Built On The Clyde

Teaching Resources

Welcome to the teaching resources for our wonderful production of Built On The Clyde. 

On this page, you will find all the recordings and teaching films you need to prepare for your performance. 

Read the  Character Group FAQs first to see which songs you must perform. Please make sure you know which character group your pupils are singing in before you begin to use these tracks. 

Character Groups FAQ

What are the character groups for Built On The Clyde?

As part of the performance, your school pupils will be assigned to one of three character groups:

  • Citizens Group
  • Workers Group
  • Landmark Group

It’s essential that the children know the songs and movements fully to give the best possible performance. Please contact us if you are having any problems with this.

Your school should learn three songs in total; two songs that the entire cast sings and one song that is performed only by a single character group.

The same applies for the learning the moves that accompany the songs using the teaching videos. All three groups learn the moves for Song 1 and Song 5, but each character group only learn the moves that go with their specific character song.

Please read the answers below to know which character group your pupils are singing in before you begin to use these tracks.

Citizens Group - What songs do I learn?

If your pupils have been assigned to the Citizens Group for the performance, you must learn the following songs:

Song 1: Our City

Song 2: People Make Glasgow

Song 5: That's What Glasgow Means To Me

Your school should learn three songs in total; two songs that the entire cast sings and one song that is performed only by a single character group.

Your school's character group solo is Song 2: People Make Glasgow. 

All three character groups sing Song 1 and Song 5.

The same applies for learning the moves that accompany the songs using the teaching videos. All three groups learn the moves for Song 1 and Song 5, but each character group only learn the moves that go with their specific character song.

Workers Group - What songs do I learn?

If your pupils have been assigned to the Workers Group for the performance, you must learn the following songs:

Song 1: Our City

Song 3: Built On The Clyde

Song 5: That's What Glasgow Means To Me

Your school should learn three songs in total; two songs that the entire cast sings and one song that is performed only by a single character group.

Your school's character group solo is Song 3: Built On The Clyde. 

All three character groups sing Song 1 and Song 5.

The same applies for learning the moves that accompany the songs using the teaching videos. All three groups learn the moves for Song 1 and Song 5, but each character group only learn the moves that go with their specific character song.

Landmark Group - What songs do I learn?

If your pupils have been assigned to the Landmark Group for the performance, you must learn the following songs:

Song 1: Our City

Song 4: Get On The Bus

Song 5: That's What Glasgow Means To Me

Your school should learn three songs in total; two songs that the entire cast sings and one song that is performed only by a single character group.

Your school's character group solo is Song 4: Get On The Bus.

All three character groups sing Song 1 and Song 5.

The same applies for learning the moves that accompany the songs using the teaching videos. All three groups learn the moves for Song 1 and Song 5, but each character group only learn the moves that go with their specific character song.

Learn the songs

Listen to the audio tracks below to learn the songs to Built on the Clyde with the help of our teaching artists. For each song, you will find a full score, a teaching track and a backing track.

The full score and lyric sheets contain all five songs. Just a reminder that your pupils learn the songs and the movements for just three of the five songs in the opera.

Additional Resources:

Song 1: Our City

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Song 2: People Make Glasgow

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Song 3: Built on the Clyde

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Song 4: Get On The Bus

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Song 5: That's What Glasgow Means to Me

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Playlists

Below you will find all of the audio files compiled into three playlists - full scores, backing tracks and teaching tracks. You can also download each track by clicking on the arrow next to each file.

Recits

You will see that there are a number of recording tracks called recits. These are short songs (or sometimes separate sections of a longer song) which are interspersed between the children’s songs and will be sung in the performance by our soloist Lea Shaw.

For example, the performance opens with a short solo from Lea sung to the same tune that is repeated in Song 1 (Our City) which is sung by all the children.

Although your pupils do not sing in these recits, they have some movements to perform at key moments and the signal (or cue) to do so, often comes from a line sung by Lea.

Therefore, please ensure they watch and learn the teaching videos for the Recits as well as for their songs.

Full scores

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Teaching Tracks

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Backing tracks

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Learn the moves

Watch the videos below to learn the moves to Built On The Clyde with the help of our teaching artists. 

Here you will find twelve lessons, one of which will serve as an introduction, ten of which refer to each of the songs and recits you learned earlier, and the final one of which will serve as a curtain call.

Each teaching artist represents one of the character groups. They will explain if the video applies to your character group at the beginning of the video.  

The full video playlist can be found here.

Introduction

Recit 1

Song 1: Our City

Recit 2

Song 2: People Make Glasgow

Recit 3

Song 3: Built On The Clyde

Recit 4

Song 4: Get On The Bus

Recit 5

Song 5: That's What Glasgow Means to Me

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