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

PROPERTIES OF MUSICAL SOUNDS

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, staff, keys...
DYNAMICS	•                     It produces strong or soft sounds •                     ff,f,mf,p,pp, crescendo, diminuendo
TONE COLOR	•                     It enables us to distinguish different instruments and different voices.

MUSICAL PERIODS TIMELINE