Curso 2022-2023. 2º ESO. Sección Bilingüe.

Music is everywhere

This year we started watching a film, August Rush. 

Valeria Campillejo´s front page

Link to the film and activities about it. 

Working about leitmotivs

Inmediately after, we review some contents from last year and started to compose leitmotivs. 

Link to leitmotivs in drive

In this link the most interesting activities will be published. 

What´s a leitmotiv? 

Foley effects. The magic of making sounds

We worked about the scary music in films watching two videos: 

Jaime Altozano ( "Cómo se hacen los sonidos en las pelis de terror")

The nightmare machine

Esther Sánchez´s front page

Saint´s day

We played this song with our ukeleles

Paola Jaro´s image

In the 27th of October, we had the opportunity to have a meeting with Joaquín Araújo

Adrián Cobos´s portfolio

Music in the Middle Ages

We started to work about the music during The Middle Ages writing the Saint Johannes hymn in the ancient musical notation. 

Link to the music during The Middle Ages in this blog

Carmina Burana

We worked about this work ( Medieval and Modern Carmina Burana)

Check all you learnt with this exam in google forms

Finally, we worked about "Cantigas de Santa María" doing different activities. 

Listen to this recording performed by 2º A. 

In 15th of February we went to "Mithos", a special concert performed by Abraham Cupeiro and OEX.

You can watch a summary of the concert in the last link. 

We studied one of the first female composer, Hildegard von Bingen

We finished the trimester speaking about the Medieval heritage over pop music and recording two tracks. 

Track one ( Ara, Ángela (OMD- Jean of Arc-), Esther, Carmen ( Corvus Corax)- David, Sofía and Ziqi (Fiesta pagana de Mago de Oz)Sara y Sofía ( Hevia), Rodrigo and Julio ( Enigma). 

Track two ( Amalia y Marcos- Enigma) Sofía and Celia ( "Tiene que llover a cántaros" by Pablo Guerrero) María José ( Halleluah by Leonard Cohen) Pablo and Lino ( "Palabras para Julia" performed by Paco Ibáñez) and Julia Aitana and María ( Contamíname, by Pedro Guerra). 

In class we played "Perfect" and "I´m Yours" ( because Love is one of the main themes from troubadours. 

We also played Another brick in the wall as a protest song.

An finally, we played Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen and watched this interesting video. 

In order to work about International Woman´s day, we were dancing a known choreo and we learnt a new song: What happens when a woman takes power? 

Inmediately after, we studied Renaissance period : 

Sara Rincón´s drawing

Ángela Martínez´s drawing

and we prepared a trip to Burgos to know Monasterio de Silos, Atapuerca and Burgos cathedral. 

We enjoyed the trip very much. 

You can enjoy photos and videos in this link: 

Vídeo de Irene Vega

The last topic we dealt with was Baroque music. 

At the beggining we worked about the hits: 

Then, we worked a worksheet about The four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi

We played "trotting horses" so typical in rhythm during Baroque period

We drew some Baroque instruments: 

David Romaniuc´s drawing

Ziqi´s drawing

We produced a video to celebrate World Environment day 2023

Ombra mai fu, by Haendel, performed by Philippe Jaroussky

Clara Martínez´s flowers

We finished our year celebrating a concert in class performing our favourite pieces of music. 

Thank you for this excinting year.