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MUSIC HOMEWORK PPERFORMING ARTS AROUND THE WORLD
MUSICAL CYCLES - HOMEWORK PROJECT
NAME________________________
CLASS________________
You have a musical mission to complete: Swindon Town Football Club have won the FA Cup and you have been asked to put on a
carnival show of epic proportions in Swindon town centre to celebrate ……
You plan to showcase music from around the world starting with the fabulous Swindon Academy Samba Band.
The Samba band will be perfect to start the celebrations as Samba music is exciting carnival music for the street. It originally comes
from South America, especially Brazil, and it’s full of energy! It is one of the most popular forms of music in Brazil and is widely
viewed as Brazil's national musical style. Some of the winning football stars are going to walk in front of the Samba band as they
make their procession from Beech Avenue and they will be holding the Brazilian flag.
The 1st part of this musical mission is to get the Brazilian flag made. You need to give the design to the team
who are going to make it so you need to make sure all information is correct.
On the next page is an outline of the Brazilian flag. Research the colours and ensure you colour it in correctly.
The team making the flag want to know the meaning of the words on the flag. Research on the Internet and
write your answer here:- ____________________________________________________________
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THE BRAZILIAN FLAG
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For the 2nd part in the musical mission you can choose TASK A (level 3-4 literacy),
TASK B (levels 4-5 literacy) or TASK C (level 5+ literacy)
TASK A
The Samba Band members are
struggling to remember their rhythms
for the performance. Write them some
lyrics which will help keep them in time.
TASK B
The team making the Brazilian flag are very interested to learn more about Samba
music.
Write them an email to include information about the origins of samba.
TASK C
Swindon Advertiser wants to do an article about your musical mission and you have been invited to attend a question & answer session at the
newspaper’s headquarters prior to the carnival at the weekend. The journalist has expressed a particular interest in the Samba Band and he
wants to find out all about the culture of Samba music.
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TASK A: Write lyrics to the following 4 rhythms:
Rhythm 1
Rhythm 2
Rhythm 3
Rhythm 4
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TASK B: Write an email to include information about the origins of samba. Where are its roots? When did it first appear?
Where? What type of people play samba music? How did the style develop? You can include any more
information you find out.
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Useful websites:
http://www.umich.edu/~ac213/student_projects05/ml/Samba.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samba
http://www.worldsamba.org/home/index.php?&MMN_position=1:1
http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/worldmusic/view/page.basic/genre/
content.genre/samba_782
http://www.travel-amazing-southamerica.com/samba.html
http://www.fruityclave.com/instruments
http://www.tdsounds.co.uk/index.php?cName=drums-and-instruments
http://www.knockonwood.co.uk/samba.asp/CatID/1
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TASK C: Answer the following questions in full sentences:
What are samba schools?
Where is samba music performed?
What are the carnivals in Rio de Janeiro like?
How is music and dance combined? (You might need to search for ‘Brazilian Carnivals’ to find this information).
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You often find people play samba instruments when they go to watch the Brazilian football team. Why?
Do you like Samba music? Justify your answer with musical reasons.
How is early samba different to samba today?
The 3rd part of this musical mission is to ensure that your Samba Band musicians are well presented for the occasion.
In the drawing template on the next page, design your own carnival mask for the performers to wear.
You can be as extravagant as you like. Look at lots of pictures of the masks worn at the carnivals in Rio de Janeiro and see
if you can create something that would be suitable for this Swindon Town Football Club winning occasion.
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In this space here, explain your design and
the inspiration behind it to the members of
Swindon Academy Samba Band.
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Now for the 4th part of your musical mission:
You have booked a group of musicians to perform the Djole rhythm at the celebration carnival.
The local radio station have asked you to be a guest speaker during their early morning
breakfast show in order to promote this African music and the forthcoming carnival. In
preparation, you will need to research one of the following West African musicians and answer
the questions below:
• Oumou Sangaré
• Fela Kuti
• Youssou N’Dour
Name of chosen musician: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Which West African country is he/she from?
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If he/she plays an instrument, which instrument does he/she play? Or if he/she sings, describe his/her voice.
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Were you able to listen to any of his/her pieces of music? If so, what was it called?
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What subjects does your chosen musician write about?
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What style of music does he or she perform?
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Give TWO other interesting facts you found out about the musician and his/her music.
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MAJOR ALERT for your 5th musical mission!
Terrible news…….your West African performance group are no longer able to perform at the carnival. You have to teach the Samba band to
play the African rhythms for the Djole rhythm?
Plan ahead by making a list below of the drums needed to play the Djole rhythm and describe and/or draw pictures to show how each drum
should be played.
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Oh dear! Things really aren’t going your way: The Egyptian Music Ensemble have sent you some information to display in the Carnival
brochure but unfortunately the envelope got wet in the post and some of the words are now smudged and not clear enough to read.
Your 6th musical mission: Can you complete the missing words so that the information can be included in the carnival brochure?
Choose from the list of words below:-
Religious
Brass
Woodwind
Rhythm
Percussion
Stringed
Reeds
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EGYPTIAN MUSIC
There wasn't any way of recording music or writing down notes in ancient Egypt, so we don't know what Egyptian music sounded like. From pictures,
we do know what kind of instruments the Egyptians had. As you can see in this picture, there were ___________instruments like guitars and harps.
There were also _________instruments like recorders or clarinets, with ________for the mouthpiece like clarinets today, and there were
_______instruments like trumpets too. There were lots of __________instruments like drums and rattles. As the picture shows, a lot of Egyptian
musicians were women (though not all of them). Music was a good opportunity for women to work at a skilled job. However some musicians were
probably also slaves.
Musicians often performed at _________ festivals. They also played at private parties. Workers in factories and fields often sang and clapped as they
worked to help keep a_________.
YOU HAVE COMPLETED YOUR MUSICAL MISSIONS…LET THE CELEBRATIONS COMMENCE!
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