Notes of Harmony

Exploring and sharing our cultural identities by interpreting our

musical heritages

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Children shared the musical heritages ofeach participating country through various

activities.

DRAWING SINGING DANCING

INSTRUMENTAL PLAYING WRITINGDRAMA

Along with these activities they learned a lot about the four countries and the mentality of

these nations.

They found out characteristics

- about the geographical situation of the participating countries

- about the history of the four countries

- about the different customs and traditions in each country

- about the way of life in the partner countries

- about the life, the works and the feelings of some special people

These experiences have been extremely valuable to support the creation of

tolerance and understanding towards the cultural differences.

The following examples can give an impression of the activities at

FLORENBERGSCHULEKÜNZELLGERMANY

DRAWING

A memorial for J.S. Bach

„Venus – The Bringer of Peace“A collage to G. Holst‘s music„The Planets“

A portrait of the Turkish composer Aşik Veysel

„Thousend – and – one – Night“2nd Class

„Mosque in Sunrise“4th Class

WRITING POEMS

In Germany a well known poetic form for children in primary school is called “Elfchen”. The poem has got eleven words and the lines don’t have rhymes.

The first word is (for example) a feeling, a colour or a quality.

The second line contents two words which describe this feeling (colour, quality).

The third line contents three words and the forth four, which tell more details to the word in the first line.

The fifth line has got only one final word.

4th-class-pupils have written „Elfchen“ toChopin‘s Etude op.10, No.3

SADCOMPLETELY DEPRESSEDA MAN DIED I AM DEEPLY MOVEDREGRETTABLE

SADI LEFT WANT TO RETURNI AM VERY HOMESICKREUNION

RELAXINGMOVING MUSICNOT VERY LOUDI CALM MYSELF DOWNSILENT

LONGINGSO FARI AM SADI‘M FOND OF YOUBYE

THEATRE

“Extracts from theLife of Johann Sebastian

Bach”by

Beate Mierswa(Florenbergschule)

The Life of Aşik Veysel

According to an idea from our Turkish colleague Selen.

DANCING

J.S. BachRondo

Oriental Dancing

Instrumental Playing

English folksongs played with recorders

Polish Christmas songs playedwith violoncello and piano

Turkish songs played with a self-made Saz

Informationabout the Composersin the Entrance Hall

of our School

Aşik Veysel

ChildhoodFrédéric Chopin was born in 1810 in

Zelazowa Wola (about 50km westwards from Warsaw, the capital of

Poland). Nicolas Chopin, his father, came from France, his mother, Justyna Krzyzanowska, was Polish. Half a year

after the birth of Frédéric the family moved to Warsaw. The members of the family often played musical instruments together. Frédéric’s father played the violin and the flute, his mother played

the piano.

Gustav Holst

(according to an idea of our English colleague Kathryn Turner) and Frédéric Chopin

Life and Works of the four Composers

Frédéric Chopin Gustav Holst Aşik Veysel Johann Sebastian Bach

All the details our pupils learned about these composers have been summarized in a game. The children found the questions and answers by themselves.