Y sí, por fin hemos llegado a sexto. Durante este curso nos esperan muchas aventuras y cosas nuevas. Trabajaremos los distintos tipos de música englobados en tres grandes grupos: Clásica, Tradicional y también Contemporánea. Preparados? Allá vamos!!
MUSICAL SYMBOLS
Musical symbols indicate the duration of the sounds and the rests.
Each symbol has got a different length.
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MUSICAL SYMBOLS
Musical notes indicate the pitch of a sound.
Las notas musicales nos indican la altura que tiene un sonido.
It depends on how HIGH or how LOW the sound is.
The Origin of Music, the Ancient and Middle Ages
Since remote, historical times, man has made music to express his feelings and to communicate with the force of nature.
The Ancient World
Since man’s first musical expression, music has developed greatly thanks to the many different civilizations that existed in the past. We know, for example, that the Ancient Egyptians sang and played instruments in their ceremonies. In Ancient Greece, the philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras discovered that music and mathematics are closely linked when he realized that the sounds on a musical scale are related arithmetically and he discovered the concept of harmony. The Romans also developed musical instruments for their large army of soldiers.
The Middle Ages
Profane Music à In the Middle Ages, while religious music was becoming more important in the monasteries and churches, a new kind of music was developing in villages and castles. This new music was not religious and people entertained themselves singing and dancing while minstrels and troubadours became very popular.
The minstrels were not educated people, they sang but they didn’t know how to compose, so they interpreted the songs that other people did. They travelled from village to village offering their repertoire and they were often accompanied by jesters and jugglers to make their representations more fun. The troubadours were educated musicians from noble families that composed their own music. The 13th century Spanish king Alfonso X and the 12th century English king Richard the Lionheart were famous troubadours.
Religious Music à People started writing music in a very basic form in the Middle Ages. In the monasteries the monks interpreted this music together and they all sang the same melody. This kind of music is known as Gregorian Chant which is a form of monophonic liturgical music named after Pope Gregory the Great. As the techniques for writing music improved, the monks organized their music on lines and created signs to represent the height of the sounds they had to sing. This way, the first stave was created by a monk. It was Guido d’Arezzo who gave each musical note a name
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