Rain, rain. Second year class DE

Glockenspiels: Covadonga Iglesias García, Mateo Prieto Suárez, Elia Ramos Córdoba. Soprano metallophones: Laura García Méndez, David García López. Alto metallophones: José Ángel Mier Arias, Miguel Alonso Palacio, Álvaro Vijande Alonso, Eloy Rubio Suárez, Ángel Álvarez Díaz. Soprano xylophones: Miguel Pérez Pérez, Elena Pérez Villarías, José Ramón Pérez Zambrano. Alto xylophones: Carmen Fernández García, Sara Rodríguez Alonso, Carlos Pérez Vera, Carolina González García. Bass xylophone: Nel Valdés Ibáñez.

Rain, rain. Second year class BC

Glockenspiels: Laura Márquez García, Celia Martínez Fernández, Lucas Ordóñez Carrio, Pedro Gómez Vázquez, Norbi Ionut Lingurar. Soprano metallophones: Diana Menéndez Témoli, Lourdes Muñiz Banciella. Alto metallophones: Marcus Araujo Pereira, Hugo Martín Alonso, Jorge Carretero Pérez, Ignacio Martínez Fernández, Darío González González. Mario Sánchez Alonso. Soprano xylophones: Marcos Labajos Álvarez, Miguel Gutiérrez García, Saúl Martínez Casal, Lucía Menéndez García. Alto xylophones: Hugo Rodríguez Bueno, Javier Rioseco Rodríguez, Javier Menéndez Osendi, Clara Inclán González. Bass xylophone: Thalía González García.

Rain, rain. Second year class A

Glockenspiels: Lino Cernuda Otero, Irene Casal García, Natalia Blanco Agudín, David Fernández Alonso. Soprano metallophone: Laura Fernández Bustelo. Alto metallophones: Cristina Álvarez Rodríguez, Héctor García González. Soprano xylophones: Enol de la Peña Álvarez, Alba de Sande López, Lucía Martínez Rodríguez, Alba Álvarez García. Alto xylophones: Mateo del Campo Martínez, Alejandro Fuentes Fuertes, Paula García Flórez. Bass xylophone: Paula Fernández Fernández.

Little Tommy Tiddlemouse. First year class DE

Glockenspiels: Marcos Calvo Noval, Enol Fernández Fernández, Iván Franco Martínez, Laura Freije Rodríguez, Paula Moro Sánchez. Soprano metallophone: Carlota Rinaudo Méndez, Valle Rivas Martínez. Alto metallophone: Pablo Prieto Muñiz, Natalia Villegas Gómez, Naza Zelaya Ramírez, Sergio Rego Criado, Lucía Sánchez Vispo, Mateo Suárez Merino, Mateo Villa Díaz. Soprano xylophone: Gadea Pérez Ortega, Ruth Ordóñez Araujo, Sarah Peñica Caballero, Álex Rodríguez Fornet. Alto xylophones: Álvaro San Martín Sánchez, Alba Sánchez Ramos, Deva Winberg Bajo, Sofía Zapico Polo. Bass Xylophone: Carla Torres Martínez.

Little Tommy Tiddlemouse. First year class BC

Glockenspiels: Inés Grande Martín, Llara López González, Pablo Martínez Álvarez, Nerea González Bernaldo de Quirós, Mateo González Martínez. Soprano metallophones: Lucía Morante González, Claudia Rodríguez Rodríguez. Alto metallophones: Marcos Rodríguez Fernández, Carlota Bárcena Lacasa, Andrea Ioana Capra, Eva Ruiz Vega, José Guillermo Saraguro León. Soprano xylophone: Inés Martínez García, Laura Menéndez Cao, David Menéndez Témoli, Carla Rodríguez Bernardo. Alto xylophone: Alicia Fernández Noval, Teresa González Fernández, Álvaro Reinaldo González, Roberto Ortiz Méndez. Bass xylophone: Rocío Fernández Franco.

Little Tommy Tiddlemouse. First year class A

Glockenspiels: Miguel Arias Tosar, Martín Arinas Ortega, Paula Fernández Álvarez, Candela Fernández Álvarez. Soprano metallophones: Alba González García, Marina Fernández Flórez. Alto metallophones: Lucía García Rodríguez, Diego del Río Iglesias, Héctor de Sande López, Marina Alonso Cabo, Rebeca Alonso Álvarez, Andrea Alonso Palacios. Soprano xylophones: Clara Balmori Álvarez-Cofiño, Olga Barja García, Celia Campomanes García, Carlota Fernández González. Alto xylophones: Pablo Fernández Menéndez, Pablo Fernández Tomé, Raúl Ibáñez Cabal, Luis Carlos Manotoa Garzón. Bass xylophone: Lara Fernández González. Claves: Pelayo Durán Abril, Carmen Fuentes López.

The singing voice

La leyenda del fauno. Concert program

The legend of the faun. Concert program

• Concerto for flute, strings and basso continuo by Antonio Vivaldi
• The storm from The four seasons by Antonio Vivaldi
• The Moldau, symphonic poem, by Bedrich Smetana
• New World Symphony by Antonin Dvorak
• Creating fauns by Andreas Prittwitz
• Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack by Hans Zimmer
• Birdland (arranged by Andreas Prittwitz), by Joe Zawinul (Weather Report)
• The firebird by Igor Stravinsky

Shake those 'Simmons down. First year class AC

Autumn leaves. Second year class CD

Autumn leaves. Second year class AB

The twin quavers exhibition of CD sleeves 2017

Second year students have designed CD sleeves. Here you can see this awesome exhibition.

Click on the picture to see the exhibition

The twin quavers collection of musical instruments 2017

Here we have The twin quavers collection of musical instruments 2017, made by first year students.

The twin quavers collection of musical instruments 2017

Homemade musical instrument card

The twin quavers collection of musical instrument. Video

Functions in music

Music is not only for entertainment and for pleasure. There are lots of functions in music. The most important are:

• Commercial. Jingle. 

• Emotional expression. How deep is your love. Bee Gees 

• Symbolic. National Anthem. UK 

• Ceremonial. Wedding March. Lohengrin. R. Wagner. 

• Social identification. Good Vibrations. The Beach Boys.

Music genres: art, popular and traditional music

Art music (classical music). It´s a written musical tradition. It tends to be considered as an elitist expression.

• Symphony nº 5. L.V. Beethoven (also instrumental, orchestral, absolute).

Popular music. It is music that is accessible to the general public.

• Le freak. Chic (also vocal accompanied).

Traditional. It´s music learned through singing and listening. Traditional music is part of the traditions of a particular region.

• Morris dance (also instrumental).

Music genres: absolute, programme and theatre music.

Absolute music makes sense without accompanying words, images, drama, dance or other kinds of extra-musical ideas.

• String quartet nº 3, op. 76. Franz Joseph Haydn.
• Sonata in C K545. W. A. Mozart.

Programme music is descriptive music, it interprets an object, landscape or emotional experience.

• The Moldau. Bedrich Smetana.
• Italian Symphony. Felix Mendelssohn.
• Scenes from childhood. Robert Schumann.
• The planets. Mars. Gustav Holst.
• The carnival of the animals. The aquarium. Camille Saint-Saëns.

Theatre music includes a variety of subgenres designed to form part of a drammatic performance (opera, cabaret, ballet, film or television program).

• The magic flute. Opera. W.A. Mozart. 
• The rite of spring. Ballet. Igor Stravinsky.
• Cats. Musical. A. Lloyd Weber.
• North by Northwest. Opening titles. Film music. Bernard Herrmann.

Music genres: vocal & instrumental music

The term genre is used to identify particular categories of arts. Music can be divided into many genres according to a number of criteria such as instrumentation, musical contents and so on.


Instrumental music. Night train, Duke Ellington

• Orchestral music. Symphony Nº 4. London. Franz Joseph Haydn. 
• Chamber music. String quartet op 59, Nº 1. Razumovsky. Ludwig van Beethoven.

Vocal music. Firework. Katy Perry.

• A capella (without instrumental accompaniment). Star Wars.
• Accompanied (with instrumental accompaniment). Route 66. Manhattan Transfer.
• Choral. Performed by a choir. Slaves chorus. Nabucco. Verdi

«¡Despegamos!», the concert. First year class A, C.

Last Tuesday, the 28th of March all the first year students went to the Príncipe de Asturias auditorium. There, we enjoyed an amazing concert, ¡«Despegamos»!, that was performed by the OSPA. The conductor of the orchestra was Rosen Milanov. He conducted the orchestra very well. First, the conductor introduced the different instrumental groups and musical instruments and, after that, the performance started. It was very interesting, because they played music related to space like Moonlight by Claude Debussy or Blast Off by Daniel Dorff. In this piece Ana Pérez, student of the ESAD acted as narrator and told us that we were going to go to space. We heard the instruments imitating the sound made by the engines of the rocket that was supposed to take us to space. 

The orchestra also played some themes that everybody knew from the Star Wars soundtrack, like the Main titles, the Imperial March and Princess Leia´s theme, all of them composed by John Williams. At the end of the performance some players dressed up as the main characters of Star Wars. They performed one of the most popular scenes of Star Wars, when Luke Skywalker fights against Darth Vader, who says «Luke, I’m your father».

At the end, when we were leaving, a journalist asked Jorge questions about the concert and he said: the concert was awesome and very interesting, and we had a lot of fun. We enjoyed it a lot!

Alba Álvarez García, 1º ESO A
Cristina Álvarez Rodríguez, 1º ESO A
Jorge Carretero Pérez, 1º ESO C
Clara Inclán González, 1º ESO C

Blast off: the concert. First year class E

On Tuesday, the 28th of March we went to the Principe de Asturias Concert Hall. There we listened to some pieces of music played by the OSPA (Symphony orchestra  from Principdo de Asturias). The conductor was Rosen Milanov. During the concert  the musicians played some musical pieces related to space and the planets like Moonlight, by Claude Debussy and Blast Off by Daniel Dorff. In addition, they played some melodies of Star Wars such as Main titles, the Imperial March and Princess Leia's theme . It was very fun because some players dressed up like the main characters of the film. Then, we went back to the high school.

The concert was fun and great. We really liked it, we recommend it because it was very interesting and cool.

Paula Fernández Fernández

Javier  Menéndez Osendi

Álvaro Vijande Alonso

Rain Rain go away, second year class CD

Rain, rain go away . Second year class CD.

Line up

Glockenspiels: Anna Sibiryakova, Raquel Riera Turiel, Pablo Rodríguez Bernardo, Gaël Winberg Bajo. Alto metallophones: Daniel Tercero Alustiza, Carla Agustiño Caveda, Iván Vizcay Gutiérrez. Soprano xylophones. Rim Bensouda, Adrián Rego Criado, Lucía Rodríguez Gutiérrez. Alto xylophones: Mateo Cuesta del Cura, Lía Rodríguez-Colubi Fernández. Bass xylophone: Jonathan Cruz Auqui.

Rain Rain go away. Second year class AB

«Rain Rain go away» is a traditional English nursery rhyme, It was dated for the first time  in the 17th century when James Howell in his collection of proverbs noted «Raine, raine goe to Spain, faire weather come againe». The most common modern version is: «Rain, rain, go away. Como again another day. Little Adrianna wants to go out and play». Here, Second years students play an instrumental version adapted by Doug Goodkin (Intery Mintery Nursery rhymes).

Line up

Glockenspiels: Martín López Fernández, Miguel Fernández Menéndez, Julio Díaz Méndez. Alto metallophones: Sara García Díaz, María Martín Alonso, Pablo Menéndez Fernández. Soprano xylophones: Diego de la Vega Cao, David Manotoa Garzón, Alba Gallo Tejón, Alto xylophones: Sergio Estrada Paredes, Miguel Mata Casado.

Little Tommy Tiddlemouse. First year class E

Little Tommy Tiddlemouse, from Making Music Fun.  First year class E

Line-up

Glockenspiels: Diana Menéndez Témoli, Hugo Rodríguez Bueno, Mario Sánchez Alonso, Álvaro Vijande Alonso. Alto metallaphones: Celia Martínez Fernández, Sergiu Gogonel, Lucía Menéndez García. Soprano xylophones: Dashiel Rojas Matanzas, Javier Menéndez Osendi, Nazarena Zelaya Ramírez. Bass xylophone: Carmen Fernández García.

Little Tommy Tiddlemouse. First year class BD

Little Tommy Tiddlemouse, from Making Music Fun. First year class BD

Line-up

Glockenspiels: Mateo del Campo Martínez, David Fernández Alonso, Ariana Fernández Fernández, Paula García Flórez, Carolina González García. Soprano metallophone: Eloy Rubio Suárez. Alto metallophones: Elena Pérez Villarias, José Ramón Pérez Zambrano, Carlos Pérez Vera, Miguel Pérez Pérez. Soprano xylophones: José Ángel Mier Arias, Hugo Martín Alonso, Laura Iglesias García, Thalía Iglesias García. Alto xylophone: Elia Ramos Córdoba, Lucas Ordóñez Carrio, Ignacio Martínez Fernández, Mateo Prieto Suárez, Bass xylophone: Sara Rodríguez Alonso. Claves: Javier Rioseco Rodríguez, Aldara Crespo Herrero, Luis Miguel Valdés Sánchez.

Little Tommy Tiddlemouse. First year class AC

The 2016-2017 concert season shows more nursery rhymes. First year students played  Little Tommy Tiddlemouse, from Making Music Fun.  Here, first year class AC. 

Line-up

Glockenspiels: Ángel Álvarez Díaz, Nel Valdés Ibáñez, Gabriel Álvarez Carvallo, Miguel Gutiérrez García, Marcos Labajos Álvarez. Soprano metallophones: Natalia Blanco Agudín, Cristina Álvarez Rodríguez. Alto metallophones: Marcus Araujo Pereira, Irene Casal García, Pedro Gómez Vázquez, Clara Inclán González, Andrés Lajara del Río, Saúl Martínez Casal. Soprano xylophones: Miguel Alonso Palacio, Alba Álvarez García, Alba de Sande López, Héctor García González. Alto Xylophones: Enol de la Peña Álvarez, Lino Cernuda Otero, Dario González González, Laura García Méndez, Bass xylophone: Jorge Carretero Pérez, Claves: Laura Márquez García, David García López, Norbi Ionut Lingurar, 

Compose your own melody

Write a melody using Musescore.  On the following page you will find the instructions.

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Harmony and texture test

Harmony and texture

Texture

Musical texture is the way musical lines interact in a piece of music. You know that there are different types of musical texture. Below you can find links to helpful videos related to texture and types of texture.  

Texture and voice in music

What is musical texture?

Music texture

Texture in 2,5 minutes

Musical textures

Texturas musicales

Types of texture

Monophonic music has only one melodic line.

Polyphonic music has several melodic lines. Types of polyphony:

Drone: The melody is played along with a note fixed in pitch.

Heterophonic texture. Two or more voices simultaneously performing variations of the same melody.

Contrapuntal texture. Two or more independent melodies played at the same time. The parts move with rhythmic independence.

Homophonic texture. Two or more parts move at the same time, together in harmony. A homophonic texture is also homorhythmic.

Melody-dominated texture. It has one clearly melodic line (it's the line that naturally draws your attention) and all other parts provide accompaniment for the lead voice

Harmony

Harmony is the use of different notes (pitches) simultaneously. Melodic music consists of notes played one after another while harmonic music consists of two or more notes played simultaneously.

Most harmony is based on chords. A chord is a group of notes played simultaneously (at the same time). The basic chord is named a triad. It consists of three notes: the root (any note you like) together with the third and the fifth above the root. When the notes of a musical chord are played separately, one after the other instead of together, we use the term arpeggio.

Chords can be majors and minors. The third above the root is major (two tones) in major chords, the third above the root is minor (one tone, one semitone) in minor chords. This is the reason why major chords sound bright and happy and minor chords sound sad and mournful.

Concord, or consonance, is a nice and pleasant sound that you get when some notes are played together, such as harmonic intervals of 3th, 6th, and 5th , 8th ones.

Discord, or dissonance, is an awful and unpleasant sound that you get when some notes are played together, such as harmonic intervals of 2nd and 7th  ones.

Tonic triads

Chords

Arpeggios

How to identify major and minor chords

Diference between consonance and disonance

A cadence is a progression of chords used to finish off a musical phrase. It creates a sense of finality or repose.

Types of cadences