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Student Assignment

 
 

Scavenger hunt

J.S. Bach

1. In What year was Bach Born? __________________________________
2. When did he die? ____________________________________________
3. During which musical era did he compose? _________________________
4. What was his relationship to math? _______________________________
5. Where did he work? __________________________________________
6. Did he write mostly sacred or secular music? SACRED / SECULAR
7. Give the URL of a site about Bach not linked to the early music home page.
http:// _______________________________________________________
 

Pan

1. What was Pan the God of? _____________________________________
2. Who was Syrinx?_____________________________________________
3. Why was she transformed into a bed of reeds? _______________________
____________________________________________________________
4. Was Pan Handsome? YES / NO
 

Greek Gods

1. What are the three categories of Gods?
    1.______________________________
    2.______________________________
    3.______________________________
2. How many children do Uranus and Gaea have? _______________________
3. Who rules the universe before Zeus? _______________________________
4. If you forget to do your homework, you could blame it on which god? (hint: the goddess of memory)
    __________________________________________________________
5. Who was Nike? ______________________________________________
 

Medieval Period

1. Is most of the music from this period sacred or secular? SACRED / SECULAR
2. Why don’t we know many Medieval Composers? ______________________
_____________________________________________________________
3. List three composer that we do know worked during this period.
    1. _____________________________________________
    2. _____________________________________________
    3. _____________________________________________
 

Music

Link #1
1. What year was the Medieval Plainchant titled "The Sacred Bridge" recorded by the Boston Camerata directed by Joel Cohen? _____________________________________
2. When is the next early music concert in our area? ________________________
3. Why is chant called Gregorian? ______________________________________
    ______________________________________________________________
Link #2
1. Who performed non-religious music? __________________________________
2. What were the three most important instruments of the medieval era?
    1. _________________________________________________
    2. _________________________________________________
    3. _________________________________________________
4. How are minstrels related to mailmen? _________________________________
5. What was the early form of musical notation called? _______________________
6. Who literally had a hand in creating the modern musical scale? ________________
Link #3
1. What is the essence of baroque music? __________________________________
    _______________________________________________________________
2. What was Bach’s favorite instrument? __________________________________
3. What are two types of bows for stringed instruments?
    1. _________________________________________
    2. _________________________________________
4. What color is the Organ the Gottfried Silbermann built in Dittersdorf (S.E. of Dresden)?
    ________________________________________________________________
Link #4
1. Join and lurk in a Newsgroup about Bach that is listed in Bach Central Station.  Newsgroup joined (note this will not be an http address): ______________________________________________
2. How many Bach related sites are in Bach Central Station? _____________________
3. Tour Bach’s Homeland and tell me how much I would pay to attend the Sommer Orgel Konzerte (Summer Organ Concert). _______________________________________________
4. Who said, "Handel is the greatest composer who ever lived.   I would bare my head and kneel at his grave"? _____________________________________________________________
 

Instruments

Link #2
1. What are the 8 instruments in a Renaissance Consort?
    1. _____________________________________
    2. _____________________________________
    3. _____________________________________
    4. _____________________________________
    5. _____________________________________
    6. _____________________________________
    7. _____________________________________
    8. _____________________________________
2. What other 5 consorts are referenced here?
    1. _____________________________________
    2. _____________________________________
    3. _____________________________________
    4. _____________________________________
    5. _____________________________________
3. How long should a violin last with proper care and maintenance?________________
4. Some professionals play very old violins from what century? ___________________
5. It is important to clean a violin to remove colophony.  What is that? ______________
    ________________________________________________________________
6. What kind of wood is usually used in construction of a violin? ___________________
7. What is the purfling of a violin? _________________________________________
 

Art

1. Describe the scene in Marguerite de Navarre from the Bodleian Library. __________
    ________________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________________
2. How accurate is the Bodleian’s Anatomical Illustration? VERY / SOMEWHAT / NOT AT ALL
3. What panel is at the very center of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel? ______________
4. Who posed for the Mona Lisa? _________________________________________
5. Find a link for other Da Vinci pages and give the URL here.
    http://________________________________________
 

Castles

1. If you visit the Irish Castle in County Cork, what could you kiss there? __________________
2. What is the Gift of Gab? ____________________________________________________
3. When was the Kilkea Castle Built? ____________________________________________
4. According to the floor plans for the Welch castle of Dolbadarn, how many towers are there?___
5. Go to the Castle Attic.  For what war was the Crecy Short Sword made? _________________

History
1. What is the most important reason the Crusades took place? __________________________
    _______________________________________________________________________
2. If you were a peasant fighting in the crusades, what would happen when you returned? _______
    _______________________________________________________________________
3. During what year in the 14th century were spectacles (eye glasses) first recorded? __________
4. In what year did Greek replace Latin as the official language of the Eastern Roman
    Empire?__________________________________________________________________
5. What happened in the Delaware River Gap around 8000 BC? ___________________________
    _________________________________________________________________________
6. When looking at the Mediterranean Region in 1492, we call it the “Mediterranean World”.  Why? 
    _________________________________________________________________________
    _________________________________________________________________________
7. In the “Mediterranean World”, what caused the doomsday mentality?
    1. _________________________________________________
    2. _________________________________________________
    3. _________________________________________________
    4. _________________________________________________
    5. _________________________________________________
    6. _________________________________________________
8. How old was Columbus when the name America was Invented? ________________________
 
 
 

 Group Projects

Create pan pipes using materials found in your home.
Make a visual representation of the Greek God Family Tree.
Act out a scene from the Virtual Field Trip to the Renaissance.
Learn a card game that was popular during the Renissance. Teach it to the class
The Sistine Chapel restoration has caused great controversy in the art world.  Before the chapel was restored, it was though to be dark and dull and people assumed that this was the style of Michelangelo.  Only one of his paintings was restored before the chapel.  It is possible that the agents used to clean the panels changed the color of the paint.  Were the restorers right to undertake this project?  (Note how extremely different the painting is now.)  Prepare for a debate with a 150 word essay and 5 note cards.

How will my presentation be graded?