WRITING EXCERCISES UNIT 3

MÚSICA 2º ESO
TEMA 3
1)      Completa el esquema (detrás).

1.1)            Music at the service od power

2)      The Baroque period developed during _____________________
3)      El periodo Barroco se desarrolló durante  ______________________________
4)      The Baroque period was the golden age of ______________ because it became the protagonist of ________________
5)      El periodo Barroco fue la Edad de Oro de ___________________  porque ésta se convirtió en la protagonista de ____________________________________
6)      Due to the power was in hands of the monarchy, the aristocracy and the Church,  _________,_________ and _________ became patrons of the best composers.
7)      Debido a que en el Barroco el poder estaba en manos de la monarquía, la aristocracia y la Iglesia,
_________,_________ y _________  se convirtieron en los mecenas de los mejores compositores.
8)      The patronage of kings and nobility was due to __________________________
9)      El mecenazgo de los reyes y nobles se debía a que ___________________________________
10)   Besides, music was used to display_________________ and __________________
11)   Además, la música se utilizaba para demostrar ____________________ y _________________
12)   Unlike Renaissance music, in the Baroque, there wasn’t a unique international music style. On the contrary, each country adopted____________________________________________________________________
13)   A diferencia de la música del Renacimiento, en el Barroco no hubo un único estilo internacional. Por el contrario, cada país adoptó _________________________________________________________________
The main characteristics of Baroque music are:
14)   A technique called _________________ is used.  In this technique, chords are built up over a ______________. In this technique, chords are built up over a ______________________, performance by a ________________, a _____________________ or a ________________.
15)   Se usa una técnica llamada _____________. En esta técnica, los acordes se construyen sobre una ___________, interpretada por un______________, un _______________ o un ________________.
16)   Another  technique is the accompanied melody where a voice or an instrument plays ________________________ and the other instruments play ______________________________
17)   Otra técnica es la melodía acompañada, en la que una voz o un instrumento toca ___________________ _____________________________ y el resto de instrumentos tocan ____________________________
18)   Contrast is used in different musical elements such as the ________________or the _______________ of each movement
19)   Se utiliza el contraste entre diferentes elementos musicales como el ______________ o el _____________ de cada movimiento.
20)   FOCUS ON ENGLISH:  In music, a movement is one part into a musical composition. In which other situations can you use the word movement?

1.2)             Instrumental music of the Baroque period
21)   In the Baroque, instrumental music achieve ____________ from vocal music
22)   En el Barroco, la música instrumental logró _________________________ de la música vocal.
23)   The development of instrumental music was due to _______________________________________ and _______________________________________________________
24)   El desarrollo de la música instrumental se dio debido a ______________________________________ y _________________________________________________________
25)   In the Baroque, the most important musical instrument was the ______________
26)   En el Barroco, el instrumento musical más importante fue __ __________________
27)   The main constructor of that instrument was a luthier called ____________________
28)   El principal constructor de ese instrument fue un lutier llamado ____________________
29)   A baroque orchestra used to have _____________________ musicians. One of those instruments played the __________________________________
30)   Una orquesta barroca solía tener ___________________ músicos. Uno de esos instrumentos tocaba siempre el _______________________________
31)   The most important music forms of the Baroque were _____________, ______________ and ____________
32)   Las formas musicales barrocas más importantes eran ______________, ______________ y ______________
33)   The sonata was a composition written for ______________________________ _____
34)   The concerto was a composition written for _____________________________________
35)   The palabra “concerto” comes from the Latin word “concertare”, that refers to the dialogue between ___________________________________________________________________________________
36)   The suite was a group of movements of _________________________________________

LISTEN, CHECK AND THINK: (PAGE 37)
37)   Why the first recording  is a concerto?
38)   ¿Por qué la primera grabación es un concierto?
39)   Why the second recording is a sonata?
40)   ¿Por qué la segunda grabación es una sonata?
41)   In which of the two recordings appears a solo instrument ?
42)   ¿En cuál de las dos grabaciones hay un solo instrumental?
43)   In the second recording, identify which families of instruments contrast in the dynamics.
44)   En la segunda grabación, identifica qué familias de instrumentos contrastan en su dinámica o intensidad.

1.3) Secular vocal music (in the Baroque period)

45)   Secular vocal music was very important to the monarchy because ______________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
46)   La música vocal profana fue muy importante para la monarquía porque _________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
47)   The opera was born when _______, ______________ and ____________ were combined
48)   La ópera nació cuando ____________, ______________ y ________________ se combinaron.
49)   Opera was born in ______________ in the ________________ century. The first opera was ______________________, written by ___________________________
50)   La ópera nació en _________________ en el siglo ______________. La primera ópera fue _________________, compuesta por _____________________
51)   In that century, the most important composer of operas was ____________________________________
52)   En ese siglo, el compositor de óperas más importante fue _______________________________________
53)   The main compositions of that composer were __________________ and __________________________
54)   Las principales composiciones de ese compositor fueron _____________________ y __________________
55)   The main characteristics of an opera is that the actors ___________________________________________
56)   La principal característica de una ópera es que los actores ________________________________________

          LISTEN, CHECK ANDTHINK: in questo lieto e fortunato giorno (PAGE 39)
57)   Determine is the singer is a tenor, a baritone or a bass
58)   Identify whether the instrument that accompanies the soloist is a string, wind or percussion instrument.
59)   What did the members of the Florentine Camerata discover about theatrical representations in ancient Greece?
60)   What they decide to do when they discovered that?
61)   How did they try to imitate the theatrical representations from the Ancient Greek?

1.3)             Religious vocal music (in the Baroque period)
62)   In the Baroque era, religious music was used by the Church:
For ________________________
An instrument to __________________________________
To __________________________________ _____________
63)   Mass and motet were used again, but two new music forms were created: the __________ and the __________

REWRITE THE SENTENCES CORRECTING THE MISTAKES
64)   The oratorio is an instrumental music form
65)   El oratorio es una forma musical instrumental
66)   The texts of the oratorio are invented
67)   Los textos de los oratorios son inventados
68)   The oratorio is represented (like the opera) and the singers acts.
69)   El oratorio se representa (igual que la ópera) y los cantantes actúan
70)   Giacomo Carissimi was one of the most important composer of oratorios.His most popular oratorio is “Messiah
71)   Giacomo Carissimi fue uno de los compositors de oratorios más importantes. Su oratorio más popular es el “Mesías”
72)   The passion is a music form exclusively related to the born of Jesus Christ
73)   La “Pasión” es una forma musical exclusivamente relacionada con el nacimiento de Jesucristo
74)   Johann Sebastian Bach es el compositor de cantatas más conocido.
75)   Juan Sebastián Bach es el compositor de cantatas más conocido.

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76)   The difference between a cantata and  a passion is that ____________________________
77)   The main composers of cantatas were_ _________________________________________

LISTEN, CHECK AND THINK (PAGE 39) Chorale from the oratorio St Matthew Passion
78)   Identify each of the sections of the chorale and decide if the second section is A, B or C
A
(0:00 – 0: 15)
¿?
(0:16-0:32)
B
(0:33-0:49)
C
(0:50-1:12)

79)   The chorale, is sung by a mixed choir or a trio of singers?
80)   Which family of instruments play the instrumental accompaniment?

1.5) Composers of Baroque music

81)   The main composers during the Baroque were ____________,  ______________ and ____________________

82)   83) 84) Complete the charts about those three composers:
Name
Nationality
Type of music  he composed
Instruments he played
Well-known compositions








Name
Nationality
Type of music  he composed
Instruments he played
Well-known compositions








Name
Nationality
Type of music  he composed
Instruments he played
Well-known compositions








LISTEN, CHECK AND THINK : Toccata in Re minor  (page 40)
85) Are the contrast between quick notes and long ones, gradual or sudden?
86) Identify which instrument plays the toccata

LISTEN, CHECK AND THINK :  Suite number 2 in Re major  (page 40)
87) Who asked Handel to compose this work?
88) Why?
89) Who and where played the concert?
90) Are the instruments woodwind or string instruments?
91) Write the name of an instrument you hear in the recording

LISTEN, CHECK AND THINK: The four seasons, Winter  (page 41)
92) Use the music to guide you as you match each description below to a section of the recording you hear:
- Winter chills
- A boy running over frozen snow
- A boy’s chattering teeth
- Strong gusts of wind

UNDERSTAND, THINK AND APPLY:
93) Identify the principal characteristics of Baroque music
94) Write the name of the three most important instrumental forms of the Baroque era
95) Identify the instruments of the Baroque orchestra
96) Describe how opera was born ant the importance of the Florentine Camerata in its creation


2) The language of the wind (pages 35 and 42)
  
   97)  Wind instruments originated in _______________________ and are used in every ________________________
98)Los instrumentos musicales de viento tienen su origen _______________________ y son usados en ____________________________________
    99)  Wind instruments can be made of different materials such as __________, ___________, _______, _________, __________ or _______________________
   100)                     Los instrumentos de viento pueden estar fabricados de diferentes materiales, como por ejemplo, as __________, ___________, _______, _________, __________ o _______________________
   101)                     One of the most ancient wind instrument was the horn, that it was used in ___________________ or while ______________________
    102)                     Uno de los instrumentos de viento más antiguos era el cuerno, que se usaba __________________ y  cuando se ___________________________
    103)                     horn is any of a family of musical instruments made of a tube, usually made of metal and often curved in various ways, with one narrow end into which the musician blows, and a wide end from which sound emerges. In horns, unlike some other brass instruments such as the trumpet, the bore gradually increases in width through most of its length—that is to say, it is conical rather than cylindrical. Write the name of three wind instruments similar to a horn.

    104)                      Wind instruments are separated into two group: _____________ and ______________

3) In sum (exercises pages 46 and 47)
    105)                      Exercise 1 page 46
    106)                      Define opera and describe each of its parts
     107)                      Write about the difference between oratorio and the opera
     108)                      Explain the function of the harpsichord in a Baroque orchestra
    109)                      Explain why the organ is a wind instrument even though it has a keyboard






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