FLAMENCO

• Origin: in the century XVIII.
• Instruments that perform it:the guitar,the tambourie,the kettledrum,the castanets and the cajon.
• Body percussion to accompany it:clap the hands
• Famous performers:Camaron,Paco de Lucia,Lola Flores,Jose Merce,Cigala and Juanito Valderrama.
• 35)In theatres,in restaurants and in patios de casas.

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                        SEVILLANAS

Sevillanas are an Andalusian singing and dance typical of Seville, Huelva and other
provinces of Andalusia, which are sung and danced in the different fairs that are celebrated by the Andalusian community, especially in the Feria de Abril de Sevilla or in The pilgrimage of El Rocío, in the village of Almonte, Huelva, in the pilgrimage of La Virgen de la Cabeza, Province of Jaén.

                         MOZART AND BEETHOVEN.

a)Which period did W.A Mozart and L. van Beethoven belong to?

Mozart in the Classic period and Beethoven in the Classic and to the Romanticism.

b)What was the relationship between the two musicians?

Teacher and student. 

c)What was new about the last movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony?

-During the cold war and division of Berlin, the symphony was used like the hymn of Eastern Germany between 1956 and 1968.

-The symphony is the first example of a compositor using voices.

-The song was "An die Fraude".

-Based on the testimony of people who were present, it is known that the symphony was not well tested (there were only two previous tests).

d)What types of works did Beethoven compose?Did he write any operas?

Orchestral music: Orchestral pieces, concerts and concert moves, dances, marches and dances for wind music.

Yes,he did.

e)Did Beethoven write any musical works inspired by nature?

Yes,the sixth symphony.

d)Are there any films about the life of Mozart?And Beethoven?

Amadeus of Mozart and Beethoven of Beethoven.

.                                              SONGS IN DIFFENTS STYLES

-WAKE ME UP:
                                                                      -Popular urban.

                                                                                                                                                                 

-Formal music:
  

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-Type of the instruments:is a pitch ideophone percussion instruments.
-Materials used to made:wood.
-How its made:by hand (professionals xylophones) and manufactured industrially(beginners'xylophones).
-Main parts of the instruments:

-Instruments esembles it can play:it can play jazz,also we use to ambient music.
-Important composers and works:there isn't any famous xylophone player.

                                                       THE FLUTE

 

-type of the instrument:woodwind instrument with an embouchure hole.
-Materials use to make it:metal
-How it's made:by hand (professional flutes)and manufactured industrially(beginners' flutes.
-How we tune it:putting in and putting off the embouchure.
-Main parts of the instrument:

                   

-Instruments ensembles it can play in:classical music.
-Impòrtant composers and work:

• Francesco Antonioni:Canzoni e ballabili
• Julian Anderson:The Colour of Pomegranates
• Diego Hernandez:Titanic.

                           

                               The guitar:

-Type of instrument: plucked string instrument.

-Materials used to make it: body made of wood,are typical nylon with the basses being wound with either silver or bronze.

-How it´s made:by hand(proffesional guitar) and manufactured industrially(beginners´ guitars)
-How we tune it:with the tunners
-Main parts of  the instrument:           
                                                                                                                                    

-Instruments ensembles it can play: all types of music(formal,traditional and popular)
-Important composers:
1. James Marshall «Jimi» Hendrix

2. Jimmy Page

3. Eric Clapton

                                                        EXCERCISES
A)What is a Guarneri?
-Is the family name of a group of distinguished luthiers from Cremona in Italy in the 17th and 18th centuries, whose standing is considered comparable to those of the Amati and Stradivari families.
B)Which famous luthiers lived in the italian city of Cremona?
-Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarneri  (21 August 1698 - 17 October 1744)
-Pietro Guarneri  (14 April 1695 - 7 April 1762)
-Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri  (25 November 1666 - 1739 or 1740)
-Pietro Giovanni Guarneri  (18 February 1655 - 26 March 1720)
-Andrea Guarneri ( 1626 - 7 December 1698)
C)Which famous luthiers made violins for Niccolo Paganini?
-He came to possess five Stradivarius violins, two Amati and a Guarnerius (his favorite violin) called Il Cannone.
 

                                                        RARE INSTRUMENT

    THE NELOPHONE: The nelophone is an instrument formed by tubes (from 1'8 to 9 meters long) organized around a circle up to 3'6 meters in circumference. The musician stands in the middle of the instrument and hits the openings of the tubes with special blades. The pitch of each tube depends on its length (as normally happens with all wind instruments).
 

               

                                                              BEATBOXING

           Is a type of vocal percussion in which the performer imitates the sounds of a drum machine with the mouth,lips,tongue and voice.It was borned in the late 1980s in the poorer parts of New York.

         This is a beatboxing battel.

                                                 

                                                              EXERCISES

    Maria Callas:

     -Date and place of birth:  Nueva York, 2 de diciembre de 1923    

    -Where her family was from: Era hija de Evangelia Dimitriadis y George Kaloyerópulos, una pareja de emigrantes griegos que llegaron a Estados Unidos en agosto de 1923                                                                                                                                    - Nickname: the divine

     -Tessitura of her voice:soprano                                                          -Other information about his life:On November 3, 1959, Maria Callas left her husband Giovanni Meneghini for the Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, an idyll that the press of the time spread exhaustively. This tortuous relationship would become a "Greek tragedy." The soprano retired for a short time while his relationship with Onassis lasted, and on his return (for lack of practice and excessive social life) no one escaped that his voice had lost force and evidenced the signs of decadence that had already been warned Years before.