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Local Music Exchange

Summary

Students are given the opportunity to listen and develop ideas about music from other countries as well as their own. Students need to listen for detail in the lyrics, negotiate meaning and share their opinions. Bulgaria is a country with a very rich cultural treasury. The Bulgarian National Folklore is admired worldwide. The phenomenal Bulgarian folk singers and ensembles made the country popular all over the world. The national folk costumes are also very interesting and unique. The folk costumes worn on different holidays are extremely varied.

Age range
16 - 19
Language
English
Owner
Emilia Piposnova
Project stage
In progress
Last update
16 years ago
Rating
5 stars
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Folklore instruments

• Tarambouka
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• Tapan
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• Dvoyanka

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• Duduk (diudiuk)

It's different from the little kaval and the tsafara with its construction and way of reproducing the sound.
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• Svirka (tsarafa, svorche, a little kaval)
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•Gaida

The gaida is an instrument which is used from all European nations.
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• Kaval

The kaval is one of the most diffused musical folk instruments used very much from the Bulgarians long time ago still now.
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• tamboura (dranakia, dzunga, bailama)
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• gadoulka (kopanka, ghiola, kasnak)

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Choose a genre and write a background

Students from each school should be paired up with a partner with similar music interests. Then they must research and write a concise background of that local music scene.

Choose a song to exchange

Students choose one song from a local artist in their native tongue in relation to the specific genre. Students then send the songs to the students in the other country.

Listen & imagine

ENGLISH students read the background of their chosen genre and listen to the song. Then they imagine what it may be about. FOREIGN language students read the background of their chosen genre and listen to the song. Then they write the lyrics down from just listening to the song.

Exchange of the truth

ENGLISH students send the real lyrics to the foreign students so that they can check what they have written with the actual text. FOREIGN language students send the translation to the English students so that they can compare their ideas to the actual text.

Share opinion

Students share their opinions about the songs they heard with the students who sent it to them.

Conclusion

Students share the songs and lyrics with the other students in their class.

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