2º ESO Bilingual Section. 2021-2022.

 

Nieves Pérez Paredes, cover page

Iván García´s notebook cover

We started our lessons watching a musical film, August Rush.

If you want to watch the film, you can visit this link. 

In class, we worked the types of music, a worksheet about the film and different activities related to this special movie. 

We review the structure of a pop song listening to "Something inside"
We watched a video about The art of Foley

In our next lesson,  we learnt what a leitmotiv is.

Finally, students composed original leitmotivs using Perfect piano, their ukeleles and other apps. 

Link to listen to different leitmotivs 

Noah and Tiago in one of  our outdoor lessons

Thank you for your motivation

Halloween´s musical cliches

"The apprehension engine"

Soundtracks and classical music Halloween´s  cliches. 

Jaime Altozano nos explica algo de la música más terrorífica de la historia. 

We studied CLICHES in music playing a very known melody. Frere Jacques in C minor, using the organ and in a low pitched scale. 

Composing using GROOVEPAD

Electronic Halloween contest 1

Electronic Halloween contest 2

The winners in Electronic Halloween Contest were:

-First prize: Nieves Pérez Paredes: "The zombies arrive" by Nieves Pérez Paredes. 

-Second prize: "Halloween afternoon" by Noah  Lorenzo- 

-Third prize: "Pumpkins night", by Candela Caballer

STUDYING THE ORIGIN OF THE WESTERN MUSIC: 

MIDDLE AGES. 

We started to prepare old paper to take notes and to imitate ancient scores. 

LINK to MIDDLE AGES IN THIS BLOG. 

 

Guido´s story in 2º A

Irene Medda´s score

Video produced by Paola Bermúdez ( 2º C)

Christmas time. 

We learnt to play basic chords: C, G, G7 and F. 

C chord.

Play your ukelele while you can listen to the melody in the next video: 

Silent night: 

Try to accompany White Christmas reading basic chords in this video:

You can rehearse "The first Noël" with the next video. 

"Los peces en el río": 

Dm and A

Or Am and E

Grabación en 2º B- Merry Christmas. We played with our ukeleles two Christmas carols, Silent night and Jingle bells. 

SECOND TRIMESTER

We started the trimester playing and dancing Radetzky March to study the New Years Concert. 

Link to the material of this topic. 

Podcasts produced during January 2022

Podcast number 1: Angel ( 1ºA), Pedro ( 2º A), Pablo ( 1ºB) , Jimena, Carmen ,María  and Paula( 1º D), Valeria, Paola, Esther, Irene ( 1º A). 

Podcast number 2: Nayara, Pablo ( 1º B). Jimena, Carmen, María and Paula ( 1ºD) .

Podcast number 3: Nayara,Pablo ( 1º B), Guillermo, Paula, Yanely, Jacob ( 1ºC) y Paula ( 1ºD). 

Podcast number 4: Pedro, Jero ( 2º A), Irene ( 2º C), Carmen, María and Paula ( 1ºD) and Tiago ( 2º C).

Thank you all students who participated in this project.  

Radetzky March, video about music lesson related to New Year´s concert

Going on Medieval musical  contents

Link to Medieval period

Hildegard von Bingen

Nieves Pérez Paredes´s drawing

Aitana Lozano´s drawing

Carmina Burana 

In taberna, a performance recreating Medieval period ( goliards) 

Carl Orff composed in 20th century an opera inspired in goliards poems. 

Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi

Alfonso X the Wise

Santa María strela do dia

Chords to accompany "Santa María strela do dia". Dm, C and G.

A podcast produced in class. Secular music in Middle Ages

( With Cantiga 119 by Alfonso X the Wise)

A video to enjoy Medieval music

Quen a omagen ( flute, darbuka and ukeleles), performed by students belonging to 2º C ( Laura Barba played the flute and Noah Lorenzo played the darbuka). 

Santa Maria Strela do dia ( 2º B)- Soloiste recorder played by Mª José de Vega. 

Podcast page 9 ( A world of sounds C-Ecir)  

Video with the performance during the meeting with Paloma Díaz-Mas ( the last new RAE academician). 

The conference was really interesting and exciting. It was organised by Nines ( Literature teacher in 2º A).

Angel sang as soloist a part of Santa Maria Strela do dia and immediately after al the group sang a "romance" composed by Marcos and Pedro: 

Soy el hacedor de versos

vean a este juglar actuar

con cantares al momento

diversión les voy a brindar.

Un perro iniciará el baile

y fuego voy a lanzar

luego contaremos un cuento.

La función va a comenzar. 

Y mi nombre es don Rodrigo,

Rodrigo, el mejor juglar

interpretando mis cantigas

voy de ciudad en ciudad. 

Algunos nobles me llaman

para poemas recitar

y tocar zanfoñas y gaitas.

Mi laúd os voy a mostrar. 

We sang and played  "Hallelujah", composed by Leonard Cohen and performed by Rufus Wainright. 

 And finally we watched some videos to finish this topic: 

Video no1: Leonard Cohen during Príncipe de Asturias awards. 

Video no2: 

Tras el concierto de primavera de la orquesta María Deraismes hicimos una evaluación en español. 

Finally, some students belonging to 2º C participated in a performance in Segura Covarsí school with the choir. 

Third trimester: 

We finished the unit related to Renaissance period and started to study Baroque period with different interesting activities: 

Some useful vídeos: 

Clase con Pablo sobre el Renacimiento

Listen to this interesting podcast about music and books. MÚSICA Y ANDANZAS

La música en el Quijote. 

Baroque period: 

Link a este período en este blog 

Baroque hits: 

5: Pachelbel´s canon

Bajo continuo, bajo ostinato

Do you know that one of the most beautiful songs composed by Maroon 5 has the first harmonic ostinato: 

4. Te Deum, by Charpentier

 

3: Tocatta and fugue in D minor by Bach

2. Zadok the priest by Haendel

This piece was the original composition arranged by Tony Britten to compose Uefa Champions League anthem: 

1. The spring, belonging to The four seasons by Antonio Vivaldi. 

We filled in class a worksheet about The Four seasons: 

What´s the opera? 

The first opera was Orfeo, by Claudio Monteverdi

We watched a video about one of the most famous castrati, Farinelli, singers who could sing as a woman with the lungs of a man, so they were chant´s  virtuosi. 

We worked about Ombra mai fu, taking photos about trees to celebrate World Enviroment´s day. 

Ombra mai fu ( A beautiful aria belonging to "Serse", by Haendel)

Our videos: 

A  vídeo with photos from 2º B and C students. 

Finally we read about different important Baroque musicians in our music book and specially, Bach. 

Studying Bach: 

Meeting Bach ( a dialogue between Leonor and Bach)

María Chaves and Ángel Corchero performed this script  in our Recording Studio thanks to Alfonso Rodríguez. Link in soundcloud

( This dialogue was written by Nieves Tejado , a music teacher in a high school in Cáceres). Congratulations, my students, your performance was great!. 

Leonor´s baton

Who is Bach? Sheila nos lo cuenta en su Badinerie de la Suite número 2. 

No os perdáis el vídeo de Jaime Altozano sobre el órgano, el rey de los instrumentos en el Barroco y en la historia de la música. 

Páginas y podcast para continuar aprendiendo Historia de la Música de una manera amena: 

Operando, con Ramón Gener

Música antigua, de Sergio Pagán

Música a la carta, con Amaya Prieto

This is opera

Some photos to say Thank you and Goodbye to a special year: 

Evaluación del alumnado de la asignatura :
Se pasó un test para hacer una autoevaluación y comentarios de la marcha de la asignatura.

Una gran parte del alumnado coincide en que les ha encantado tocar el ukelele, cantar,  las clases de danza, percusión corporal y las actividades en grupo que se han realizado. 

Aún así se ha echado de menos más actividades en grupo, trabajar mejor y con más antelación los vídeos que se han puesto en clase para sacarles más jugo. 

En los resultados académicos se puede apreciar que se premió la buena participación en eventos musicales y la realización de trabajos voluntarios propuestos en classroom, es decir, un esfuerzo extra así como el estudio regular hecho con atención e interés. 

Mi propuesta de mejora para el curso próximo es no abandonar las tareas diarias ( como sucedió este curso) sino trabajar desde el principio centrada en la clase pero sin dejar de profundizar cada 15 días en algún tema que sea oportuno fijar para ir creando hábito de trabajo que redunde en mejorar la calificación en la asignatura. 

Os deseo un magnífico verano. 

Mª José de Vega Elías.