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Four violins for four seasons?
Aimed at a middle school class less, including both music education and arts education and / or technical assistance.
INTRODUCTION | Ladies and gentlemen, here is Nigel Kennedy, the original and famous violinist, in a staging of Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi never before! Four locations and four violins different for each of the seasons. |
TASK | In collaboration with prof. Art Education, we a team of skilled engineers / designers who know how to rework the form, materials and color of the violin under the current season. We must therefore draw the violin "Spring" violin "Summer", the fiddle "Autumn" and the violin "Winter". The design will of course be supported by competent luthiers and musicians and music critics supervising the work of designers, making sure that the proportions and materials assumed to be realistic so that the instrument will play once done. The makers prepare a technical file providing some historical and deepening stages of the construction of a violin (data, proportions, materials, paints, etc.).. With the help of musicians and critics, moreover, the designer must enhance the visual aspects musical instrument / sound that characterize Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Every musician is need to prepare a text that tell the season Vivaldi reference listening and sharing with fellow designer. Finally, the photo workers (designers) will find the images likely to form the scenic backdrop of the show, season by season. Although this activity will be accompanied by the musicians who will evaluate the effectiveness of any proposed background on the season he holds dear. |
PROCEDURE | The class will be divided into four teams ("Spring", "Summer", "Autumn" and "Winter"), referring to the season. Each team will consist of six elements and divided among themselves into three subgroups: some designers (chief designer of the violin, designer assistant, stock clerk), a violin maker, some musicians and music critics. |
RESOURCES | I selected some useful links to luthiers and musicians to complete their work. Consult them in the space reserved to our blog about Deliciuos.com: see bookmarks and choose the tag "webquest1. Also, do not forget to use Wikipedia.it and Google.it to navigate and obtain other useful information. www.wikipedi a.it particularly http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_quattro_stagioni www.google.it |
ASSESSMENT | The graphic design and choice of background scenery : - technical quality of the drawing or photo, - originality, - communicative power . - accuracy in the collection of information, - capacity of synthesis and processing of the material found , - usefulness of information in order to achieve the sketch. - Music relevance of the above, - creative ability to organize the speech in order to reflect the story by listening to Vivaldi's sound. addition, there will be a collective evaluation, including : - ability to organize and optimize the teamwork , - punctuality in delivery (there are 3 weeks including meetings and hours of art education) |
CONCLUSION | This experience allows students to investigate the characteristics of a stringed instrument, alongside the creative fun and play a critical composition. You will then have the opportunity to know the parts of the violin, in conjunction with the expressive possibilities and revisited in his curious form / aesthetics. |
THANKS | http://www.aula21.net/ for putting on a free Web Quest generator used. |