Guidelines
1) In class, we will work on some issues related to the Middle Ages, both in
Music terms and in History, Art, Sociology and Culture.
2) As
for Practice hour, the students will play with the recorder some interval and
chord exercises as well as progressions, in relation to the musical
“pre-harmony” theory of this historical period.
3) Together,
we will play the “cantiga” Santa María
Strela do Día by Alfonso X “el Sabio”. Instruments: recorder (students),
piano and guitar (teacher). Issues related to expression, rhythms, digitations, melody and so on will be under evaluation.
4) Some
videos related to the Middle Ages will be uploaded to the blog by the teacher.
The students must answer a series of questions focused on this topic.
5) Some
artistic images will be uploaded to the blog by the teacher, and the students
must answer a series of questions.
Deadline: around mid March.
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1) What period does the Middle Ages cover?
2) What general characteristics does it have (according to the teacher’s comments)?
3) What is the main difference between “troubadours” and “minstrels”?
4) Pay attention to these two monuments (a Romanic church and a Gothic cathedral). What do their
different heights have in common with the music evolution of those centuries?
5) What do you feel looking at these
pictures (taken from the 19th century but directly linked to the
Middle Ages)? In your own opinion, what kind of music could accompany these
images?
6) Why does Heavy Metal music love
this aesthetic?
7) This video explains the evolution
(intervals and so forth) of Middle Ages’
music such as we are playing in class.
8) This is the song we are playing
together in class.
9) Here you have the original score
and the adapted one (modern music language) that you are playing in class
(and at home I would like to believe). Have a look at their main differences.
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