{"id":5888,"date":"2017-05-19T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T12:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.woodlands.edu.uy\/esp\/?p=5888"},"modified":"2017-05-19T12:51:17","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T12:51:17","slug":"a-professional-musician-comes-to-grade-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woodlands.edu.uy\/esp\/a-professional-musician-comes-to-grade-5\/","title":{"rendered":"A\u00a0professional musician comes to Grade 5!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 1060px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-5888-1\" width=\"1060\" height=\"596\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.woodlands.edu.uy\/esp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/video-contrabajo-00258-6.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodlands.edu.uy\/esp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/video-contrabajo-00258-6.mp4\">http:\/\/www.woodlands.edu.uy\/esp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/video-contrabajo-00258-6.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">This morning, Thursday 18th of May, Grade 5 had a very exciting visit from Fernando S\u00e1nchez, one of the eight double bass players of the &#8216;Orquesta Sinf\u00f3nica del Sodre&#8217;.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">We have been working on the topic, &#8216;Why is music important?&#8217; Fernando came to explain to us why music is so important to him and how he has made a career out of playing the double bass.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Below are some of our reflections.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00abBefore the talk, I thought that the double bass could only be used to play classical music, but now I know that it can adapt to play to different music like tango, cumbia, rock and jazz.\u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Mat\u00edas E<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00abWhen Fernando arrived my first impression was, &#8216;what instrument is that?&#8217;, &#8216;what an enormous instrument!&#8217; and &#8216;what does that instrument sound like?\u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Emiliano M<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00abI loved the part when Fernando took out his double bass. The size of the instrument was amazing and the melody was high-pitched but beautiful.\u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Valentina L<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00abI was impressed to know that the bow was made from the tail hair of a horse. I also learnt that it can only be made from the hair of a male horse.\u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Agustina T and Alfonso B<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00abI learnt that double bass can be played with a bow or with your hands. When you play it with your fingers it&#8217;s called pizzicato.\u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Juliana S and Luc\u00eda C.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">We were very impressed at the beauty of the instrument and the sounds it produced. We couldn&#8217;t believe that Fernando&#8217;s double bass was built in 1730 and that it still sounds so powerful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">What an experience!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This morning, Thursday 18th of May, Grade 5 had a very exciting visit from Fernando S\u00e1nchez, one of the eight double bass players of the &#8216;Orquesta Sinf\u00f3nica del Sodre&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-junior-school","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodlands.edu.uy\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodlands.edu.uy\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodlands.edu.uy\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodlands.edu.uy\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodlands.edu.uy\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5888"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodlands.edu.uy\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5902,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodlands.edu.uy\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5888\/revisions\/5902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodlands.edu.uy\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodlands.edu.uy\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodlands.edu.uy\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodlands.edu.uy\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}