PERFORMANCE Ugly Monsters

1 Listen, learn and sing. Get into two groups and give a Halloween performance.

How am I supposed To play the violin, When all those ugly monsters They get under my skin.

(repeat)

The conductor’s watching I try to turn the page, But a skull begins to Bite me on the face.

When I begin to read the music on my sheet, a big and ugly spectre shows up under my feet.

Chorus

Just in the right moment I have to play my part, A thirty-two-foot dragon Will snort and push me back.

Here comes a music rest I mustn’t make a sound, But a crazy baby gnome On my head begins to pound.

Chorus

When the semibreves I begin to hold, Two big fangs stick out And start to prick my nose.

When the semibreves I begin to hold, Two big fangs stick out And start to prick my nose.

Chorus

Don’t look ahead or back You know they’re all around, You mustn’t get distracted And let your audience down.

(repeat)

EVERYONE

Group 1

Group 2

Use Your Imagination

2 Choreograph a dance to go with the chorus and dance with your group when you hear it.

1 Listen, practise and dance the following English dance in a circle.

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Everyone lets their hands go and stands in place

Turn around in place

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: left foot

: tap your left foot q : put your right foot behind your left foot q : put your left foot behind your right foot

John Playford (1623-1686)

Newcastle

Music And Culture

CULTURA MUSICAL Music in the Baroque period

The Baroque period was characterised by the development of an art form seeking perfection. Music was ornate and creative. Above all, it tried to evoke surprise and amazement in the public.

It was the golden age of music: no social event was complete without the presence of music. If there was no event to celebrate, they created one, whether it was in a church, a palace ballroom or a theatre.

It was the era when a particular grandiose instrument was at its height: the pipe organ. Its powerful and solemn sound is spectacular and imposing.

During the Baroque period there were many works of art composed for the pipe organ.

During the Baroque period, instrumental music developed greatly and experienced a richness of forms and genres.

Musicians would meet to play together in palace ballrooms. These were the first concerts.

Opera was born with the union of literature and theatre. It is a musical genre that was basically musical theatre.

The best violin makers come from this era. They were called luthiers. Violins made by Stradivarius are genuine masterpieces.