14.4 Classical music - tto123

14.4 Classical music - tto123

Classical music

Introduction

The subject of this period is classical music.

  • Form groups of three or four pupils.

Discuss the following questions in your group:

  • What do you know about classical music?
  • Which classical composers do you know?
  • What do you think of classical music? Do you like it or not, and why?
  • Do you know any people who play or listen to classical music?
  • What kind of instruments are used in classical music?

Step

Activity

Aim

Time

 

Introduction

Find out what you already know.

10

Step 1

Listening
The history of music

You can understand a video about the history of music and answer questions about it.

15

Step 2

Reading
Henry Purcell

You can understand a text about Henry Purcell and answer questions about it.

15

Step 3

Vocabulary

You can understand and use the vocabulary about music.

15

Step 4

Grammar
Grammar test

You can take a grammar test.

15

Step 5

Speaking
Comparing instruments

You can compare instruments.

10

Step 6

Writing
A review about Dido and Aeneas

You can write a review about Dido and Aeneas.

15

Step 7

Evaluation

Reflect on what you have learnt.

05

Step 8

Extra
Listen to Classical Music

Watch the video.

 

Step 1 - Listening

The history of music

You are going to watch a video about the history of music.

  • Watch the video and do assignment 1.
  • Read the questions.
  • Watch the video again and do assignment 2.

Assignment 1

Download the worksheet and fill in the grid (on your own) and discuss the answers in your group.

Questions

  1. Who are obsessed with power?
  2. What do European nations crave for?
  3. Which composer is NOT in this video?
  4. What is said about the music of classical composers?
  5. What information do you get about the Baroque era?
  6. What information do you get about Viennese Classisism?
  7. What information do you get about Romantism?
  8. What information do you get about Classical singers?

Step 2 - Reading

Henry Purcell

You are going to read a text about the famous English composer Henry Purcell.

  • Read the text and do assignment 1.
  • Read the text again and do assignment 2.
  • Optional: assignment 3.

Assignment 1

Download the worksheet and fill in the grid (on your own) and discuss the answers in your group.

Text: Henry Purcell

​Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell (10 September 1659– 21 November 1695) was an English composer. Although incorporating Italian and French stylistic elements into his compositions, Purcell's legacy was a uniquely English form of Baroque music. He is generally considered to be one of the greatest English composers.

Purcell is said to have been composing at nine years old, but the earliest work that can be certainly identified as his is an ode for the King's birthday, written in 1670. (The dates for his compositions are often uncertain, despite considerable research.) He attended Westminster School and in 1676 was appointed copyist at Westminster Abbey.

In 1679 Purcell devoted himself almost entirely to the composition of sacred music, and for six years severed his connection with the theatre. Between 1680 and 1688 Purcell wrote music for seven plays. The composition of his chamber opera Dido and Aeneas, which forms a very important landmark in the history of English dramatic music, has been attributed to this period, and its earliest production may well have predated the documented one of 1689. It was written to a libretto furnished by Nahum Tate, and performed in 1689 in cooperation with Josias Priest, a dancing master and the choreographer for the Dorset Garden Theatre. Priest's wife kept a boarding school for young gentlewomen, first in Leicester Fields and afterwards at Chelsea, where the opera was performed. It is occasionally considered the first genuine English opera, the action does not progress in spoken dialogue but in Italian-style recitative. The composition of Dido and Aeneas gave Purcell his first chance to write a sustained musical setting of a dramatic text. It was his only opportunity to compose a work in which the music carried the entire drama.

In 1692, he composed The Fairy-Queen (an adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream), the score of which (his longest for theatre) was rediscovered in 1901 and published by the Purcell Society.

Purcell died in 1695 at his home in Dean's Yard, Westminster, at the height of his career.

Assignment 3

Have you got time left and are you curious what music by Purcell sounds like?

Listen to this.

Step 3 - Vocabulary

  • Study the vocabulary. (10 minutes)
  • Do the exercise.

Vocabularylist Classical music

Step 4 - Grammar

You are going to take a grammar test.

  • Revise the grammar of theme 14.
  • Take the grammar test.

Have a look at the:

Present perfect

Present perfect continuous

Adverb

Adjective

Step 5 - Speaking

You now get a chance to practise your speaking in various different situations that are all related to the theme. Practise as many as you can!
If you have enough time, use the peer-feedback form.
Make a copy of the worksheet on your own account (File - Make a copy ...) or download the worksheet (File - Download as)..​

Comparing instruments

Download the worksheet: Comparing instruments.
On the worksheet there are images of various instruments.

Task:

  • Work together with a classmate.
  • Each of you chooses one instrument.
  • Write down the English name of this instrument.
  • Discuss the instruments you chose together: What are the differences between them? Which instrument do you find more interesting or more beautiful? Can you play these instruments?

When you're finished, choose two different instruments.

Step 6 - Writing

A review about Dido and Aeneas

You have read a text about Henry Purcell and maybe you have already listened to a piece of the opera ‘Dido and Aeneas’. Now you are going to write a review about it.

  • Listen to the music.
  • Introduce the subject.
  • What do you think of this piece of music?
  • Should other people listen to it as well? Yes or no? Explain why.

Ask your teacher how many words you have to use.

Step 7 - Evaluation

What have you learnt in this period?

Answer the following questions:

  • What was the easiest part of this lesson?
  • What did you already know?
  • What was the most difficult part?
  • What was new to you in this lesson?
  • What do you have to ask your teacher?

Step 8 - Extra

How to Listen to Classical Music: General Ideas

  • Watch the video.
  • What do you think of classical music?
  • Come up with two questions that can be answered by the video.
    Ask your classmate to answer the questions.

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    Toelichting
    Deze les valt onder de arrangeerbare leerlijn van de Stercollectie voor Engels voor tweetalig onderwijs, leerjaar 1, 2 en 3. Dit is thema 14 'Spare time and music'. Het onderwerp van deze les is: Classical music. Deze les gaat over muziekgeschiedenis, muziekstijlen, muziekinstrumenten en muzikanten. Ook wordt Henry Purcell als voorbeeld genoemd van een componist. In het grammaticaonderdeel wordt een toets gegeven van alle behandelde onderdelen in thema 14 (bijwoord, bijvoeglijk naamwoord, present perfect en present perfect continuous).
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    arrangeerbaar, classical music, engels, grammaticatoets, muziekgeschiedenis, muziekinstrumenten, muziekstijlen, muzikanten, stercollectie, tto123

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