"CELTIC MUSIC" PROJECT

Project Guidelines

1) The teacher will upload some videos of this kind of music to the blog, in order to ask a series of questions about it. The artists are Loreena McKennitt, Gwendal and Pamela Wyn Shannon. 2) The lyrics of the song All Souls Night by Loreena McKennitt will be uploaded, and the students will translate it (after working on it with the teacher in Music classes).
3) Together, we will play the song O Son do Ar by Luar na Lubre. Instruments: recorder and acoustic guitar. Issues related to digitations, rhythm, tempo, expression, and so on will be under evaluation. 
Deadline: around 10th June.


A- Listen to this video and translate the lyrics.

Hogueras salpican las colinas hirvientes

figuras danzan alrededor y alrededor

A los tambores que emiten ecos

de la oscuridad

Moviéndose hacia el sonido pagano.

Algún lugar en la memoria escondida

Imágenes flotan delante de mis ojos

De fragantes noches de pajas y hogueras

Y bailando hasta la siguiente sorpresa.

Puedo ver luces en la distancia

Temblando en la oscuridad

capa de la noche.

Velas y linternas

Están bailando bailando

Un vals en todas las almas anochecidas.

Figuras de tallos de maíz 

Se doblan en las sombras 

Sosteniendolas tan alto como las llamas saltan.

El caballero verde tiene 

el unico acebo

Para marcar por donde los viejos tiempos pasaban.

(x2)(estribillo)

Puedo ver luces en la distancia

Temblando en la oscuridad 

capa de la noche

Velas y Linternas

están bailando bailando

un vals en todas las almas anochecidas.

Hogueras salpican las colinas hirvientes,

figuras danzan alrededor y alrededor

A los tambores que emiten ecos

de la oscuridad.

Moviéndose hacia el sonido pagano.

de pie en el puente que cruza el río

que sale al mar

El puente está lleno de miles voces 

que pasan por el puente y yo.

Puedo ver luces en la distancia

Temblando en la oscuridad 

capa de la noche

Velas y Linternas

están bailando bailando

un vals en todas las almas anochecidas.

puedo ver las luces en la distancia 

tenblando en la oscuridad 

capa de la noche

velas y linternas

estan bailando  bailando 

un vals en todas las almas anochecidas.

(x2)

B- Who is Loreena McKennitt? (2 or 3 lines are enough).

Loreena Isabel Irene McKennitt, (born February 17, 1957) is a Canadian musician, composer, harpist, accordionist, and pianist who writes, records and performs world music with Celtic and Middle Eastern themes. McKennitt is known for her refined and clear dramatic soprano vocals.She has sold more than 14 million records worldwide.

                                       

C- Is it just “Celtic” Music or there are another music influences? Which ones? 

No,there isn´t.Others celtic music influencers are Luar na Lubre,Milladoiro,Gwendal,Clannad,Celtic Woman,etc.

D- Who is Pamela Wyn Shannon? (2 or 3 lines are enough).

Is a singer of county music and singing light (born 1975/1976), originally from the US, but now has moved from Amherst, Massachusetts and lived in the Gwynfryn, near Wrexham with his partner Eifion Wyn Williams.

E- Where does she come from?

She is from Massachussets,in the U.S.A.

F- In your own words, try to express the feeling you get listening to this music (2 or 3 lines are enough). 

I feel relaxed,because the melody and the voice of the singer is very soft.The instruments (guitar and a soft sound of a bagpipe)are very calm too.This kind of music remind me of the middle Ages.

G- Do some research about the poem The Unquiet Grave which this song is based on, and answer these questions: what is the main topic of the song? Do you like the story? Why or why not? 

The Unquiet Grave" is an English folk song in which a young man mourns his dead love too hard and prevents her from obtaining peace.The main topic is love.Yes,I like the story because I love romantic stories although then they end badly.

H- Where do they (Gwendal) come from?

Gwendal is an instrumental group of Breton and Celtic music formed in 1972.It is from Brittany,in France.

I- Open your mind and let your imagination fly free!! : what does this music (Gwendal) transmit to you? (3 or 4 lines are enough). 
This music,is very strange,I have never heared it,but I can´t deny is very happy and cheerful.I can distinguish the violin,but there is other sound I don´t know what it is.

 F- This is the song we are playing together (O Son do Ar).

SELF-ASSESSMENT (SECOND TERM)

1- What can I do that I couldn't do before?
Play the recorder more fluently.
2- What do I like most?
The film we saw and play the second pavana with the recorder.
3- What do I do well?
Play the recorder.
4- What am I confused about?
About some things of the theory.
5- What do I need help with?
With nothing.
6- What do I do in English and/or Music outside the class?
Listen songs in English.
7- What do I need to improve?
I need to speak less in Spanish and speak more in English.
8- What did I learn about culture?
I learned a lot of things of culture,like curiosities of the soundtracks of the films.

SHAKESPEARE PROJECT

1.What do you now about Shakespeare?

William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon".He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon,Warwickshire,England,the 26 April of 1564, and he died the 23 April 1616 (with 52 years old). At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children. 

2.Do some research on the "pavan" (3 or 4 lines are enough)
The pavane, pavan, paven, pavin, pavian, pavine, or pavyn is a slow processional dance common in Europe during the 16th century (Renaissance).The pavane, the earliest-known music for which was published in Venice by Ottaviano Petrucci is a sedate and dignified couple dance, similar to the 15th-century basse danse. 

3.In your own words, try to express the feeling you get listening to this music.
John Dowland's video:it makes me feel relaxed and calm.The melody is very soft and quiet.
Matthew Locke's video:the melody is more cheerful than the other and is more interesting too because there are more instruments.

PINK FLOYD WISH YOU WERE HERE

                  WISH YOU WERE HERE

So,so you think you can guess
White from a black?
A silence moment from war
Can you think a good life
from a badlucky day
A true smile from a fake
Do you think you can guess?

PINK FLOYD

                   BASIC INFORMATION

• Pink Floyd were an English rock band formed in London in 1965. Their play progressive and psychedelic music.
•  It were founded by students:Syd Barrett on guitar and lead vocals, Nick Mason on drums, Roger Waters on bass and vocals, and Richard Wright on keyboards and vocals.
•  They gained popularity performing in London's underground music scene in 1960s.      
• This is the cover of the most popular album of this group,`The Dark Side of the Moon`(1973).                                                                                                                                 

SELF-ASSESSMENT

1- What can I do that I couldn't do before?
Be a little quieter and not be too confused.
2- What do I like most?
Play the recorder.
3- What do I do well?
Play the recorder.
4- What am I confused about?
About the rests of the notes.
5- What do I need help with?
With the dictations.
6- What do I do in English and/or Music outside the class?
Nothing
7- What do I need to improve?
The behavior.
8- What did I learn about culture?
Some composers that I didn´t now.
9- What about Marcos (Music teaching and so on)?
He explain good but I would copy less.

ESTROFAS SCARBOROUGH FAIR

SCARBOROUGH FAIR

Live is eternal and time is forever
Feel the money and coins passing by
Into your wallet there isn´t dollars
Then you must to go to the bank,go to the bank..,go to the bank.

Are you going to the shopping centre.
There are shops to buy many things
T-shirts and trousers,shoes and a tracksuit
Then you will to save money now,save money now..,save money now.

MUSICAL DILEMMAS

                              VIDEO-MOONLIGHT SONATA

• WOW!This girl plays the guitar amazing.Is true,the guitar can be for women or for men,and the violin,and all the instruments.
• It's great to see that a song of classical  music is converted to a song of electric guitar.I really like this video.

SCARBOROUGH FAIR

                             ORIGIN

• The song relates the tale of a young man who instructs the listener to tell his former love to perform for him a series of impossible tasks, such as making him a shirt without a seam and then washing it in a dry well, adding that if she completes these tasks he will take her back. 

• Often the song is sung as a duet, with the woman then giving her lover a series of equally impossible tasks, promising to give him his seamless shirt once he has finished. 

                         21 VERSIONS 
              My favourite version is the version of the Hayley                              Westenra because I think she sings very well and very soft.

 

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