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The traditional story of Three Billy Goats Gruff is told by Jan Blake accompanied by members of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
The video
Voiceover: Come to a magical place,of fairy tales and adventure.Let the music take you far away,to Musical Storyland.
Jan: Welcome to Musical Storyland with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. My name is Jan and these are my friends and their musical instruments.
Simon: Hello, my name is Simon and I play the Violin.
Fi: My name is Fi and I play the Viola.Jess: My name is Jess and I play the Cello.Nathan: My name is Nathan and I play the Double Bass
Jan: Together, we're going to tell the musical story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff.
Once upon a time, there lived a family of three Billy Goats Gruff.
There was Little Billy Goat, there was Medium Billy Goat, and finally there was Big Billy Goat.
The Three Billy Goats Gruff ate whatever they could find grass, leaves, flowers, weeds. Even the bark of trees.
Then one Sunday afternoon, they ate the very last piece of grass in their field.Oh oh, said Little Billy Goat.
The Three Billy Goats Gruff left the grass in the old field to grow back and went off in search of a new place to eat.
They found a beautiful meadow full of flowers, trees, bees and lots of grass, but it was on the other side of a wet, muddy stream, Little Billy goat spotted a bridge. His little hooves made a gentle trippy-trappy sound as he started to cross it.
Trippy-trappy, trippy- trappy trippy-trappy trippy-trappy trippy-trappy trippy-trappy.
Suddenly, Little Billy Goat heard a grumbling sound from underneath the bridge. He had woken up a hungry, grumpy troll. Who's that trip trapping over my bridge? Who's that trip trapping over my bridge?
Who's that trip trapping over my bridge?Who's that trip trapping over my bridge?
You may cross, said the troll. I'll eat your brother instead. With that Little Billy Goat scampered over the bridge to the luscious green grass of the meadow.
Phew!
Medium Billy Goat started to cross the bridge. His hooves made a louder tripety-trapety sound. Tripety-trapety, tripety-trapety, tripety-trapety. The troll poked her head out from under the bridge, she looked grumpier than ever
Who's that trip trapping over my bridge?Who's that trip trapping over my bridge?Who's that's trip trapping over my bridge?Who's that trip trapping over my bridge?
I'm going to munch you up in a goat sandwich said the troll.Wait for my brother said Medium Billy Goat. He'll be even bigger and tastier than me.
Off you go then grumbled the troll. As she let Medium Billy Goat safely across the bridge.
What an escape!
Big Billy Goat began to cross the bridge. His big hooves made a very loud trip-trap sound.Trip-trap, trip-trap, trip-trap, trip-trap, trip-trap.
The troll woke up once more, the troll was the most angry she had ever been.
Who's that trip trapping over my bridge?Who's that trip trapping over my bridge?Who's that trip trapping over my bridge?Who's that trip trapping over my bridge?
You'll taste nice in a goats stew, cried the troll.
Big Billy Goat charged straight at the troll sending her flying into the muddy stream with a great big squelch.
And so Big Billy Goat went to join his brothers in the meadow. After that day, the Three Billy Goats Gruff lived happily ever after.
The troll decided that rather than goat stew, she preferred the taste of leafy salad. So she was happy to let everyone walk safely across the bridge, but every now and then you could still hear her singing her song from the stream below.
Who's that trip-trapping over my bridge?Who's that trip-trapping over my bridge?Who's that trip-trapping over my bridge?Who's that trip-trapping over my bridge?
Three Billy Goats Gruff
Presenter: Jan Blake
Composer: Daniel Whibley
Instruments: Violin / Viola / Cello / Double bass
Synopsis
A family of three Billy Goats Gruff ate whatever they could find. There was Little Billy Goat, there was Medium Billy Goat, and finally there was Big Billy Goat.
Then one day, they ate the very last piece of grass in their field. The Three Billy Goats Gruff left the grass in the old field to grow back and went off in search of a new place to eat. They found a beautiful meadow full of flowers, trees, bees and lots of grass, but it was on the other side of a wet, muddy stream. Little Billy Goat spotted a bridge and started to cross it.
Suddenly, Little Billy Goat heard a grumbling sound from underneath the bridge. He had woken up a hungry, grumpy troll. She wanted to eat Little Billy Goat, but on hearing about his bigger and tastier brother the troll let him cross. With that Little Billy Goat scampered over the bridge to the luscious green grass of the meadow.
Medium Billy Goat started to cross the bridge. He woke the troll, who poked her head out from under the bridge once again - she looked grumpier than ever. The troll was threatening to eat Medium Billy Goat, but was once again convinced to wait for the bigger and tastier brother, and let Medium Billy Goat cross the bridge.
Big Billy Goat began to cross the bridge. The troll woke up once more, and she was the most angry she had ever been. As she got ready to eat Big Billy Goat he charged straight at the troll, sending her flying into the muddy stream below.
Big Billy Goat went to join his brothers in the meadow. After that day, the Three Billy Goats Gruff lived happily ever after. The troll decided that rather than goat stew, she preferred the taste of leafy salad. So she was happy to let everyone walk safely across the bridge.
Curriculum links
Music
The film and the accompanying Teacher Notes can be used to fulfil the following objectives of the Key Stage 1 music curriculum, which states that pupils should be taught to:
- use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes
- play tuned and untuned instruments musically
- listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music
- experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music.
English
The film and the accompanying Teacher Notes can also be used to target objectives from the Key Stage 1 English curriculum, particularly relating to Spoken language, Reading and Writing.
Resources
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