Hello everyone!! This year you will learn a lot about Music History in a funny way. You'll search about dayly life in different periods of history , the lives of great composers and you will learn really what Classical Music is.
UNIT 1: Music in Middle Ages (V-XV century)
Life in Middle Ages.
How was life in Middle Ages?
In this website we can learn how people live in this period, what they eat, what they wear, etc and we also have a final quizz.
Video about Middle Ages.
Medieval
Music and Musicians - The Troubadours
The
Troubadours were originally travelling musicians. The early Troubadours
travelled from one village to the next and many also travelled abroad. The role
of the Troubadours changed to part of an elite society of royalty and nobles, even some of them were nobles as Alfonso X, king of Spain. The themes of the songs sung by the Troubadours mainly dealt with Chivalry, wars and
Courtly love (romantic ballads).
The Jongleurs
The
Jongleurs were often the assistants of the Troubadours or Minstrels. Jongleurs
gained a reputation as itinerant entertainers and many were deemed to be
vagabonds and untrustworthy. Their repertoire included various skills in dancing,
conjuring, acrobatics, and juggling. They becamen in the "newspapers" of this period, they sang all kind of stories (love, battles, wars, etc.).
Listening: "Pensativo está Rodrigo". Romances del Cid.
Task 1: Learning Medieval writing.
You must summarize the Unit about Medieval music in your text book and it must look like a medieval text. You should watch this video to learn how to make papers look old.
When your "medieval" document will be ready you will explain it to your classmates as better as possible. Our language assitant will help you.
Listening. "Carmina Burana". Carl Orff.
Carmina Burana is a manuscript of 254 poems and dramatic texts mostly from the 11th or 12th century, although some are from the 13th century. The pieces are mostly irreverent, and satirical. They were written principally in Medieval Latin and a few in Middle High German. Some are a mixture of Latin and German or French vernacular.
Most of the poems and songs appear to be the work of Goliards, clergy (mostly students) who satirized the Catholic Church.
The collection was found in 1803 in the Benedictine monastery of Benediktbeuern, It is considered to be the most important collection of Goliard and vagabond songs.
Twenty-four poems in Carmina Burana were set to music in 1936 by Carl Orff as Carmina Burana. His composition quickly became popular. The opening and closing movement "O Fortuna" has been used in numerous films.
Watch this amazing Carmina Burana performance conducted by André Rieu.
Middle Ages music KAHOOT!
MERRY CHRITMAS!!!🎅🎄🎄
MUSIC AND CINEMA
Classifying film music - diegetic and non diegetic music.
Music for
films can be classified in various ways. 1) Film music can be classified as diegetic or non
diegetic.
1) Diegetic music, or source music.
It is part of the fiction and so we can see its source (where it comes
from) on the screen: somebody singing or playing a musical instrument, for
example. Usually the characters in the film can hear it too.
What examples of diegetic music
can you think of? Make a list.
Listen to and watch this very clear example of diegetic music. It is the piece "As time goes by", sung by Dooley Wilson, whose character is called Sam in the film Casablanca. The actress who is listening is the famous Ingrid Bergman: her character says "Play it, Sam".
2) In this moving clip from Titanic, the musicians from the orchestra decide to keep playing while the ship is sinking. They try to help others with some calming music during those terrible last minutes. "Gentlemen, it has been a privilege playing with you tonight" says the lead violin. It really happened. They were brave men.
Non diegetic music.
We can't see the source of non diegetic music in a film, and the
characters in the film can't hear it.
What examples of non diegetic music can you think of? Change partners
and make another list!
And here are some more examples of non diegetic music in films.
The shower scene in Psycho, directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1960, is one of the most famous in scary movies. You can see the difference between the use of music here as opposed to the use of diegetic music that we saw in the previous examples: here the characters cannot hear the music, the source is not part of the story (we can't see anyone singing or playing an instrument or putting on a record): it does not form part of the world they are living in. But for us viewers, it is fantastic! The use of repeated very high notes makes it very scary!
Original and non original scores
Film music can also be classified according to its origin:
There are original scores, which have been composed on purpose for the film,
and there is non-original film music, when directors use music that already existed.
Within non-original film music we will be studying the use of classical music in films.
These are examples of original scores, and we learnt the names of their composers.
Listen to some more famous original scores......
Have you seen Pirates of the Caribbean ? The main theme is very well-known. It was written by Hans Zimmer and Klaus Badelt in 2003. It is an exciting, fast piece of music which is well suited to an exciting, fast film!
Non original film music
We have seen lots of examples of original scores (music written for specific films). But of course, film directors often use pre-existing music for their movies. This often happens with pop songs. Here are a few famous examples:
Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya and Pink sang "Lady Marmalade" for the film Moulin Rouge in 2001. The original dates from 1974, performed then by the girl group Labelle. Let's watch the more recent version:
Classical music is used in films in a diegetic way and a non diegetic way.
Good example of the use of classical musical diegetically is:
-"Amadeus". Milos Forman. In the film "Amadeus" Mozart plays the piano in this scene.
NON DIEGETIC
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Director Stanley Kubrick chooses to use the famous introduction to Also Sprach Zarathrusta (1896), by Richard Strauss, to accompany the images of a space craft travelling through the universe.
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