“CELTIC MUSIC” PROJECT

A- Listen to this video and translate the lyrics.

  All souls night - Loreena McKennitt 

All souls night

Hogueras salpican las colinas ondulantes
figuras bailan alrededor
A tambores que xpulsan los ecos de la oscuridad
Moviendo a los sonidos paganos 

En algún lugar en una memoria oculta
Imágenes flotan ante mis ojos
de fragantes noches de paja y hogeras
Y bailando hasta el siguiente amanecer

Puedo ver las luces en la distancia
Temblando en la oscuridad (manto de la noche)
velas y faroles están bailando ,
bailando un vals en la noche de todas las almas.

(musica)

Figuras de tallos de maíz se doblan en las sombras

se mantienen altas como las llamas llegan alto.

El caballero verde sostiene el arbusto de acebo

 para marcar donde pasa el año viejo. 

Puedo ver las luces en la distancia
Temblando en la oscuridad (manto de la noche)
velas y faroles están bailando ,
bailando un vals en la noche de todas las almas.

(musica)

Hogueras salpican las colinas ondulantes
figuras bailan alrededor
A tambores que xpulsan los ecos de la oscuridad
Moviendo a los sonidos paganos 

De pie en el puente que cruza

 el río que sale al mar.

El viento está lleno de mil voces 

pasan entre el puente y yo.

 

 Puedo ver las luces en la distancia
Temblando en la oscuridad (manto de la noche)
velas y faroles están bailando ,
bailando un vals en la noche de todas las almas.


Puedo ver las luces en la distancia
Temblando en la oscuridad (manto de la noche)
velas y faroles están bailando ,
bailando un vals en la noche de todas las almas.


B- Who is Loreena McKennitt? (2 or 3 lines are enough). 




Loreena McKennitt is a singer and also a piano and harp player.She was born on the 17th of february of 1957 in Canadá.She has published approximately 10 disks.she has also wrote and singes the soundtrack for Tinker Bell And The Lost Treasure in 2009.

C- Is it just “Celtic” Music or there are another music influences? Which ones?


D- Who is Pamela Wyn Shannon? (2 or 3 lines are enough).
E- Where does she come from?
 

Pamela Wyn Shannon is a professional musician, fibre artist, puppeteer and animator.She was born in the United States.She has published two albums ( Courting Autumn and  Nature's Bride ).Her singing style is usually folk; as a singer,songwriter and guitarist she has published three DC's and performed throughout the world.


F- In your own words, try to express the feeling you get listening to this music (2 or 3 lines are enough). 


Pamela Wyn Shannon - Cold Blows The Wind
 

I feel like i´m in a little old village in the middle of a mountain, with a lot of trees, flowers and a lake.When i listen to this music i feel relaxed because of the melody and I also feel happy.I feel like i´m laying in a long field of grass looking to the sky and listening to a little river.

G- Do some research about the poem The Unquiet Grave which this song is based on, and answer these questions: what is the main topic of the song? Do you like the story? Why or why not? 

This poem is among the most beautiful "Child" ballads.

Constructed around a conversation between a young man and the ghost of his beloved.

The first two stanzas are spoken by the young man, at first, it seems he directly addresses the dead woman.

At first, the woman's death seems recent. But the pledged period of mourning ("a twelvemonth and a day") passes between stanzas two and three. 

The belief that graves become "unquiet", and the restless ghosts enact an angry or violent haunting because excessive grief prevents their leaving the earth, is an ancient one, far older than the poem.

I don't like much this poem , not because the lyrics, it is only that I prefer happy stories about  fairies and  things like that , I don't like dead people and graves...etc.

H- Where do they (Gwendal) come from?

Gwendal is a Breton and Celtic music instrumental group formed in 1972
From the first moment you can see that this group has a great multiplicity of influences,from traditional Irish music , to rock, jazz ...etc
The first album was published in 1974 with the name of "Irish Jig".

  I- Open your mind and let your imagination fly free!! : what does this music (Gwendal) transmit to you? (3 or 4 lines are enough). 

 

 
 

 It transmit happiness and energy.When i listen to it I feel like i am watching a lot of irish  dancers dancing on a town's square an there's a lot of musicians playing for them. the landscape that I imagine is a field full of flowers an people dancing around.

F- This is the song we are playing together (O Son do Ar).


Luar Na Lubre - O Son do Ar

 

SELF ASSESMENT (SECOND TERM)

1- What can I do that I couldn't do before?

• Now, I know a lot of things about pavanas.
  

2- What do I like most?

• I like watching videos in class because i understand more about what we copy in our notebooks, I also like when the teacher shows us extrange instruments , I learn a lot and I find it very interesting.
  

3- What do I do well?

• I think the english comprehension, I am able to understand most every word that Michael or Marcos say.

4- What am I confused about?

• There are some points in the last unit that i don't understand perfectly but i understand  most of the words.

5- What do I need help with?

• -

6- What do I do in English and/or Music outside the class?

• I take violin classes.

7- What do I need to improve?

• My behaviour and my attention in class.

8- What did I learn about culture?

• I have learnt about pavvanas and about Shakespeare. With the film of the last week , I learned a lot about soundtracks and I finded it very interesting.

Shakespeare-music project 2º term

What do you feel listening to this music? In your own words, try to express that feeling.

  MATTHEW LOCKE (SHAKESPEARE PROJECT).

When I listen to this music, I feel like I am dancing.I feel happy, creative  and energetic .

Shakespeare - music project 2º term

1- Do some research on the "pavan" (3 or 4 lines are enough).

The "pavan" is a music style it´s origin is in the late 16th century.It is usually composed in 2/4 or 4/4, is Italy and Spair there are some ones written in 3/4.the word "pavan" also gives name to a type of dande, its a slow processional dance, usually it is a couple dance (typical on that time).The word pavana comes from the italian word "padovana" wich means "danzar".

 

SHAKESPEARE 

He was born in strattford-upon-avon, and was baptised in april 1564. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway.He had three children: Susanna , Hamnet and Judith (Hammnet and Judith were twins).At age 49 around 1613, he moved to Stratford, where he died three years later (1616)with the age of  52.

He wrote very famous plays like Hammlet and Macbeth .

 

Project "Wish you were here"

 

3) Do some research (but not in depth)on the song, about some of the musicians of the song about pink floyd......etc.

PINK FLOYD

Their style of music and the spectacular stagings of his concerts  assigned them its own personality in  the world of popular music, up to the point of considering them as the creators of a new style that is called symphonic rock. 

 

They comped songs like :

 

"Another brick in the wall" from the albun "The wall" in 1979

"Money" of the album "The dark side of moon" in 1973

In  1975 they published the albun wish you were here, wich includes the song we are wonking with.

 

The musicians are called : 

Syd Barret (Cambridge, Reino Unido, 1946)

Nick Mason (Birmingham, id., 1945)

Roger Waters (Cambridge, Reino Unido, 1944)

Richard Wright (Londres, 1945)

David Gilmour was expelled because of his drugs problems.

Project "Wish you were here"

6) Write down a new first stanza in order to fit in with the musical structure.Each teacher (englich and music) will evaluate their corresponding items. 

- Pain , only is pain what i feel
is only that
that feeling of hurt
Why dont you help me to ?
to pass through all these 
It will just help me a lot.
But only if you want. 

SELF-ASSESMENT

1- What can I do that I couldn't do before?

I think i could do every thing before because I have studied music before. 

2- What do I like most?

 I like singing with all my classmates and playing pronuntation-games with Michael.

3- What do I do well?

The theory is very simple and it´s easy for me.

4- What am I confused about?

I am a little bit confused whit some words of the vocabulary.

5- What do I need help with?

 I think I need help with the pronuntation.

6- What do I do in English and/or Music outside the class?

 I play the violin since 7 years ago.

7- What do I need to improve?

 My behaviour.

8- What did I learn about culture?

 I have learned a lot about new music groups and bands and some music history.

9- What about Marcos (Music teaching and so on)? 

I like music classes because we don´t listen always the same music styles, but some times i think we copy a lot( I understand it because we don´t have books).

SCARBOROUGH FAIR PROJECT

3)  Do some research (but not in depth) on the song, about some of the musicians of the 21 versions, etc.


THE GOTHARD SISTERS
  

Greta Gothard (aged 28)
Willow Gothard (aged 26)
Solana Gothard(aged 20 )

These are three sisters form  Edmonds, Washington. 
They sing but ,they also dance irish dances. They are active since 2006.

I have chose this one because i think it's very a original and they sing vary good.


SARAH BRIGHTMAN

She has borned in Hertfordshire ,Inglaterra on 14th / august /1960.
Now she is  57.
she is singer , composer , dancer , actress and director.
She is active since 1973 (13 years old). She can play the piano.

i have chose this one because she have a incredible voice and she  has singed with a lot of important singers like Andrea Bocelli.




HAYLEY WESTRENA

She has borned in Christchurch, New Zeland on 10th /april/1987.
Now she is 30. she is singer, pianist, guitarist, violinist, flutist.
She is active since 2000.

I have chose this one because she is very talented and she can play a lot of instruments.

Scarborough Fair Excercise. 6

 Write down new third and fourth stanzas in order to fit in with the musical structure. 

3)Bring to the land a lovely lamb,

he will play  under the rain,

i will feed him with the better grass                         

bring to me a lovely lamb..., lovely lamb ..., lovely lamb.

 

4) Are you going to go for a walk

could you please take the lamb two ?

Take him with you to the best of the lands

so he can eat the fresh grass.

MUSICAL DILEMMAS....really enemies?

I think i doesn't the matter who or how  the music is played it will sond diferent but it will still beautiful , and all the instruments can play EVERY type of music .

ACOUSTIC GUITAR

Can you feel the differences in the sound?

YES , i think the difference between the electric guitar and the spanish one is clear .
But I hear the acoustic one like a mix between the spanish and the electric sound .


Do you know the main reason for these differences?


YES , the diference is caused because of the strings. In the acoustic guitar the stings are made of metal , but in the spanish one are made of plastic or other materials.

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