Saturday, 16 June 2018

VIDEOS 2


Hi everybody! Well, once again I show you our work together. Good job! 
...and finally, here you can listen to another great artists of this kind of music.
Have a nice Summer.





(NOTA: tal como se acordó con el grupo al cual impartí clase, y a petición suya, una vez llegado el final de Curso los vídeos grabados en clase sobre práctica musical en grupo serían borrados de Youtube. De ahí que ya no figuren aquí).

Tuesday, 24 April 2018

"CELTIC MUSIC" PROJECT



“CELTIC MUSIC” PROJECT

          Project Guidelines

1) The teacher will upload some videos of this kind of music to the blog, in order to ask a series of questions about it. The artists are Loreena McKennitt, Gwendal and Pamela Wyn Shannon.

2) The lyrics of the song All Souls Night by Loreena McKennitt will be uploaded, and the students will translate it (after working on it with the teacher in Music classes).

3) Together, we will play the song O Son do Ar by Luar na Lubre. Instruments: recorder and acoustic guitar. Issues related to digitations, rhythm, tempo, expression, and so on will be under evaluation.


Deadline: around 10th June.


A- Listen to this video and translate the lyrics.


B- Who is Loreena McKennitt? (2 or 3 lines are enough).


          Resultado de imagen de loreena mckennitt youtube

C- Is it just “Celtic” Music or there are another music influences? Which ones?


D- Who is Pamela Wyn Shannon? (2 or 3 lines are enough).

              Resultado de imagen de pamela wyn shannon

E- Where does she come from?

F- In your own words, try to express the feeling you get listening to this music (2 or 3 lines are enough).



G- Do some research about the poem The Unquiet Grave which this song is based on, and answer these questions: what is the main topic of the song? Do you like the story? Why or why not?

H- Where do they (Gwendal) come from?



I- Open your mind and let your imagination fly free!! : what does this music (Gwendal) transmit to you? (3 or 4 lines are enough).

F- This is the song we are playing together (O Son do Ar).





Wednesday, 28 March 2018

Self-assessment (second term)




(SECOND TERM)


1- What can I do that I couldn't do before?

2- What do I like most?

3- What do I do well?

4- What am I confused about?

5- What do I need help with?

6- What do I do in English and/or Music outside the class?

7- What do I need to improve?

8- What did I learn about culture?

Wednesday, 14 February 2018


What do you feel listening to this music? In your own words, try to express that feeling.




What do you feel listening to this music? In your own words, try to express that feeling.




VIDEOS


Hi guys!! ...do you remember? Well, these are the outcomes:


(NOTA: tal como se acordó con el grupo al cual impartí clase, y a petición suya, una vez llegado el final de Curso los vídeos grabados en clase sobre práctica musical en grupo serían borrados de Youtube. De ahí que ya no figuren aquí).





Friday, 26 January 2018

PROJECT GUIDELINES (SHAKESPEARE).



1- Do some research on the "pavan" (3 or 4 lines are enough).
2- In your own words, try to express the feeling you get listening to this music.
3- The teacher and the class will play two pavans together. Instruments: the recorder and the harpsichord.
4- The teacher will upload some activities related to Shakespeare and the music of this historical period (as well as the decades preceding and following it). 
5- The two pavans will be under evaluation (digitations, expression, tempo, rhythm and so on). Moreover, both pieces will be recorded.

Deadline: around March 10th.   

Wednesday, 10 January 2018

SHAKESPEARE IS COMING...



Imagen relacionada

What do you know about Shakespeare?
And about the music of this historical period? (I give you one clue: together, we will play two "pavans").

Wednesday, 20 December 2017

SELF-ASSESSMENT (FIRST TERM).

(FIRST TERM)

1- What can I do that I couldn't do before?
2- What do I like most?
3- What do I do well?
4- What am I confused about?
5- What do I need help with?
6- What do I do in English and/or Music outside the class?
7- What do I need to improve?
8- What did I learn about culture?
9- What about Marcos (Music teaching and so on)?

Thursday, 9 November 2017

"MORNING MOOD" BY EDVARD GRIEG


With the recorder we are playing Morning Mood, one of my favourite melodies ever. Watch the next video and remember that all comments you make are really welcome.


Resultado de imagen de GRIEG

https://youtu.be/SS7-Gwz1Zio


MUSIC VOCABULARY


Make a list with the vocabulary I dictated to you (for Christmas Holidays). DO IT IN A NEW LABEL, not into the Music Label, but creating a new label as "Music Vocabulary".

Thursday, 26 October 2017

HALLOWEEN MUSIC.

Would you like to listen to any kind of "Halloween music" (a mix of Surf/Garage/Rockabilly/Gothic music)? The Coffinshakers is the finest group!!! (By the way, they come from Sweden).



Tuesday, 17 October 2017

ACOUSTIC GUITAR



Remember guys!! There are three kinds of guitar: the Spanish one, the electric one and the acoustic one. You can watch the latter in this video, in which the musician plays the main theme of Game of Thrones.

https://youtu.be/33Zzilrdx5k

Can you feel the differences in the sound?
Do you know the main reason for these differences?

                                              Resultado de imagen de acoustic guitar
Resultado de imagen de electric guitar, classical guitar and acoustic guitar together
                                                                    
             Resultado de imagen de electric guitar fender

                                     

FIRST PROJECT




https://youtu.be/46VdoKjW_mA

Scarborough  Fair            

(Intro).

1 Are you going to Scarborough Fair
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Remember me to one who lives there
She once was a true love of mine.

2 Tell her to find me an acre of land
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Between the water and the sea strand
Then she'll be a true love of mine.

(Pasaje intermedio I).

3 Time is eternal and life is forever
Feel the breeze and clouds passing by
Into your soul there’s no trail of sorrow
No more tears, no more regret…, no more regret…,
no more regret.

(Pasaje intermedio II)
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4 Are you going to Scarborough Fair
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Remember me to one who lives there
She once was a true love of mine…, a true love of mine…,
a true love of mine.


PROJECT  GUIDELINES
1)    Work on the vocabulary and the pronunciation in English classes.
2) Watch to “21 Versions of Scarborough Fair” in Youtube. Analyze the remarkable aspects of the song (style, history, use of English, and so on).  
3)  Do some research (but not in depth) on the song, about some of the musicians of the 21 versions, etc.
4) Work on the musical structure and the parallelism with the English structure (matching, length, syllables, accents, and so on). 
5) All members of the class will sing along the song together with the music teacher, who will play the acoustic guitar, step by step.
6) Write down new third and fourth stanzas in order to fit in with the musical structure. Each teacher (English and music) will evaluate their corresponding items.
7) After some weeks of singing the song, practicing around 20 minutes each week, the song will be evaluated with a performance that could be recorded (image and sound). Issues related to both English and music will be under evaluation. 

DEADLINE: around 10th December.





Wish You Were Here


So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from hell
Blue skies from pain
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

Did they get you to trade
Your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl
Year after year
Running over the same old ground
What have we found
The same old fears
Wish you were here.



PROJECT  GUIDELINES
1)    Work on the vocabulary and the pronunciation in English classes.
2)  Watch to the song in Youtube. Analyze the remarkable aspects of the song (style, history, use of English, and so on).  
3) Do some research (but not in depth) on the song, about some of the musicians of the song, about Pink Floyd, etc.
4)  Work on the musical structure and the parallelism with the English structure (matching, length, syllables, accents, and so on). 
5)  All members of the class will sing along the song together with the music teacher, who will play the acoustic guitar, step by step.
6) Write down a new first stanza in order to fit in with the musical structure. Each teacher (English and music) will evaluate their corresponding items.
7) After some weeks of singing the song, practicing around 20 minutes each week, the song will be evaluated with a performance that could be recorded (image and sound). Issues related to both English and music will be under evaluation. 

DEADLINE: around 10th December. (Some items could be evaluated the first weeks of the Second Term, depending on the development of the first project).