Happy holidayssss!!!!

 

2º - Romanesque and Gothic arts

Here you have the class presentation abour medieval art, you can also find it in teams together with the diagrams.

Unit 4 - Romanesque and Gothic - 2º eso from Rocío G.

4º - Music and history

As an answer to the last challenge...

This is Nabucco (first perfomed in 1842), by italian composer Verdi... Italians adopted it as a hymn of liberty and national unity during the process of unification...

Others...

Canto degli italiani o Fratelli d'Italia, 1847. Es el himno actual, adaptado a la República más que a la monarquía resultante del proceso de unificación.

Bella Ciao, from the late 19th century, originally sung by the mondina workers in protest against the harsh working conditions in the paddy fields of Northern Italy.

It is widely assumed that the mondina song was modified and adopted as an anthem of the Italian partisans who opposed Nazism and fascism, and fought against the occupying forces of Nazi Germany, who were allied with the fascist and collaborationist Italian Social Republic between 1943 and 1945 during the Italian resistance and the liberation of Italy.

Versions of "Bella ciao" continue to be sung worldwide as a hymn of freedom and resistance.

Marcia Reale. Official national anthem of the Kingdom of Italy between 1861 and 1943. It was composed in 1831 by Giuseppe Gabetti to the order of Charles Albert of Sardinia as the hymn of the royal House of Savoy, along with the Sardinian national anthem.

2º - Music and History: The Black death

 Here you have a song-parody of the terrible bubonic plague...

And here you have this article to have more information about it, and by the way you practice some more english!

And finally, the video proposed by the class book:

The Black Death from Christopher Brown on Vimeo.

2º - Challenge 3 answer

Why is it called ‘Gregorian’? 

It is called Gregorian because Pope St Gregory the Great arranged for the compilation of a series of ancient psalms and hymns at the beginning of the 7th century.

What is the difference between ‘monophony’ and‘polyphony’? Which type is Gregorian chant? 

If there is more than one melodic line, it is polyphonic. Gregorian chant is monophonic. 

Who performed it? At what time of day and with what instruments? 

It is a prayer sung by monks. 

In addition to mass chants there were the divine office chants, which were sung at set moments in the day. The so-called canonical hours were: matins, lauds, prime, terce, sext, none, vespers and compline. 

It was sung a cappella, that is, unaccompanied by any musical instrument.

... and the proposal in mine, I was thinking in the monks in Santo Domingo de Silos when I asked for a famous one in Castilla and León:

4º - Unit 2 - Unification of Italy & Germany

Here you have the two videos explaining the italian and the german unification processes in just 3 minutes... Not easy, not so difficult... you can use the subtitles.