PERFORMANCE

Hambone

1 To make music you can use every-day objects like brooms, buckets and lids. Listen, learn and sing.

Hambone, Hambone, Where you've been? Around the world and back again.

Hambone, Hambone, Where's your wife?

In the kitchen cooking rice.

Hambone, hambone, Have you heard?

Mama's gonna buy me a mocking bird.

If that mocking bird don't sing.

Mama's gonna buy me a diamond ring.

If that diamond ring don't shine.

Mama's gonna buy me a fishing line.

If that fishing line should break.

Mama's gonna throw it in the lake. If that water splash on me.

Mama's gonna beat my b.u.t.

Hambone! (×4)

2 Listen and accompany with different percussion-like objects.

3 Find everyday objects to use and accompany the song above.

Baroque composers

The concerto is one of the most characteristic musical forms from the Baroque period. It is music written for one or more solo instruments and an accompanying orchestra. When there is more than one soloist, the concerto is called a concerto grosso.

1 Listen to these fragments from Baroque concertos and identify the soloist instruments. Write in your notebook the name of each instrument that you hear.

These are the main soloist instruments in Baroque concertos.

Number each instrument on the right with the number that corresponds to the correct composer.

Canon barroco

A canon is a musical form in which the first instrument or voice plays a melody and after a certain number of beats, is followed by voices that repeat it in succession.

When each voice enters is indicated using numbers in the score.

1 Listen, learn, and play the canon using percussion instruments. Pay attention to the repeat signs.

Canon

Was one of the main English Baroque composers. He composed the opera Dido and Aeneas in 1689. He also composed instrumental music, religious music, and songs.