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1 BLOCK HOMEWORK UNIT 4 SCHOOL YEAR Student: SCORE Grade/year: Tenth Basic Course: Area/Subject Music Date: Teacher: Mr. Mauricio Figueroa 10 Instructions: This part must be resolve it AT HOME and it s part of INSUMO 2 DUE DATE: Week August (in music class) 1. Read the biographies of the Ecuadorian Composers and then answer the questions (6 points) Gerardo Guevara Gerardo Guevara (born 23 September 1930) is one of the key composers in Ecuador. His work combines native music with contemporary techniques. Born in Quito, Gerardo Guevara showed music ability at an early age. Because his father worked as a caretaker at the Conservatorio Nacional, Guevara used to eavesdrop on the music dictations that were being given to older children and sometimes ventured to shout the answer before running away. When he was fifteen he started studying composition with Luis H. Salgado. In 1952, while playing the piano in an orchestra in Guayaquil, he studied composition and the analysis of Bartok's music with the Hungarian musician Jorge Raycki. From 1959 onwards and thanks to a Unesco grant, Guevara studied composition with Nadia Boulanger at the École Normale de Musique de Paris where he graduated as a conductor. While in Paris, he also studied musicology at the University of La Sorbonne. After

2 twelve years in France, he went back to Ecuador where in 1972 he formed the choir of the Central University of Quito. A year later, he created the Sayce (Society for the protection of musicians). He acted as a conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra from and director of the Conservatorio Nacional ( ) where he taught composition and the history of Ecuadorian Music. Compositions Despedida, pasillo, 1957 Apanny Shungo for piano, 1958 Atahualpa for choir, 1965 Ecuador, orchestral suite, 1972 El espantapájaros Answer the questions (3 points) 1. When and where he was born? 2. What was his father occupation? 3. What Guevara used to do when he was at Conservatorio as a child? 4. What happened when he was fifteen years old? 5. With who did he study composition? 6. What kind of music he used to analyze while he was studying composition? 7. What happened in 1959? _ 8. Where did he study musicology? _ 9. In what year he returned back to Ecuador and what did he create? _ 10. Write 2 of his compositions _

3 Luis Humberto Salgado Luis Humberto Salgado (1903 Cayambe Quito) was an Ecuadorian composer. He was regarded as one of the most influential and prolific composers of his country. He was taught by his father, the composer Francisco Salgado, a former student of the Italian composer Domenico Brescia.During the 1920s, Salgado made a living as a pianist for silent films in Quito. He later he worked as a critic, teacher, and choir and orchestra conductor. He also acted as director of the Conservatorio Nacional de Música. In his essay Música vernácula ecuatoriana (Microestudio), published in 1952 in Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, he expresses his thoughts about the creation of a national form. For example, he replaced the classical symphonic pattern (Allegro - Larghetto - Allegretto Scherzo - Allegro Vivace) with a sequence of Ecuadorian folk dances: Ecuadorian Symphony I Sanjuanito II Yaraví III Danzante IV Albazo, Aire típico or Alza Luis Humberto Salgado was the leading figure of his generation. His symphonic suite Atahualpa (1933), his Suite coreográfica (1946), the ballets El amaño (1947), and El Dios Tumbal (1952) and other works show strong nationalistic feeling. Salgado also wrote two operas, Cumandá (1940, rev. 1954); Eunice (1956-7) that were never produced. Salgado was not an exclusively nationalist composer, as the varied style of his eight symphonies shows. In his later years, he even relied on atonality and tried his hand at 12-note composition. Béhague, Gerard "Ecuador. Art Music" As early as 1944, he wrote Sanjuanito Futurista for piano, using the rhythm of a traditional Ecuadorian dance within the dodecaphonic writing style. He was in his early forties when he started experimenting with new techniques but was not acknowledged as a modernist until later in his life.

4 Despite the efforts of the Ecuadorian Symphony Orchestra and the director Álvaro Manzano, a good part of his music is to be performed and almost the entire recording Answer the questions (3 points) 1. Where and when he was born? 2. Who was his father? Give name and formation 3. What were his occupations about 1920? 4. What was the name of his essay and when and where was published? 5. What were his thoughts written in his essay? 6. Explain how he replace the classical symphonic pattern 7. How many symphonies did he compose? 8. What did he compose at 1944 and with what writing style? _ 9. What happened with Salgado s music? Last paragraph _ 10. Write 2 of his compositions _

5 Make an investigation on internet (4 points) RESOLVE IT AT HOME Choose 1 ecuadorian artist from the list: a. Carlos Rubira Infante b. Julio Jaramillo c. Medardo Ángel Silva d. Enrique Espin Yepez Now answer the questions about the artist you chose before In addition, you have to paste picture PASTE PICTURE : Write 5 interesting facts about HIS LIFE Write 5 interesting facts about his ARTISTIC CAREER Write 5 of his compositions

6 Activity group UNIT 4 Student: SCORE Grade/year: Tenth Basic Course: Area/Subject Music Date: Teacher: Mr. Mauricio Figueroa 10 Instructions: This part must be resolve it IN CLASS and IN GROUPS. This is part of INSUMO 3 DUE DATE: Week August (in music class) 1. In groups of 2 elaborate a Venn Diagram comparing and contrasting the 2 composers (6 points)

7 2. In groups of 2 complete the information about artist s compositions by listening the song first (4 points) Designed by Mr. Mauricio Figueroa Developed by Student s Name