) • The Tree (1971) • The Violin-Maker (1970) • The Wild West (1971)

1980s: Aladdin (1989) • The Bearded Bride (1982) • Bowater Merryweather and the Chemifizz Catastrophe (1988) • Brer Rabbit (1983) • Cinderella? (1986) • The Great Numbers Shenanigan (1986) • The Man in the White Hat (1988-1991) • The Montgolfiers' Famous Flying Globe (1983) • An Odd Odyssey (1987) • Ol' Brer Rabbit Again! (1986) • Piper's Mountain (1987) • Queen Beryl and the Romans (1982) • Sir Spence and a Dragon Called Horace (1981) • The Sleeping Beauty (1985) • Up the Beanstalk! (1987) • Will Wanderers Win? (1982)

1990s: After Alice (1991) • Bugsy Malone (1995) • Christopher Columbus (1992) • David Copperfield (1999) • Down at the End of the Pier (1994) • The Enchanted Horse (1990) • Jazzamatazz (1994) • Jiving Jukeboxes (1995) • Lights, Camera... Action! (1997) • A Merrie Masque (1993) • Musithon! (1993) • Not Aloud (1998) • Orpheus (1995) • Pimlico Drudge and the Upside-Down Pyramid of Shal-Labal-La-Ding-Dong (1990) • Roadshow (1992) • Sherlock Holmes and the Rogues' Gallery (1994) • Trolls (1993) • We'll Meet Again (1998) • Yanomamo (1992)

2000s: Heroes of Troy (2009) • Macbeth (2004) • A Midsummer Night's Dream (2001) • Romeo and Juliet (2007) • The Tempest (2005) • Treasure Island (2006)

See Also: Music: Key Stage 2 • Music Makers • The Song Tree • Time and Tune

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