Top favourites | Masterpieces
Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.| Lukas Foss
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EDVARD GRIEG (1842-1907) Norway |
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ANTONÍN DVORAK (1841-1907) Czech Republic |
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FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN (1810-1948) Poland |
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ISAAC ALBÉNIZ (1860-1909) Spain |
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JEAN SIBELIUS (1865-1957) Finland |
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ANTÓNIO FRAGOSO (1897-1918) Portugal |
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EDVARD GRIEG (1842-1907) Norway |
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H. WIENIAWSKI (1835-1880) Poland |
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F. LOPES-GRAÇA (1906-1994) Portugal |
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BEDRICH SMETANA (1824-1884) Czech Republic |
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ENRIQUE GRANADOS (1867-1916) Spain |
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JEAN SIBELIUS (1865-1957) Finland |
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LUÍS FREITAS BRANCO (1890-1955) Portugal |
How well do we know our 'neighbours'? | challenge
6 classical musical pieces from composers of the partners' countries will be presented to the students. (Teachers should give no hint of the names of pieces or composers! However, students must know which countries are involved in the project.) The main idea is to let students feel the 'soul' of the each people/country involved in the project through the classical music pieces. Students will have to 'guess' where each piece comes from by seeing each country's landscapes, its people, its typical way of dancing...
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POLAND
According to our project outline, Portuguese coordinator prepared a quiz 'Does your country fit into a piece of music". Students were suposed to recognize a country listening to a piece by a composer from a given country. The task turned out to be quite difficult for Polish students but they weren't discouraged anyway. some students were quite good at feeling the country's soul hidden in music, some lacked imagination. This interesting activity showed our teenagers need more knowledge and sensitivity. They are 14 and 15 so they still have time to develop these skills:-) | Weronika Kuś (PL)
CZECH REPUBLIC
Our group tried to guess the music from Spain, Finland, the Czech Republic, Norway, Portugal and Poland. There were 11 students in the group. The most difficult was Portuguese music and the easiest was Spanish, because they heard castanets. They were not sure about Czech and Polish music, maybe because we are both Slovonic nations and the music was similar. In both examples there were dances. Finish music was calm and cool and the students said that the music reminded them Scandinavian cold environment.
We liked this activity very much and the music was interesting and beautiful. | Naděžda Kadlecová (CZ)
We liked this activity very much and the music was interesting and beautiful. | Naděžda Kadlecová (CZ)
SPAIN
Aim: This activity was designed to improve both pupils' classic music listening skills and to build their awareness of partner schools national culture. Procedure: We started it with a short explanation about what everyone in the target group of 10 pupils of 1st secondary class was expected to do. Namely, to get full recognition of the country and composer's name of the pieces. Then, all of them were played at ramdom - first as a whole and later in fragments. As soon as a piece was finished, pupils would have to note down their choice. Later a volunteer pointed to a map of Europe the country which the listened music belong to and/or write it down on the whiteboard. Results: All the pupils who sit the exam but two succeeded in recognizing both composer's name and the country he was from. Only two failed with the Portuguese part. Most of them found it hard to make out Norway and Czech music. Comment & Bottomline: On the whole, the good performance can be put down to pupils' motivation. To make feel themselves as responsible participants in this project has also played an important role in the final outcome. | Paulino Tamayo (SP) |
PORTUGAL
These are the Portuguese results for the "Does your country 'fit' in a piece of music?" challenge. 75 Portuguese students answered this challenge. As you can see the best known music is from Spain. But, surprise, surprise, Portuguese students could NOT recognize the music from their OWN country! I knew this was an extremely difficult challenge, but I was sure my students would know the music from Spain and from Portugal. It seems I was wrong... at least about Portugal. A special Thank You to all my wonderful partners and students that willingly made this challenge. The conclusions I picked up from these results will be very helpful for my future projects. Thanks again. | Manuela Correia (PT) |