NURSERY RHYMES, SINGING IN THE CLASSROOM

Dar clase de música en inglés en infantil y en el primer ciclo de primaria muchas veces es un problema. No siempre es fácil adecuar el nivel de inglés a niños tan pequeños y mantener su atención cuando el idioma empleado no es su primera lengua no es sencillo.

Un recurso muy útil y divertido es el uso de nursery rhymes o canciones infantiles, siempre que se pueda mejor con letra (lyrics). Muchas veces Youtube nos da la oportunidad de activar los subtitulos.

Aquì os dejo algunos de los mejores videos que se pueden encontrar en Youtube:

• Most popular nursery rhymes

•  The animals on the farm

• 1,2,3,4,5 once I caught a fish alive 

TIME SIGNATURES

An interesting video about Time signatures:

Thanks to: Music Theory Guy Youtube channel

HELLO BEETHOVEN!

Learn new facts about Beethoven's life visiting this interactive website:

HALLO BEETHOVEN

Students can have a look inside Beethoven's room and learn more about his life and habits. If you have smartboard in your classroom, this is a perfect resource to add some fun

Página web interactiva dedicada al compositor Beethoven en la que los alumnos podrás navegar de forma interactiva y así descubrir nuevas facetas del músico

BODY PERCUSSION

The web 'Body percussion classroom" presents lots of exercises and ideas to introduce body percussion in our classes:

La percusión corporal es una buena herramienta para trabajar en el aula de música desde las edades más tempranas, siempre adaptando la dificultad de forma adecuada.

INSTRUMENTS AROUND THE WORLD

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AROUND THE WORLD

An interenting web about world instruments.  Lots of instruments organised by countries, in alfabetical order or depending on the way they are played (string, wind or percussion):

Wind instruments

String instruments

RENAISSANCE INSTRUMENTS

• Lute: the neck of the Renaissance lute was bent back; the strings were tuned in pairs and the fingerboard had frets.

• Viols: Flat back and six strings. Fretted fingerboard. Viols were held upright in front of the player rather than tucked under the chin

• Crumhorn: double-reed instrument

• Sackbut: It's an early kind of trombone.

• Trumpet: Without the valve system we know today (it was invented in the 19th century). The different notes were obtained by varying the lip pressure

• Percussion instruments: tabor, kettle drums, side drum, triangle and cymbals

The leitmotif technique

An interesting video to show the use of the leitmotif technique in 'The lord of the rings'  soundtrack:

MEDIEVAL INSTRUMENTS

• Shawmn: Double-reed instrument. It's the ancestor of the oboe
• Organ: There were the church organ and also a portative organ.
• Harp: Smaller than today's harp
• Psaltery: The strings were plucked with quills.
• Rebec: A bowed instrument with three strings
• Pipe and tabor: A pipe and a drum that was played only by one person

MUSIC GLOSSARY

A general music glossary with the basic terms we're going to use this year.

You can download it by clicking in the link:

MUSIC GLOSSARY

Fantasy2000 activities

La película de Disney 'Fantasía 2000' es un buen recurso para utilizar en clase, desde educación primaria hasta secundaria.

A continuación os dejo unas actividades pensadas para hacer durante el visionado. En este caso serían más adecuadas para secundaria:

Fantasy2000 follow along questions