1/30/09

LEARN MORE ABOUT CLASSICAL MUSIC..

http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-themes-classical-music.htm





Classical music is a broad, somewhat imprecise term, referring to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of, European art, ecclesiastical and concert music, encompassing a broad period from roughly 1000 to the present day.


Magazine article: Everything you (n)ever wanted to know about Mozart. Did you know that Mozart was a keen and skilful billiard player? Or that he had a slight deformity of his left ear, usually kept covered by his wig? Read article

Word game: Orchestra. Read the text describing the positions of the different instruments, sections and other components of an orchestra and put the names in the correct places. Play game

Story: A perfectly fair business deal. Hobbes-Smith collects antique musical instruments. At a music festival in Italy, he sees a valuable violin which he wants to add to his collection. Is the owner prepared to sell it? Read this story and find out. Read story

Story: The Comeback. When the once-great opera singer Fausto Ruiz returns to the place where he was born, things do not work out as he had expected ... Read story

Cartoon: "What on earth are you doing?" "You told me to listen to ..." See cartoon

Cartoon: "My tuba's broken. How can I fix it?" "Why don't you use a ..." See cartoon

Trivia: Numbers: On 17 June 1872, Johann Strauss the younger (1825-99) conducted an orchestra of 987 pieces supported by a choir of 20,000, at the World Peace Jubilee in Boston, USA See more classical music trivia


For all these click the link above and have fun!!

6 comments:

Unknown said...

Classical music makes people relax but sometimes people can't endure classical music. game which is on the web sites is little mixed. because the area which u work is too small and the blanks&words make eyes bad=)

Unknown said...

where is everbody???=)

Hüseyin(HHS) said...

here

cemre said...

i support to classical music in our country... i think fazil say is one of the best pianist on the world. he participates turkey on the world. this blog was good and i remembered that my mental healthy needs listening vivaldi, bethooven, bach or fazil say because of this blog.. thanx teacher.. kisses 4 u =)=*********....

mine said...

Thanks for the comments,I am looking forward to your new comments and contribution.Let's share and make learning more enjoyable:-)

Unknown said...

when i wote that everybody was at pc lab=)=)