Historia del Rock y de la música del S. XX

La Fundación Ibercaja ha preparado un interesante material sobre la Historia de la música del S. XX y del Rock, con actividades, audiciones y otras propuestas.

 Si os interesa, podéis descargarlo en el siguiente enlace:  

Historia de la música del Rock y del S. XX

Some musical vocabulary for kids

An infography which shows some important music vocabulary in English:

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Desde la página de line.do podemos hacer líneas del tiempo de una forma fácil e intuitiva. Para comenzar solo debemos registrarnos, rellenando correo electrónico, nombre de usuario y contraseña:

Una vez registrados crear nuestra línea del tiempo es muy fácil, se elige categoría (educación, música...). Luego funciona de una forma similar al powerpoint. A la izquierda vamos añadiento hitos y por cada uno podemos poner fotos, vídeos o enlaces.

Desde la sección de Mi perfil podrás acceder a todas tus líneas del tiempo, ya estén en borrador o publicadas.

Music in Ancient Greece

The music of ancient Greece was almost universally present in society, from marriages and funerals to religious ceremonies, theatre, folk music and the reciting of epic poetry. 

Musical instruments in Ancient Greece

Ancient Greek musicians developed their own system of musical notation. Several complete songs exist in ancient Greek musical notation.

The Seikilos Epitaph is the oldest surviving example of a complete musical composition, including musical notation, from anywhere in the world.

Music was an important part in Education
 
Some Greek instruments are: the kithara, the aulos, syrinx and the lyre.

QUALITIES OF SOUND

DURATION	•                     It produces short and long sounds and fast and slow sounds. •                     Crotchet, minim, adagio, allegro...
PITCH	•                     It is the relative highness or lowness that we hear in a sound •                     It produces high and low sounds •                     Scale, stave, keys...
DYNAMICS	•                     It produces strong or soft sounds •                     ff,f,mf,p,pp, crescendo, diminuendo
TONE COLOR or TIMBRE	•                     It enables us to distinguish different instruments and different voices.

Games about Scheherezade

A GAME ABOUT SHEHEREZADE

Scheherezade is a musical work composed by the Russian composer Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)

Rimsky-Korsakov

You can listen to the composition, learn about the composer, read the plot and play the game in the following link:

HALLOWEEN SONGS WITH LYRICS

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Key words

(Always tricky) prepositions

This may help:

The (creepy) Magic Flute by Mozart

What do you think about this performance? Do you like it?

You can encourage your students to find adjectives to describe it:

The Magic flute with English lyrics and subtitles

Polyrhythm exercises

Use your left and right hands to play these rhythms. You must play both lines at the same time. 

Keep the rhythm by tapping on the table or by clapping on your knees:

PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS

The little Mermaid - 'Under the sea' choreography

The original song:

You can also learn the song and practise with the lyrics:

 

 

The choreography:

Feliz día de la música!

Some vocabulary

Have you already watched...?

SWING OF CHANGE

PARTS OF THE GUITAR

THE MAGIC FLUTE WITH SUBTITLES

La ópera completa de 'La flauta mágica' con subtitulos en español e inglés:

Enlace a Youtube

PERIODOS DE LA HISTORIA DE LA MÚSICA

Education Scotland

Web dedicada a los distintos estilos de la historia de la música. Ofrece información fácil, visual y detallada sobre los distintos periodos de la música culta, así como audiciones que acompañan la explicación. 

APUNTES DE PIANO

Unos sencillos apuntes para introducir el piano a nuestros alumnos:

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ORFF INSTRUMENTS

PARTS OF A QUAVER

The parts of a quaver are: the FLAG, the STEM and the NOTE HEAD:

We can also find STEMS in nature:

THE DIATONIC SCALE

• A scale is a set of notes ordered by pitch. It can be ascending or descending
• The diatonic scale is made of seven notes (high 'do' is repeated)

• It has five tones (or whole steps) and two semitones (or half steps)

• The semitones in the diatonic scale are between the notes mi-fa and si-do

• If you look at the keys of a piano you can see the distance of tone and semitone easily. There is no black key between the semitones.

INTERVALS

•  In music, an interval is the difference between two notes.

• An interval can be of: 

second (2nd), third (3rd), fourth (4th), fifth (5th), sixth (6th), seveth (7th), octave (8th) and so on.

• Intervals can be ASCENDING or DESCENDING:

•  An interval can also be HARMONIC or MELODIC.

Music&maths

Música y matemáticas ¿tienen algo que ver? Más de lo que crees:

JUEGOS PARA INICIARSE EN EL PIANO

He encontrado estos interesantes juegos muy útiles para iniciarse en el teclado, pertenecen a la web "Aprendo Música":

1. Atrapa las notas
2. Cazanotas

 

PIANOS VIRTUALES:

1. Virtual piano
2.  Virtual keyboard

Music signs - FLATS and SHARPS

Ear training

Si queréis practicar la educación auditiva en el aula una interesante manera de hacerlo es a través de los juegos. 

La página web de la editorial Bromera nos presenta una serie de juegos muy interesantes y en inglés, para mejorar el oído de nuestros alumnos:

Young person's guide to orchestra

Discover the different families of instruments with the "Young person's guide to orchestra" composed by Benjamin Britten.

You can notice the different sections as they use different colors for each one:

Our voice, how it works and types of voices

How the voice works:

 

The sound of human voice is produced when air vibrates. The vocal cords in the voice box begin to vibrate when the singer sends air up out of his/her lungs using the muscles of the diaphragm.

 

Types of voices

Female	Range of Voice	Male
Soprano	High	Tenor
Mezzo soprano	Medium	Baritone
Contralto	Low	Bass