Transcript Drawing and Painting Fun

Drawing and
Painting Fun
- Carnival -
CARNIVAL is a public
celebration that takes place
inmediately before the
Christian Lent.
It can be from January to
March, it depends on each
year.
This celebration has got some elements:
costumes,
parades
and street parties.
There are lots of similar parties in the world.
The largest carnival celebration in the world
is in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).
But there are more internationally famous
carnivals:
Santa Cruz de
Tenerife (Spain),
Cadiz (Spain),
Venice (Italy),
Barranquilla (Colombia)…
The longer is in Montevideo (Uruguay):
it lasts the entire month of February !
There are many types of carnivals, but now we are
going to know more about “The Carnival of the
Animals” (Le Carnaval des animaux).
Following the music of Camille Saint-Saëns we can
listen to the lions, chickens, turtles, kangaroos,
donkeys and some more animals in a triumphal march.
It´s a fantasy made up of 14 small movements.
The work is curious because it has got an unusual
instrumentation: two pianos, two violins, a viola,
a cello, a double bass, a flute, a clarinet, an
accordion and a xylophone.
With these instruments the composer describes
all the animals.
PARTS OF THE WORK:
1. Introduction and Royal March of the
lion.
2. Chickens and roosters.
3. Wild donkeys (fast animals).
4. Turtles.
5. The elephant.
6. Kangaroos.
7. Aquarius.
8. Characters with long ears.
9. The cuckoo in the dark of theforest.
10. Aviary.
11. Pianists.
12. Fossils.
13. The swan.
14. Final.
While we listen to the work, you will colour a sheet.
Link got in EDUCANCONTIC (“Imaginación musical”, by Mª Jesús Camino).