Ten Pieces offers a wealth of exciting teaching resources to help you plan lessons and develop imaginative creative responses to the music.
Masterclasses
Watch famous faces give advice and inspiration for getting creative with Ten Pieces in a range of art forms, including top tips from Diversity, Fazer and Fiona Bevan.
Diversity stars explain the creative process of choreographing a dance in five simple steps.
Strange Hill High animator Ric creates stop-motion animation inspired by Mozart's Horn Concerto No. 4 (3rd movement).
Singer-songwriters Fiona and Kal show how a brand new song can be composed in just five simple steps, inspired by Anna Meredith's Connect It.
Dancer Lyndsey Thomas shows how to create a dance inspired by Stravinsky’s The Firebird.
Digital artist Richard Ramchurn shows Barney and friends how to create some digital art inspired by Holst's 'Mars'.
Ricky Martin from Art Ninja creates a painting with sponges while listening to Mussorgsky's Night on Bare Mountain.
Musicians Arun Ghosh and Jason Singh use the clarinet and beatboxing to create a new Grieg-inspired song in simple steps.
Performance poet Chris Redmond goes through the steps of creating a performance poem and uses Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10 as inspiration.
Rapper Doc Brown introduces this clip about Anna Clyne and her creative process.
Professional dancer Lizzie Gough demonstrates how to choreograph a street dance and uses Bach's piece as inspiration.
Award-winning animator Barry Purves explains how to make stop-motion animation inspired by Bernstein's 'Mambo'.
Coding expert Sam Aaron teaches Radio 1 and 1Xtra DJ MistaJam how to code music using computer software.
Director Elisha Smith-Leverock demonstrates how to create a music video inspired by one of the pieces.
Technobabble’s Frankie Vu uses the 鶹Լ micro:bit to make a Haydn-inspired melody.
N-Dubz star Fazer aka Richard Rawson shows us how to compose a new music track inspired by Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5.
World DJ Champion Mr Switch demonstrates how to scratch on turntables.
Live Lessons
Bring Ten Pieces to life with these interactive lessons!
Dance and music inspired by Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker - Live Lesson
Shows student how to create their own original dance moves with help from the Royal Opera House and the Royal Ballet.
Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker – Live Lesson EXTRA
In this EXTRA lesson children learn to make transitions and dance in pairs and groups.
Music composition - Live Lesson
Emotional responses to music and composition with Naomi Wilkinson, Alex James, and the 鶹Լ Philharmonic Orchestra.
Ten Pieces Party Live Lesson
Inspire students to find out how rhythm, melody and dynamics are central to music composition.
Workshops
Experts and students explain what it's like creating new dances, musical compositions and poetry inspired by classical pieces
The performance poet and Ten Pieces star Lemn Sissay inspired home-educated children in London to write poems.
Ten Pieces Ambassador Peter Moore visited the students of West Hill School to run a workshop pn Shostakovich's Symphony No.10.
Songwriter Nitin Sawhney worked with pupils to give them a deeper understanding of Wagner's 'Ride of the Valkyries'.
Students from St John Bosco Arts College get expert advice from a contemporary choreographer using Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10.
More resources
Ten Pieces Tasters
Simple, fun, creative activities for primary age children that are easy to follow and do not require any specialist knowledge or equipment. Each activity is led by an artist or specialist in their field and offers different ways to get creative with classical music.
Ready-made secondary lessons
No time to prepare a lesson? No access to your usual instruments or music room? These videos will enable you to explore aspects of the music curriculum with absolutely no preparation.
BREAKING NEWS: Ten Pieces Special Report
This 30 minute film will introduce your students to pieces of classical music whilst giving you all a good giggle.
All Figurenotes Arrangements
Figurenotes is a simple, progressive way to learn to read and play music which has been designed to enable people with additional support needs.
Ocarina arrangements
The Ocarina Workshop have produced arrangements for Beethoven, Grieg and Mozart for use with English 4-hole and 6-hole ocarinas.
