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KS2 Music: Rocking Romans!

Rocking Romans!

Welcome to Rocking Romans! Music, laughter… and your favourite Roman TV programmes!

Rocking Romans! is a musical play for primary schools celebrating the time of the Romans in Britain. The playscript has been written by Michael Coleman - based on his sketches for our series The Romans - and is ideal for the top end of primary school, though it also includes plenty of opportunities to include younger of the school. The playscript includes songs written and composed by Barry Gibson, with additional material by Michael Coleman.

Rocking Romans! is free to as either a pdf file (landscape format) or a Word document (portrait format). The online resources ing the playscript are all also free to and include:

  • all the lyrics for the nine songs
  • the music for each song
  • the full-vocal arrangements of the songs to as mp3 files (see 'Related links')
  • karaoke-style videos for the full vocal and backing track versions of each of the songs - found below
  • a comprehensive set of guidance notes, including suggestions for stage backdrops that will really enhance your performance
  • A set of performance notes - with ideas for effective staging of the scenes and plenty of practical advice on how to rehearse the show

ing the songs and SFX files

You can the songs and SFX file of songs and sound effects and use them for your performance of our Romans musical. The cues have been labelled to match the titles used in the playscript.

If the SFX .zip file refuses to you should be able to resolve the issue as follows:

  • Google Chrome. Right click on the link and select ‘Open link in new window’. Make sure the link address is highlighted in the search window and press return.
  • Microsoft Edge. Click on the link. When you see a message that the file ‘Can’t be ed securely’ click on the 3 little dots and select ‘Open s page’. On the s page click on ‘Keep’. When you see another message that ‘This file can’t be ed securely’ click ‘Keep anyway’.
  • Firefox. Click on the link. When the dialogue box appears click the small arrow to the right of the file name and select ‘Allow ’.

The complete package of ing resources will help your group to rehearse and stage a really memorable performance of the play. The script has also been written with the aim of providing a large number of (small) speaking roles for both boys and girls and plenty of opportunities to with singing as an ensemble and with movement and dance.

It's a complete off-the-shelf, ready-to-use, musical resource!

Songs

Learn the songs for Rocking Romans! by ing in with the vocal and backing track videos. There are songs about Roman customs, Roman gods and goddesses, Roman pastimes, Roman buildings, Roman art and culture. Each of the songs has a lyric sheet and a music sheet. Each of the songs features in the playscript of 'Rocking Romans!' There is also a set of Performance Notes with guidance on how best to learn and perform the 'Rocking Romans!' songs.

Our two singers are Sophie Aldred and Nigel Pilkington.

Song 1 from the musical 'Rocking Romans!'

1. Signals!

Song 2 from the musical 'Rocking Romans!'

2. Is that a fact?

Song 3 from the musical 'Rocking Romans!'

3. Boudicca!

Song 5 from the musical 'Rocking Romans!'

5. Spin that coin

Song 6 from the musical 'Rocking Romans!'

6. Roman gods and goddesses

Song 8 from the musical 'Rocking Romans!'

8. Make a mosaic

Resources

Some simple, practical ideas for staging your own performance of Rocking Romans! (pdf)

Teachers' performance notes

/ print the complete lyrics for 'Rocking Romans!' (pdf)

Rocking Romans song lyrics

all the music cues and sound effects for staging the play as a .zip file (49MB)

Music cues and sound effects