Curso 2019-2020. 2º trimestre. 1º y 2º de ESO. Sección bilingüe.

1º ESO. Bilingual Section. 

Cristina Paredes´s journal

 We dealt with  different activities related to New Year´s Concert in Vienna. 

A website to look for information about New Year´s concert. 

Lourdes´s journal

We played Radetzky March using Body Percussion and danced polka and waltz.

Clara Vega´s journal

We draw Perpetuum mobile, by Johann Strauss, Jr, one of the first and old encore in New Year´s Concert.

Jiahui´s journal

Waltz basic step. 

Toompak en el López de Ayala

23rd of January of 2020. Sax lesson. 1º C -D 

Sara´s drawing

Dhamar wrote inmediately a title

Alejandro Doncel came to play two pieces of music with his alto saxo ( or sax).

Victor´s drawing

It was great.

A surprising and healthy experience: 
We started studying popular music and students belonging to 3º ESO invited us to eat eggs in different plates. EGGS ARE HEALTHY.
Thank you. It was fun.

During two weeks before Carnivals the groups were composing parodies,  "murgas".

We worked about the notes in the piano, the intervals, accidentals ( sharps and flats - sostenidos y bemoles) in order to do an exam about musical theory. 

Some vodeos to review these topics: 

   
Old exams about this topic: 

 
2º ESO



The history of the Music

" Historia de la Música en Comic"

Students organised in groups and invented a name for themselves:

Clara drew a poster with their name: 

Preguntas sobre "Historia de la Música en Comic" para centrar el estudio de la Edad Antigua: 

Dibujo de Pablo Moralo

1. ¿Cómo surgen los primeros instrumentos musicales?

Dibujo de Lucía Serrano

Dibujo de Andrés Guerra

Dibujo de Álvaro Risquete

2. ¿Para qué se utilizaba la música en Egipto?

Dibujo de Rodrigo Utrera

3. Indica una fuente de información a través de la cual podemos saber cómo eran algunos instrumentos en Mesopotamia.

4. ¿Qué civilización anterior a la griega suponemos que tenían ya una notación musical? Pista: Inventaron el sistema de división de horas, días y semana que seguimos
usando actualmente.
5. ¿Quiénes eran las “plañideras” ?
6. ¿Con qué acompañaba el rey David sus Salmos?
7. ¿Qué instrumentos están presentes en la enseñanza de los profetas haciendo la música menos solemne?
8. Cita dos dioses griegos relacionados con la música.

9. ¿Con qué instrumento encanta Orfeo a Caronte para poder ver a su amada Eurídice ?

Dibujo de Adriana, Jorge, Daniel y Esmeralda
¡Enhorabuena, grupo Chiquilikuatre!

10. ¿De qué familia eran los instrumentos que los griegos y romanos llevaban a la guerra?
11. ¿Qué tipo de agrupación instrumental llevaron después los soldados romanos a la guerra para envalentonar a las tropas? Elige una de estas: Orquesta, banda, rondalla.

12. ¿Con qué tapaban su rostro los actores en el teatro griego?

13. En las Olimpiadas se daban medallas de............................................




14. ¿Qué era un “hidraulo” ?



15. ¿Qué inventan los griegos para transmitir la música?








16. ¿Qué instrumento tocaba Nerón mientras miraba como ardía Roma por orden suya?

Dibujo de Mercedes

17. ¿Cómo se llaman el canto que cuenta las hazañas de los guerreros celtas?

Javier Gómez de Tejada´s drawing

18. ¿Cuáles son los temas extramusicales más frecuentados en la música anterior al canto gregoriano?


19. ¿A qué cultura pertenece la leyenda de Los Nibelungos que inspira "El Señor de los Anillos?

20.  ¿Qué músico utilizará la leyenda de Los Nibelungos siglos más tarde para componer óperas ?

Cuaderno de Clara ( de Los Vivaldis)

Middle Ages- Edad Media 

Clara´s drawing

A exciting experience to recreate the medieval period 

Practising "Quironomía"

Questions to work on these video:

Some historical details:
Who was the son of Peppin the Short?
What did the Pope ask Pepin the Short to do?

The origin of Gregorian Chant
Which were the two styles of chant that finally evolved to Gregorian Chant in Early Middle Ages?

Cause and effect
How many years did Gregory the Great rule?
Why is the Pope Gregory I associated with Gregorian chant?
What does the legend say about the creation of this chant?
Why is Gregorian chant so important?
If Gregorian chant had never emerged in the 8th century, what would have happened to Western Music?

Specific details:
What are the main characteristics of Gregorian chant?
Which language is Gregorian chant written in?
Does it have a metered rhythm?
Is Gregorian Chant monophonic or poliphonic music?
What were the two "church modes" ( ancient modes) that were the basics or ancestor of the major and minor scales?

Subjects related
Name a Greek word from the church modes?
All Gregorian chants are joined in one book, "Liber Usualis". One of the most known chants is named "Dies irae".What´s the meaning of "Dies irae"?
Where did the lyrics of Dies Irae come from?

Conclusion
Did you like the video? Why?
What are the most interesting facts about the Gregorian Chant you have learnt?

LINK

Students drew ancient scores ( medieval notation)  and rose windows for a cathedral like this.

UT QUEAN LAXIS,

"Ut queant laxis" or "Hymnus in Ioannem" is a Latin hymn in honor of John the Baptist, written in Horatian Sapphics and traditionally attributed to Paulus Diaconus, the eighth-century Lombard historian. It is famous for its part in the history of musical notation, in particular solmization.

Medieval score (  copied by Jesús González Alonso)

Ut queant laxis was a 11th century Gregorian chant and the earliest known ancestor of the modern do re mi. Her essay examined the introduction of solmization, or named pitches, in medieval musical theory and pedagogy. She described how Guido of Arezzo, a medieval music theorist, proposed a new hexachordal (six-note) system to simplify the learning of chants. Guido created the tune of “Ut queant laxis” so that each line of the hymn corresponded with a specific note of the hexachord and a name for that note (ut re mi fa sol la, after the first syllable of each line), to aid early singers in sightreading and transcribing music.

Mercedes copied "Ut queant laxis"

Marta's rose window

Candela's rose window

Angel Pizarro´s rose window

Carla's rose window

Rosette´s Lucía

Partitura de Rodrigo Cabral 

Recording "Puer Natus in Bethelem" in C-D bilingual group:

Analising music:
LINK


Conections with pop music:

Carmina Burana: 

Goliards´music

A collection from Middle Ages

AND

A big and exciting work composed by Carl Orff in twentieth century

Carmina Burana (/ˈkɑːrmɪnə bʊˈrɑːnə/, Latin for "Songs from Benediktbeuern" [Buria in Latin]) is a manuscript of 254 poems and dramatic texts mostly from the 11th or 12th century, although some are from the 13th century. They were written principally in Medieval Latin, a few in Middle High German, and old French and old English. 

 The pieces are mostly bawdy, irreverent, and satirical.

O Fortuna from the song cycle of Carmina Burana, demonstrates the medieval style of music. The text was earlier written in the 13th century as a poem, however later elaborated into a an orchestral piece by Carl Orff, in 1935–36. This wonderful piece of music creates a sense of mystery and darkness.

Students played a cantiga by Alfonso 10th the Wise: 

Santa Maria Strela do dia

Some of the students accompanied the melodies with drones: D and A ( re y la), the most important notes in Dorian mode. 

Eventually, working about Dorian mode, ( "Modo de Re") students played "Games of thrones". 

We recorded a video in 2º E ( with the whole group).

Students worked about Pass the word about Middle Ages: 

A

-It´s the effect about the alternation between two choirs responding to each other.
- Castilian king who composed "Cantigas de Santa María".

C
-Military expeditions led by Christians kings whose mission was recovering the Holy Places of Jerusalem.
-They are pieces of music dedicated to Virgin Mary, composed around the second half of the 13th century under the supervision of the king of Castile, Alfonso X the Wise.
-Religion related to Gregorian Chant.
-Work related to goliards.
-Name of the kind of singing in which voices have no musical acompaniment: A _________

F
-It´s a word that is used to describe the Gregorian chant rhythm.
-Country in which trobadours lived.

G
-This is how religious and medieval music is known.
-Pope who recopiled all religious music in Western Europe in order to unify the chants in catholic monasteries in 7th century.
-Name of the Benediktine monk who developed new techniques for teaching and started using our notes: "ut–re–mi–fa–so–la with the initial syllables each of the first six half-lines of the first stanza of the hymn Ut queant laxis. He came from Arezzo.

I
-Objects that are non used in Vocal and religious music in Middle Ages.

J
-Popular travelling musicians.

L:
-A plucked string instrument ancestor of the guitar.
-Language in which Gregorian chant is written.
-A medieval manuscript found in Montserrat monastery with monophonic and polyphonic songs sung by pilgrims.

M
-A period that starts at the end of the 5th century coinciding with the fall of the Roman Empire and the expansion of Christianity and ends in the final of 14th century.
-It´s the texture of Gregorian chant.
-Various notes are sounded on each syllable.
-They were an English type of travelling musicians who popularized music in this period.
-People who sang Gregorian chant.
- Religious work formed by different pieces ( Introito, Kyrie, Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei, Comunio, etc)
-The name of the little pictures used by the monks for decorating their manuscripts:


O
-Composer who was inspired by medieval Carmina Burana in 20th century. He composed "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi".

P
-The role of Gregory the Great.
-Another name for Gregorian chant

R.
-It´s the effect produced when soloist and choir alternate throught the piece of music  responding to each other.

S
-Name of Singing and religious schools

T
-They were a court of singers-songwriters who composed and wrote music and  lyrics in poetry form:
-Four lines , staff´s ancestor.

V
-A bowed string instrument with four strings played by rubbing a wheel over them.

Pilar and Adriana poster. Rodrigo´s drawing.

Last activities related to Middle Ages:

1-Look for the most interesting video to learn about music during the Middle Ages in this
LInk to Middle Ages

2- Dancing branles and farandolas from the Middle Ages.
Dancing folk music, pop music with body percussión.

3- Identifying medieval instruments.

Esmeralda´s drawings

 

4- Discovering the first female composers.

Rosa Palomar's drawing

5- Looking for a protest song.

6- Composing and playing music like the troubadours, joglars or goliards:

Some of the students composed verses using rap style some days before the 8th of March
( International Women´s day ) .

Grabación realizada en clase por 4 grupos de 2ºCD