Ten Pieces Tasters

Join Naomi Wilkinson to explore Ravi Shankar’s Symphony – Finale; learning about Hindustani music, the raga (melody) and tala (rhythm) and also the Banjara people who inspired it.

Photographer Mahtab Hussain challenges you to capture the ideas of raga and tala using your hands, art materials and a camera. Mahtab guides you in embellishing your photographs to represent movement with glitter, shapes and stitching. Get creative with any materials you have available; if you wanted to be extra fancy, you could even use gold leaf like one of Mahtab's examples!

Upload your photographs to the Ten Pieces website for a chance to feature in our online showcase.

Watch Lemn Sissay as he explores Kerry Andrew's piece No Place Like using facts and insight, beautiful animation and footage from the heart of the Ten Pieces Children's Choir.

Angry Dan shows you how to create a rhyming work of art on the theme of “home”.

Upload your artwork to the Ten Pieces website for a chance to feature in our Ten Pieces Tasters online showcase.

Naomi Wilkinson introduces Earth, written especially for Ten Pieces by the world-famous trailblazer Hans Zimmer. Hans talks all about what has inspired him to write this piece.

Claire Medhurst from the National Space Centre talks about the life of an astronaut and challenges you to write a letter to Earth from space.

Upload your letter to the Ten Pieces website for a chance to feature in our online showcase.

Join Lemn Sissay as he explores Tchaikovsky's music from The Nutcracker with beautiful animation.

Follow along with artist Julia Deering as she demonstrates a Nutcracker inspired craft activity. You will need: paper, colouring pencils, scissors and some imagination!

Upload a picture of your paper people for a chance to feature in the Ten Pieces online showcase.

Join Barney Harwood in exploring the music of Beethoven and one of the most famous motifs in musical history. (It has even been used in pop songs!)

Doctor Who composer Segun Akinola explores beginnings and sets a creative challenge based on Beethoven’s famous opening and the start of the BBC Proms.

Upload your creative response to the Ten Pieces website for a chance to feature in our online showcase and on the BBC Proms website.

Join Clara Amfo and Gabriel Prokofiev as they take a ride through Gabriel's mind to see how he composed his Concerto for Turntables and Orchestra!

Learn a table top dance sequence with dancer and choreographer Jordan Douglas and create your own gestures inspired by turntables.

Ask an adult to help you upload your dance performance for a chance to feature in the Ten Pieces online showcase.

Discover the music of Joseph Bologne, the first classical composer of African ancestry. Naomi Wilkinson explores the extraordinary story of a composer who took Paris by storm.

Using these handy journalism tips from Newsround's Hayley Hassall; write and present a news story about Joseph Bologne’s life and achievements.

Ask an adult to help you upload your news story or broadcast for a chance to feature in the Ten Pieces online showcase.

Learn about Mason Bates’ A Bao A Qu from his Anthology of Fantastic Zoology! Author and broadcaster Lemn Sissay explores how his music can inspire creative ideas and powerful pictures in our imaginations.

Join Ivan Brett as you imagine your very own mythical creature and story alongside the BBC Symphony Orchestra. What does your character look like? How do they move? What problems do they face?

Ask an adult to help you upload your story, artwork or book cover for a chance to feature in the Ten Pieces online showcase.

Watch Pixie Lott as she explores romance and revenge in Bernstein's Cuban-inspired piece Mambo from West Side Story.

Join BBC Concert Orchestra percussionist Stephen Whibley as he shows you how to create a Cuban Mambo in your kitchen!

Get an adult to help you upload your percussion extravaganza for a chance to feature in the Ten Pieces at Home online showcase.

Watch Claudia Winkelman as she discovers the magical story that inspired Stravinsky’s soaring music.

See how illustrator James Mayhew uses Stravinsky’s dazzling music performed by BBC NOW to inspire him to draw – watch what he does and then create your own fantastic illustration.

Ask an adult to help you upload your artwork to the Ten Pieces website for a chance to have it featured in the Ten Pieces online showcase!

Watch Doc Brown as he plunges into the darkest depths of the ocean with Anna Clyne's stormy Night Ferry. Discover how she composed her music by picking up a paint brush instead of writing music notes on paper!

Using materials you might find around your home, follow artist Amy Leung's step-by-step guide on how to create a sculpture using Night Ferry to inspire shapes, patterns and textures .

Ask an adult to help you upload a photo of your sculpture to the Ten Pieces website for a chance to have it featured in the Ten Pieces online showcase!

Watch the Ride of the Valkyries introductory film and find out more about Wagner’s epic opera and the mythical Valkyries with Christopher Eccleston.

Explore the character of a Valkyrie and use the music to inspire your own dramatic theatrical performance. What will your Valkyrie look like? Where will they live?

Upload a photo, video or picture of the character you have created. Ask an adult to help you share your work using our Uploader for a chance to have it featured in the Ten Pieces online showcase!

Watch the Ten Pieces introduction film. Naomi Wilkinson explores Sibelius's ode to the vast, majestic landscape of Finland and it's national pride with facts, insight and animation.

Learn and perform the hymn-like theme that appears towards the end of the piece with the BBC Singers! This is the tune to one of the most important national songs in Finland. You might want to pause and rewind parts of the video to practice each line.

Upload your performance or share the words you have written for a chance to have it featured in the Ten Pieces online showcase!

Watch the Ten Pieces introduction film about Elgar’s Enigma Variations. Elgar wrote the variations about his friends, using music to describe people’s characters and creating musical portraits.

Join CBBC’s Naomi Wilkinson and take inspiration from Elgar’s musical portraits. Draw a picture of someone you miss and write about a piece of music that reminds you of them. Send your artwork and music selection to your special person to show they are in your thoughts. You can download the template here or use a blank piece of paper.

Share your picture and musical memory. Ask an adult to help you share your work using our Uploader for a chance to have it featured in the Ten Pieces online showcase! If you want more ways to use music to connect with friends and family visit the BBC Music Memories website.

Explore Music for 18 Musicians with CBBC's Naomi Wilkinson and discover the short motifs, beats, pulses and repeating patterns that make Steve Reich’s music so exciting. You can see the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performing his music alongside students from The National Youth Orchestra of Scotland and The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Get your hands, feet and imaginations ready as we compose our own piece of minimalism! What does the piece remind you of? Can you conjure up a storyline using the music as inspiration?

Share your drawing with us! Or perhaps you've made something like Lucy suggests in the video? Ask an adult to share your work using our handy Uploader below for a chance to have it featured in the Ten Pieces online showcase!

Delve into the musical travels of The Little Train of the Caipira; a piece of music written by Heitor Villa Lobos. His music describes a shuddering, juddering steam train chugging through Brazil and carrying the ‘caipira’ or ‘people of the countryside’ off to pick berries in the fields.

Let your imagination run wild as you follow Simon Mole's step-by-step guide in creating your own poem. Where will you go? What will you see? Who will you meet?

Share your poems with us! We'd love to know what your imagination has conjured - whether in writing or being read aloud! Perhaps you've drawn a map like Simon mentioned in the video. Ask an adult to share your work using our handy Uploader below for a chance to have it featured on the Ten Pieces website!