Thursday 21 December 2023
Wednesday 20 December 2023
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.
Wednesday 13 December 2023
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...
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.
2º - Music and History: The Black death
Here you have a song-parody of the terrible bubonic plague...
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: