Welcome to a new year.
INTRODUCTION
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| Mario Fernández´s front page |
We started our lessons relaxing in class and listening to the sound around us.
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| Vera´s drawing |
And we worked about Noise Pollution with a test and looking for information about this problem.
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| Mario Fernández´s drawing |
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| Pablo Jaramago´s drawing |
MUSIC IN FILMS
The art of Foley: The magic of making sounds
During next lessons we watched a film, August Rush and dealt with music in movies.
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| Angie´s drawing |
The art of Foley: The magic of making sounds
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| Marcos Alías´drawing |
LEARNING TO PLAY THE RECORDER
We started to play the recorder. No more that 10 minutes in class. No more that 5 minutes at home, please. Try not to disturb your family, please!.
HISTORY OF MUSIC
We started to prepare our visit to the exhibition about Alfonso X el Sabio studying about Medieval Instruments.
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| Marcos´drawing: "Brass castanets" |
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| Manuela´s drawings |
And finally we started to study the history of music from the beggining:
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| Mario Fernández´s drawing |
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| Jorge Acero´s drawing |
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| Manuela´s drawing |
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| Pablo Jaramago´s drawing |
Abraham Cupeiro´s videos:
We studied the music during The Middle Ages using videos and the music book.
Link to the Middle Ages in this blog
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| Javier Villanueva´s drawing |
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| Vera Tato´s drawing |
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| Angie´s picture |
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| Paula Caraballo´s Gregorian score |
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| Blanca Moralo´s summary |
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| Cecilia Carrillo´s picture |
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| Javier Villanueva´s summary |
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| Irene´s drawing |
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| Pablo Jaramago´s drawing |
In order to work the origin of the names of the notes, we performed a play about a moment in the life of Guido d´Arezzo, you know, he invented a system to solfege ( "solmisation") and named the notes as we know them today from a hymn dedicated to Saint John the Baptist.
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| Angie Al Watar´s picture |
Finally, we watched three videos about the most important female composer in religious and medieval music: HILDEGARD VON BINGEN
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| Paola Hernández´s picture |
Zapata habla de Hildegard von Bingen, la heroína antimachista
La música de HIldegard von Bingen
Cantigas de Santa Maria
Secular music during the Middle Ages
Trobadours, jongleurs, minnesanger
Alfonso X
Martin Codax
Santa Maria Strela do dia
Quen a omagen
And we studied goliards.
And we studied goliards.
We studied Carmina Burana playing "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi" by Carl Orff
Do you want to know who goliards were?
In taberna quando sumus ( from Medieval Carmina Burana)
The origin of polyphonic music
Ars Antiqua
( Leonin and Perotin)
Ars Nova
( Guillaume de Machaut)
Finally, we learnt to use Audacity, a free software to produce an audio as a podcast to study The Middle Ages in present -day music.
Link to the folder in drive to hear all the productions.
(Audios produced by the teacher with some of the best minipodcasts).
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The music during Renaissance Period
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| A nice introduction ( by Angie Al Wattar) |
We studied the Renaissance instruments, the main contents to know the Musical Renaissance and started to analyse a piece of music.
Baroque period:
Link to the website we used to study this period.
We recorded a short script, a dialogue between Bach and a girl, leonor, who traveled to the Baroque period, integrating pieces of music composed by Bach to know his music.
