Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Hi class!

Have you ever listened to the music of this prodigious man?
It is fantastic!

Let's read something about Mozart's life:

He was born in Salzburgo on the 27th of January in 1756 and died in Viena on the 5th of December in 1791.

 

He was a prolific Austrian composer and pianist of the Classical era.

 

 He's considerated as one of the most featured musician in the history of the music.He composed over 600 works.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

His father was also a composer and a teacher. He taught his son to play the piano and the violin and compose obviously.   

 

 

 

When he was only five years old, he could compose little pieces of music.

 

 

 

 

 

                                

     

 

 

 

 

Mozart was a versatile composer and wrote opera, symphony, the solo concerto, chamber music including string quartet and string quintet and the piano sonata.   


 These forms were not new, but Mozart advanced their technical sophistication and emotional reach. He almost single-handedly developed and popularized the Classical Piano concerto   

           
 He also wrote a great deal of religious music.                       

 

  Here you have a video with one famous composition of Mozart called ``Rondo Alla Turca´´

Mozart wrote lots of pieces of music but he also travelled a lot. One of his most famous tour started in the 9th of January in 1736 and lasted three years and six months!
 

Before saying the questions I want to tell you that Mozart was (in my opinion)

            the best compositor and pianist in the world.It´s a pity because he didn't receive any award

Now the questions:

1.-Did Mozart have any children?

2.-Do you know which disease killed Mozart?
 

3.-In which cemetery rest Mozart?

4.-Do you agree with my opinion? Why/Why not? 

 
                                               5.-What is the baptismal name of Mozart?

 
6.-Which was the last work he composed?

That's all!

BYE

THE YOUTUBE GENERATION.

YouTube is a video-sharing website. It was created in 2005 by three employees of PayPal. Google bouthg it in exchange of 1,650 millions dollars.
Today, in 2012, to see all the videos, you need 1700 years!!

There are some famous people that start uploading videos in YouTube, like:

Justin Bieber:

Russian Red:

JPelirrojo (Worten):

This the first video on YouTube.

These are the questions (you must find the answers):

1-Do you meet another YouTuber? Tell us what he does.

2-Do you know the name of the person that is talking in the video?

3-If you want to be a YouTuber, what kind of videos will you upload?

4-Can you tell a song oj JPelirrojo and what he does on his videos?

The End of the World

As you know, there are many versions about the end of the world. I'm going to talk about the Maya’s belief.  According to the Mayan calendar, the end of the world will come on December 21, 2012. They say that there won't be a disaster, but we will live more united to our souls.

Some people say ‘the end of the world will not arrive because the Mayan calendar hasn’t got leap-years’. So, the world’s end should has been seven months ago… I don’t know if it is true or false, but… do you really believe in the prediction of the Mayans? What will happen if it were true? It’s really mysterious… 

I want to show you a video where a man says us some things about the supposed end of the world. Click here to watch it. 

Some pictures about the supposed end...


Some Mayans say that the world will end because jaguars will come to kill us, or due to volcanoes, earthquakes… But the popular version that a Mayan man said is:
‘In the sky there is a shape like a snake; on its side there are symbols of constellations and in its womb there are signs of solar and lunar eclipses. From its open mouth, falls a flow of water into the ground. Under the snake of the sky, the Old Goddess with long nails like claws, she is the queen of death and destruction. At the bottom, the black head of war and in it two javelins and a long stick, all of them pointing down...’

- In my opinion, this is a little fantastic.  But no one guesses the future, so we can only wait…

1. If the world really had ended… What would you like to do before December 21?

       

2. There are many different versions about it, can you tell me any of them that you are interesting?

     

  3. Do you know that Mayan calendar has not leap-years? What do you think about it?

4. Who is the Old Goddess? Had you ever heard in other occasion?  

I hope you enjoy with my post! Don't forget to watch the video please, it is interesting!

THE MUSIC

What is the music?  

For me music is a language, a way to express what you feel through a song.

The life of a musician is something unique. Although most people do not really appreciate us. They believe that being a musician is a profession without future or it's something easy to do. But the reality is that when you are a musician,the music absorbs most of your time, a good musician not only born,  but makes! it takes hours, days and years of dedication to become a good musician, it takes discipline and commitment. The truth is that the musician's life is not easy, often reject invitations to parties, we miss birthdays and much more so that you can enjoy the live music. We walk up and down,  spent hours standing on stage and play or sing, but we exhausted all that we do because it's what we like, music is our job, our hobby and our passion.

Just think: What would the world be without music? ... Without musicians?

Now I will talk about some instruments:

                              STRADIVARIUS VIOLINS

Stradivarius violins are the most treasured musical instruments in the world. They are famous for their sound.There are many theories about these violins. Many believed that the varnish used by Stradivarius was made from a secret formula that was lost by dying his creator, but X-ray examinations and spectrum analysis on the surface of the violins revealed that all underwent changes in its structure (especially mango, the tailpiece and strings), and often all that remains of the original work is the same body that was revarnishing periodically.

                             BUFFET CRAMPON CLARINETS

In 1825 a French instrument maker, Denis Buffet-Auger, established his workshop in the heart of Paris. The name was well known in the music world thanks to the excellent production of clarinets of 13 keys.For years Buffet Crampon is awarded with many awards that attest to the quality of their instruments. Thus Buffet Crampon becomes the preferred brand of the largest institutions and figures on the music scene, as the Paris Conservatory, Concerts Lamoureux Orchestra Toscanini's famous in New York, or soloists of the Paris Opera or the Opera Comique.

   

                                            VINCENT BACH

Vincent Bach combined his unique talents as a musician and an engineer to create brass instruments with a sound that today is still highly sought after by professionals worldwide. After trumpet part as some of the best orchestras in the U.S., Bach began his career in 1918 as a builder of instruments in 1924 and creates the first Bach trumpets. Professional Trumpeters referred to as the "Stardivarius" of the trumpet, and that inspired the manufacturer to create the brand Bach Stradivarius. At age 71, in 1962, Vincent Bach decides to sell his company to the group The Selmer Company, remain confident that their guidelines to get the trumpet sound preferred by professionals.

THE QUESTIONS:

1- Do you like music? Do you play any instruments?

2- How many Stradivarius violins were made? How many there are now? 

3- Which set of trumpets is the most famous? (Vincent Bach brand)

4- How long is the bell of a trumpet? 

5- Who created the R13 clarinet? What year?

6- What clarinet is launched in 2009 by Buffet Crampon brand?

I HOPE YOU LIKE MY ENTRY.

THE ECCE HOMO

Hello ladies and gentlemen! Today I will talk about the Ecce Homo (as you can see in the title).

The Ecce Homo don't was allways this. This is the Ecce Homo before his restauration. Its looks funny!
The real picture was this:

Some people said that this picture is destroyed but, ¿is this really bad? NO because now the church who have the Ecce Homo is receiving a lot of tourist! This picture have parodies and even a wine! I've seen a lot of jokes about the Ecce Homo. More or less like this:

The autor of the restauration was Cecilia Giménez. When the people take the picture she said "I have not finished!". The village where this picture is placed is Borja. And I think that could be funny if I give you a video so, here it is!:

OK now you have to tell me what you know about Ecce Homo:

1- Who is the real autor of this picture?

2-  When was this picture painted?

3- When it was restaured?

4-  What's the meaning of Ecce Homo in spanish?

5- Tell me your opinion of the restauration. Is a good or a bad idea to remove it?

So, that's all. I hope you enjoyed it and have nice day! Bye!

WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT WORLD RECORDS?

The famous book “Guinness World Records” is a book which contains a collection of humans or any natural thing records. It is the most sell book with copyright in the world but it is also the most stoled in the USA libraries.

This book appeared when, in 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver went hunting and  his partners and he discussed about the fastest hunting bird in Europe. They thought that a book could keep the answers to this type of questions. It was released on 27 August 1955.

Some curious records are: 

                

                 *The dog with the biggest ears in the world.

                   The right ear measures 31, 7 cm and the left 

                   ear measures 34 cm.

 *The biggest violin in the world. It was created by a musical industry in Vogtlan, Germany. They created a violin with 4, 2 meters high and 1, 23 meters wide. It has a 5, 1 meters long bow, ¡seven times more than a normal violin! It takes three people to play it.

                        *The women with the longest nails in the world. 

                         The owner of this nails is Chris (she receives

                         the name of “The countess”) and the measure 

                         of the longest nail in the right hand is 2,88 m, 

                         and in the left hand it measures 3, 09.

              

 *The man with the biggest number of piercings 

 in his body. His name is Rolf Buchholz and he

 has 453 piercings in total. Only in his lips he

 had 94 pearcings.

* And the most recent record, which is in the mouth of almost all people at the moment is the one which Felix Baumgartner stablished yesterday (It would be last Tuesday but a strong wind prevented it). He set the world record for skydiving from more than 39 kilometres high, reaching an estimated speed of 1,342 kilometres per hour. He broke the sound barrier.

For do this, he worked during five years and he got three of the four records proposed (be the first person in overcome the speed of sound without mechanic help, the highest parachute jump and up the balloon to the highest point. He couldn’t do the longest free fall of the world).

We are talking about this man and what he did, but we don't know the story behind this sucess, it takes a lot of preparation and it isn't a simply jump.

With the words "born to fly" tattooed in his arm, Felix Baumgartner, an austrian man of 43 years old, has always dreamed in jump with parachutes and fly with helicopters. He made his first jump at the age of  16, and his skills improved after joining the Austrian army.

YOU CAN SEE A VIDEO WITH SOME OF THE BEST JUMPS OF THIS MAN  HERE

We have seen in class the video of this jump, so I am going to put another one imitating this jump with Lego pieces.

Here are the questions:

1-How many people are needed for play the biggest violin of the world?

2-Can you say me a jump made by Felix Baumgartner which more impression made in you? (Mention another one, not the last one that made yesterday).

3-When was released the book "The Guinness World Records"?

4-Can you mention another record that you like?

                                       

SOCIAL NETWORKS

Social networks are influencing in the interaction between teenagers, this causes that less teenagers know how to relate and they hide behind chatting online,this at the same time causes that if they don't know how to relate they aren't going to reproduce so the population is going to decrease.

Social networks is ok if you use it moderately because one good thing that tuenti for example or facebook has, is the events or the groups chatting to go out with friends or go to do sport or a lot of diferents uses that isn't bad for you.

Also in chats online you can use a webcam

 that you can see the person who you are chatting with and he/she can see you it causes a lot of problems because if you are chatting with someone that isn't who he/she sais who is, and you can have a big problem.

1- Do you have any social network?Why no?(if the answer is no)

2- How often do yo usually use it?

3- Do you have webcam and how do you use it?