Music at Leonor!

Music from Renaissance to nowadays!!!

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Here you have information that we are working with this term. The history of music can help us to understand the music that we listen to today and maybe inspire us to create something new. Who knows!!, perhaps there is a fantastic composer among all of you!!!

Renaissance

Baroque

Classical

Romanticism

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MUSIC HISTORY!! Ancient music to Middle Ages

Facts about Ancient Egyptian Music

They used small shells as whistles
They believed the God Bat invented music
In many rituals music and chanting was commonly used
Chanting played an important role in Egyptian religion and was often accompanied by clappers
There is evidence showing that in the old Kingdom they use flutes, harps and even clarinets

Egyptian music sheet

Facts About Ancient Greek Music:

The Kithara was an Ancient Greek lyre.
The earliest known organ was called the Hydraulis.
Musicians would rest instruments on their shoulder and use a sling made of leather ot hold it to their body.
Strings of the instruments were muscles of different kinds of animals.
We know what we do about Ancient Greek music because poets and writers wrote about them.
Some hymns were found that were written to the gods but none of them had music written on them. One famous one was called “Hymn to Apollo.”
Mount Parnassus was the place where the temple of the god of Apollo lived and was considered the most sacred place in Ancient Greece. This was a big place of music and dance.

Facts About Ancient Roman Music:

Much of the Roman music was adopted by Greek musical traditions.
The Romans followed Ancient Greek methods of using four notes and different rhythms.
Little Ancient Roman music has survived, and the written music is rarely found.
Roman music consisted of a single melody.
Roman music did not have harmony.
One form of music that was used with dance was called pantomimus.
Nero was the one that was known for organizing musical contests.
The tympana were a small drum what was carried in the Ancient Roman hands.
The tintinnabulum was a bell-shaped whistle.
The tibia was like a pipe flute.

Music in Prehistory

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La música en la prehistoria

Music in Ancient times

Unit 1 Prehistory and Classical Antiquity, una ficha interactiva de almunuera
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Recorder song from Middle Ages.

We are going to learn a song from The Middle Ages, it is the Cantiga 100 "Strela do dia" composed by the King Alphonsus X the Wise in the XIII century. It is in his book called "Cantigas de Santa Maria".

Here you have the video with the positions in the recorder to help you to practice.

And here you have the original music sheet:

Folklore de España

Hello everybody, here you have the activity that we were watching today. Click on it and learn more about our country folk culture.

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