Friday, 25 January 2019

H. PROJECT III


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?


Resultado de imagen de gothic cathedral

Resultado de imagen de romanic church


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?


Resultado de imagen de prerrafaelismo
Resultado de imagen de prerrafaelismo



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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. 

Resultado de imagen de santa maría strela do dia

Resultado de imagen de santa maría strela do dia

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