Music Archaeology

Primary schools can access new education resources based on music archaeology research from the University of Huddersfield’s Professor Rupert Till, enabling children to explore the sounds and music of prehistoric and early Roman sites.

The resource pack is based on the Soundgate app which allows users to interactively explore a number of archaeological sites: prehistoric caves in Spain; Stonehenge in England; and Paphos Roman Theatre in Cyprus, as they might have looked and sounded in the ancient past.

Pupils can explore these spaces visually through virtual walk-throughs, images and video, and aurally by hearing musical and natural sounds that may have been heard there in the past. They can hear how the acoustics of these spaces enhances how the spaces are experienced, and how the acoustics change as you move around the site.

The education pack contains a Teacher’s Guide to using the Soundgate app as well as a series of engaging Lesson Plans on topics such as Creating Cave Art and Making Cave Sounds and Music with links to National Curriculum Programmes of Study for music, history and science and other subjects.

The Music Archaeology education resource pack can be downloaded for free from: http://mhm.hud.ac.uk/soundgate/