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What?
What?
We are learning:
- musical facts from Ancient civilisations.
- Songs from the past
- Musical elements connected to specific cultures
Why?
Why?
We want to understand:
- Form - Characteristics of civilisations and societies.
- Connection - Connections between past and present
- Reflection - How can we create our own musical style.
How?
How?
To achieve this, we will use our:
- Research skills
- Gathering and analysing information from different sources
- Thinking skills
- Critical thinking to follow models
- Creative thinking to apply our knowledge to create new products
Throughout our integration with the unit of inquiry "Civilisations", we will learn how music was used in some ancient civilisations. We started by learning a bit about the origins of music:
On this Playlist, you can find all the videos we will use during this unit.
We will turn our inquiries towards four particular civilisations: the Vikings, Ancient China, Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece.
We will do some research into their music and practise some of the musical elements that they used and that are still present in today's music.
Below you can find links to the sites we will use for our research:
Click on the image below to visit the site to inquire about music of the Vikings
Music of the Vikings. Research.pdfThis is the worksheet you can use to guide your inquiry about Viking music
As we explored the Vikings and their music, we learned to sing and play the song "Dromte mig en drom in nat" (I dreamed a dream), the first written song that was found in Scandinavia around the 13th century. Check out our skills:
20190117_140159.mp420190117_144234.mp4During our exploration of Music in Ancient China, we learned to play the song "Jasmine Flower", a great example of the use of the pentatonic scale to describe nature:
Jasmine Flower2.mp4Jasmine Flower1.mp4
Click on the image above to visit the site to inquire about music in Ancient China
This is the worksheet you can use to guide your inquiry about Chinese music
Music of China. Research.pdfClick on the image below to visit the site to inquire about music in Ancient Greece
Click here to find videos of Ancient Greek Music:
Music in Ancient Greece. Research.pdfThis is the worksheet you can use to guide your inquiry about Greek music
Click on the image above to visit the site to inquire about music in Ancient Egypt
This is the worksheet you can use to guide your inquiry about Egyptian music
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