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La belleza de escuchar, un blog que te acerca a la Historia de la música, ayuda a entender conceptos como ritmo o armonía.

Además, hay una variada guía de audición con piezas del repertorio musical clásico.

Libros de texto CLIL- 2ª parte

La editorial Editex tiene actualmente en su catálogo libros de texto para la ESO: Music I y Music II.

La editorial SM es una de las que más amplio catálogo presentan para Ed. Primaria:

Pearson tiene libros de texto CLIL tanto para Primaria como para Secundaria. En Primaria los proyectos 'Tarantella' y 'Feel the Music' y para la ESO 'Live Music' con dos volúmenes.

MUSIC AND SCIENCE, Bobby McFerrin demonstrates the power of pentatonic scale

You may not know anything about music theory or music scales, but you can sing a pentatonic scale. Bobby McFerrin shows it to you:

World Science Festival - Notes and neurons

MUSICAL MYSTERIES - MUSIC GAMES

MUSIC MYSTERIES

This webpage is developed by the BBC although it has no been updated recently. It has simple games in which students can relate a certain piece of music with a mood or perform rhythm games to solve a mistery.

Other posts related to games:

Games about Scheherezade

Hello Beethoven

How to truly listen - An Evelyn Glennie talk

Do you know Evelyn Glennie?

She is a world renowned Scottish percussionist. Despite being deaf she has managed to listen and feel the music.

Her talk to TED is highly recommended:

You can find it with or withour Spanish subtitles.

If you are interested there is also a movie: TOUCH THE SOUND

Other posts related to videos:

The leitmotif technique

The world of castrati

Learn the musical scale - Primary Education

There are many resources we can use to teach the musical scale:

C Major scale (Escala de Do Mayor)

A scale is a sequence of notes, ordered by pitch. A scale can be ascendig or descending.

The following activity comes from the webpage Bromera, which has a full range of digital activities in English.

About how to teach the name of the notes, you can teach them using the American notation (A, B, C, D, E, F, G) or in Spanish.

 

Using the wall glockenspiel our students can learn how to sing the different notes of the scale and they can play them on the smart board: