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Language through Music Joanna Glaiser IH Rome-Manzoni CLIL
Language through Music
Joanna Glaiser IH Rome-Manzoni
CLIL
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Assumptions
- Students know names of instruments
- Can identify the sound of individual instruments
- Are aware of musical instrument families
(e.g. wind, brass, strings etc)
- Understand how each family produces sound
- Have a grasp of rhythm and simple notation
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Listen and remember
your animal
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How it
moves
What
sound it
makes
What it
eats
Physical
description
Where it
lives
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woodwind
percussion
string
keyboard
brass
familyis part of the
double bass
glockenspiel
violin
piano
flute
cello
The
sound
low
High-pitched
mellow
soft
piercing
bright
warm
metallic
muddy
It can make a
DESCRIBE THE INSTRUMENTS
SCAFFO
LDING FO
R SPEAKING
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Which of the above instruments would you use to describe each animal? Why?
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It’s carnival time!
The animals are having a party
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Carnival of the AnimalsCamille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
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Musical elements used
to identify
mood/characteristics of
the animal
InstrumentsAnimalExtract
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Music can have many
interpretations
Here is one possible analysis of
The Royal March of the LionThe Royal March of the Lion
Listen and match
D. Jumping to his feet 4.
C. Roaring3.
B. Waking up and stretching2.
A. Marching majestically 1.
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Carnival of the AnimalsCamille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
An interpretation of the music
Rippling piano accompaniment as the swan
gracefully glides thorough the waterCello and pianoTHE SWAN7
The flute takes the part of the bird flying
around and twittering with occasional sounds
of other birds in the distance (trills on piano).Piano, strings, fluteBIRDS6.
Violins alternate between high glissandos and
low buzzing notes = braying.ViolinsDONKEYS5.
Sea creatures glide and create ripples-
glissando effects on piano and glockenspiel-
peaceful melody played on strings and flute
Piano, flute, strings,
glockenspielTHE AQUARIUM4.
Another musical joke - a heavy and plodding
dance with a more melodic middle section as
the elephant attempts some twirls!Double bass, pianoELEPHANTS3.
Musical joke - the fast theme of “cancan”
played extremely slowly depicting these
animals as they plod along.Piano and stringsTORTOISES2.
Introduction- Lions wake up and stretch
before jumping to their feet. A slow majestic
march with chromatic scales ↑and ↓ = roars.
First on pianos then strings
Piano and stringsLIONS1.
Musical elements used to
identify animal?Instruments?Animal?Extract
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Who’s this?
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Camille Saint-Saëns 1.____________________ Camille Saint-Saëns was born in Paris in October 1835. Three months after his birth his father died and his mother’s aunt Charlotte came to live with them. He began piano lessons with Charlotte at the age of two and soon after started writing music as well. Camille was a child prodigy but he wasn’t only talented in music. He could read by age three and knew latin by seven. Camille was only eleven when he gave his debut concert and as an encore he offered to play any one of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas from memory.
2.____________________ Two years later in 1848 he became an organ student at the Paris conservatoire, but continued to make his name as a young composer. He wrote his first symphony when he was 16 years old and soon became one of Europe’s best-known composers. When he was 22 he became organist at the Église de la Madeleine, an important church in Paris. He was also a music teacher and one of his most famous students was Gabriel Fauré.
3.____________________ Saint-Saëns’s private life wasn’t completely happy. In 1875, at the age of 40, he fell in love with 19-year-old Marie-Laure Truffot and they got married. They had 2 children but in 1878 both children died: André, aged 2, fell from a 4th floor window and his baby brother Jean became ill and died. Three years later, during a holiday, he left Marie-Laure and she never saw him again. After his mother’s death in 1888, Camille started travelling. He visited North America, South America and Sri Lanka before spending his last years in Algiers. He died there of pneumonia on 16 December 1921. He was honoured with a state funeral at La Madeleine.
4.____________________ Saint-Saëns had a lot of interests. He loved history and was an expert on ancient Roman art and architecture. He wrote poetry and essays about music. Sometimes he made enemies because he insulted his friends when he wrote about them. He was also interested in astronomy and once interrupted an important rehearsal to watch an eclipse of the moon.
5.____________________ During his lifetime, he composed over 300 works, including 13 operas, 3 symphonies, concertos for violin, cello and piano, chamber music and was the first major composer to write music for the cinema. One of his most well-known compositions is Carnival of the Animals which was written to make fun of his friends. This work was performed once in Paris in 1886 but Saint-Saëns didn’t want it to be played again or published until after his death.
Read about Saint-Saëns and match the titles with the paragraphs.
A. Tragedy in the family B. Early brilliance C. His music
D. Establishing himself as a musician
E. Non-musical interests
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A. Read the text again and complete the top half of the timeline. Then exchange information with student B and complete the bottom half.
Camille Saint-Saëns
____ ____ ____ ____ _______ ______
1835 ____ 1848 _____ 1878 _____ 1921
He became organist at the famous
church La Madeleine
Carnival of the Animals
was performed
He started piano lessons
with his great-aunt Charlotte
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B. Read the text again and complete the bottom half of the timeline. Then exchange information with student A and complete the top half.
Camille Saint-Saëns
____ 1846 ____ 1875 _______ 1888
___ ____ ____ _____ ____ _____ ______
He wrote his first
symphony
He left
his wife
His
father
died
THANK YOU!
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