Welcome to 2021. Happy New Year, my students!
JANUARY:
ACTIVITY NUMBER ONE: What´s music for us? VOLUNTEER WORK
New Year´s concert 2021:
a- Do you agree with Ricardo Mutti´s opinion? Write the sentence you agree most.
b- Listen and write the name of the two classical encores in Vienna New Year´s concert and their composers.
Watch the New Year´s concert in 1st of January of 2021 and answer these questions about the instruments that are playing.
c- How many double basses are playing in this concert? Cellos? Harps?
d-Trombones? Tubas?
e- How many timpani or kettle drums can you see?
f- What´s the exactly name of the orchestra you are listening to?
g- Name two other conductors who conducted this concert last years.
Do you want to know anymore about Ricardo Mutti?
He was the conductor in this ocassion in New Year´s Concert in Vienna.
h- Write one or two sentences from next speech you agree most.
What does it mean to be a conductor?
i- Watch this mext video and write in your journal the most significant contents and feelings after watching it:
2- ACTIVITY NUMBER TWO: Music and Interiority. Volunteer work.
We are doing this week a daily mindfulness exercise. ( only ten minutes)
How are we going to do it?We ´ll listen to one or two different pieces of music every day, you know, focusing on our breathing and closed eyes. Try to decide the best moment to do it during the day ( perhaps in the morning just after getting up or perhaps just inmediately before starting your lessons or before going to sleep).
My suggestions:
Monday:
Prelude C Major BWV 846 by J.S. Bach , played by Lang Lang
Tuesday:
Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 G Major ( performed by Yo Yo Ma)/
El cant des ocels, a folk song played by Pau Casals
Wednesday:
Adagio del Concerto Grosso número 6 de Arcangello Corelli.
Air on the G String (Suite No. 3, BWV 1068) J. S. Bach, original instrumentsThursday: ´
Miserere by Allegri ( a fragment)
Sanctus, an Prizeman arrangement of Canon by Pachelbel, performed by the famous choir Libera
Friday:
Romanza para guitarra y orquesta de Salvador Bacarisse
Saturday:
Gabriel´s oboe, (a piece of The Mission) by Ennio Morricone
Schindler´s list theme, by John Williams
Sunday:
Now we are free ( Gladiator)-Hans Zimmer -
SECOND WEEK
Monday:
Serenade for strings ( Tchaikovsky)
Tuesday:
Samuel Barber Adagio for strings, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel
Wednesday:
Adagio by Tomasso Albinoni ( Hauser and Zagreb Philarmonic orchestra)
Mariam Matrem, Llibre Vermell ( Anonymous)
Thursday:
Nocturne C sharp minor by Frederic Chopin
Friday
Caresse sur l´ocean, by Bruno Coulais
Vois sur ton chemin, by Bruno Coulais
Saturday:
Nocturno op.9 no.2 by Frederic Chopin
Sunday:
Ombra mai fu by Haendel ( from Rinaldo opera).
ETC
At the end , you have to answer some questions:
(Please, try to write the exercise in your notebook).
A- Can you order your favourite five pieces according to your preferences ?
B-Analise some aspects about your favourite one:
a- Name of the piece of music and composer:
b- Performer
c-A drawing during listening or after listening to the piece of music.
d- Music´s Character: ( adjectives)
e-Instruments:
f- Tempo: Adagio? Andante? Allegro?
g- Religious or secular music?
h- Vocal, instrumental or both?
i- Main characteristic of the video?
C- Write about the benefits you got if you enjoyed the activity.
3- ACTIVITY NUMBER THREE: Our first podcast. Volunteer work.
Audacity.
We ´ll learn to use Audacity in order to produce a podcast or an audio recording for a video.
4- ACTIVITY NUMBER FOUR; Musical language. Actividad obligatoria para 2º C.
MUSICAL NOTES AND HOW TO READ MUSIC.
Trabajaremos la ficha de "Repaso de teoría musical con vídeos tutoriales".
You have to watch all the videos we didn´t watch before and COMPLETE their corresponding worksheets.
1 - We´ll start with the first video, "El endecagrama primigenio" by Jaime Altozano, and review the whole worksheet ( the rest of the videos we didn´t watch in class).
and the rest of the videos.
5- ACTIVITY NUMBER FIVE: The origin of musical notes. Actividad obligatoria.
MIDDLE AGES:
We are going to write a special medieval piece of music: The hymn dedicated to Saint Johannes "Ut queant laxis".
Montaje realizado por los alumnos durante este curso :
In order to present a nice score, you can watch a video to change the appearance of your paper.
Watch the video your teacher sent you and then, copy the score drawing lines of the teatragram in red, square notes in black and a creative decoration for the first syllable: U t. You know, in ancient scores, the first letter usually had a special look.
Watch unless two videos to complete the information about the origin of musical notes.
Comment one or two significant aspects of the videos you watched in your journal.
Guía de evaluación:
Uso de papel envejecido: 4 puntos ( color adecuado, folio sin cuadritos o líneas, etc). Take a photograph while you´re making your work and send it to your teacher.
Quality score: 4 puntos ( tetragrama con líneas en rojo, notas correctas en negro, letra clara y primera sílaba adornada). Take a photograph and send it to your teacher.
Comentario breve de cada uno de los vídeos ( si es en español, comentario en español): 1 punto.
Comentario de 3 vídeos: 1 punto extra para la evaluación.
Consejos para comentar un vídeo:
Se trata, en este caso, de destacar algo significativo del vídeo. Si tomas notas en tu cuaderno valdrían los apuntes que tomes. Puedes destacar lo más curioso, lo más sorprendente e interesante para ti. Podrías hacer un dibujo, una frase, algún contenido que te parezca relevante en el tema que estamos trabajando: el origen del nombre de las notas.
Ya sabes que puedes comentar los vídeos utilizando algunas de las guías que tiene en este link:
El resto de las actividades de este trimestre fueron:
1- Hildegard von Bingen ( one of the most important female composers from Middle Ages).
2- Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi, belonging to Carmina Burana. We spoke about goliards.
3- Secular music from Middle Ages ( Cantigas and medieval instruments).
Todos estos temas pueden trabajarse en la entrada sobre la Edad Media en este mismo blog:
We painted rose windows ( rosetones) and miniatures belonging to "Cantigas de Santa María", by Alfonso X the Wise.
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| Póster de Celia Ramos |
SEMANA CULTURAL
Finally, we celebrated concerts in our playground.
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| Mario Barba y Eduardo Holguín |
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| Irene Gervasini |
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| Manuel |
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| Iñigo |
Seguimos actualizando este reportaje de fotos.
Y Ricardo Pulgarín y Carlos Vargas. El departamento de Música celebró por todo lo alto la Semana Cultural.
Sólo podemos estar muy agradecidos por haber podido disfrutar del talento de nuestros alumnos.
Los ganadores del concurso fueron Lucía Vital y Mario Barba.
Esta es la visión de algunos de nuestros alumnos:
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| Dibujos de Elena Santervás |
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| Dibujo de Carmen |
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| Dibujo de Omar |
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| Rafa´s drawing |
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| Celia Ramos´s drawings |
Como trabajo práctico , dos grupos crean coreografías en el patio, ya que el Renacimiento y luego el Barroco son épocas en las que la danza es una de las actividades más importantes que va a inspirar a compositores. 
tierra mía do nací.
Si muriese sin ventura,
sepúltenme en alta sierra,
por que no extrañe la tierra
mi cuerpo en la sepultura;
y en sierra de grande altura,
por ver si veré de allí
las tierras a do nací.
Soledad tengo de ti,
¡oh! tierras donde nací.
Baroque period:  |
| Celia Ramos´ drawing |
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| Inés´s drawing |
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| Jiahui ´s drawing |
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| Baroque Musical forms ( Irene Corchero´s summary) |
SPRING CONCERTO ( BY ANTONIO VIVALDI)
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| Lourdes Lozano´s photo |
di vegetabile,
cara ed amabile,
soave più.
de una planta,
querida y amable,
más suave.
