miércoles, 30 de noviembre de 2022
martes, 1 de noviembre de 2022
Styles of singing
There are lots of styles of singing. Listen to some of them
- Bel canto: singing beautifully, flexibly and smoothly, in a similar style from top to bottom.
- Scat: vocal improvisation with wordless vocables, nonsense syllables or without words at all (from 1:31 to 1:50 minutes, 2:15-2:34)
- Screaming: vocal technique often used in punk rock. Singers can sing very high or very low and always very loud (from3:40 minutes)
- Beat boxing: form of vocal percussion, the art of producing drum beats, rhythm and musical sounds using one's mouth.
- Yodeling: singing rapidly making changes from chest voice to the head register, making a high-low-high-low sound. From second 0:34.
- Syllabic & melismatic. Syllabic: one syllable, one note. Melsimatic: one syllable, lots of notes
Styles of singing (how voices are organised)
- Singing in harmony: different melodies
- Call and response: alternation of singers
- Solo singing. One singer, one melody.
Vocal ensembles
Vocal ensembles
A Choir is a group of singers. Each part is performed by more than one singer.
Male voices
The countertenor is a special male voice, even higher than the tenor. Countertenors generally sing in the falsetto register.
The tenor is the highest common male voice
The baritone sings the top part of the bass range and the bottom part of the tenor range
The bass is the lowest male voice
Female voices
The soprano is the highest female voice
The mezzo-soprano is the middle-range type for females.
The contralto (or alto) is the lowest female voice
domingo, 26 de junio de 2022
The Twin Quavers collection of homemade musical instruments
First year students have made their own musical instruments. This is the 2022 collection.
Here you can see the cards they create accompanying the instruments
Finally, we can see some students playing the instruments made by themselves
The Twin Quavers exhibition of album covers
As every year, 2º ESO students have had to design an album cover. They also had to research into the band or the singer who performs the selected song.
martes, 31 de mayo de 2022
A look to the past: traditional songs from Asturias
Este es un trabajo realizado por el alumnado de 2º ESO CD de Música Bilingüe para el Proyecto eTwinning.
This is a music project done by 23 second-year bilingual pupils (aged 13-14). The main purpose of this project is to show our traditional musical heritage.
Our source is the “Cancionero musical de la lírica popular asturiana” a songbook that contains 500 tunes collected by the ethnomusicologist Eduardo Martinez Torner. The songbook was published in 1920: this means that all the songs were part of the Asturian traditional repertoire: at least from the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.
Eduardo Martínez Torner travelled all around Asturias listening to people’s voices in order to register chants and dances that were about to be forgotten as a consequence of the emigration from the countryside to the cities due to the industrialization process that happened in the second half of the 19th century.
Every pupil transcribed one melody from the facsimile edition of 1920. They did this task by using Musescore, a free score editor. Apart from the tune, files include relevant information such as title, genre (dance, lullaby, worksong..) and the village where the music was collected. Due to the fact that traditional music is trasmitted orally we do not know the name of the authors. Tunes were created collectively over the years. This information was traslated into English by the students with the support of the English teaching assistant.
After transcribing the tunes, every piece of music was saved as picture (PNG) and audio (MP3) formats so that they can be shown. The music was uploaded to the audio distribution platform Soundcloud.
Every note in this Padlet Maps includes the picture of the transcribed score, the song title, the genre it belongs to, the place where it was collected and the name of the pupil who did this work and uploaded the note.
You can listen to the tune by clicking on the title . In addition, you can expand your knowledge about Asturias if you click on the name of the place where the song was collected.
Our selection of tunes is based on demonstrating different types of songs from different places in Asturias. It consists of 23 short and simple tunes in 2/4 and 6/8 times. We hope you enjoy them!
1st row (from left to right): Diego Martínez, Asur Rodríguez, Ikram Elliya, Nora Hidalgo, Nerea Gómez.
2nd row: Adrián Lozano, Mateo Bueno, Celia Coma, Enzo Pérez, Iyán Arce, Lucas Alfonso, Lucas Salas, Marina Fernández, Martina Pérez, Hugo Gutiérrez, Nicolás Sánchez.
3rd row: Llara García, Mencía García, Marina Arboleya, Claudia González, Carmen Arboleya, Lucía Gutiérrez.
martes, 1 de febrero de 2022
Types of times
Duple | Binary
F.J. Haydn: Symphony No. 101 “The Clock”L. V. Beethoven: Symphony nº 7.
Robert Schumann. Scenes from Childhood, Nº 1
Triple | Ternary
Quadruple
Camille Saint Saëns: Carnival of the Animals. Aquarium
Bee Gees. Stayin Alive
The Beatles. Love me do
lunes, 31 de enero de 2022
Tempo
2. Concierto para clarinete . W.A. Mozart. Adagio. Slow.
3. Another Day of Sun. Justin Hurwitz. Allegro. Quickly
4. Dance of the Elves. David Popper. Presto. Very quickly.
4. Saturn. The Planets. Gustav Holst. Adagio. Slow
5. Spiegel im spiegel. Arvo Part. Largo. Very slow
6. Flight of the Bumblebee. Rimsky Korsakov | Presto. Very quickly.
domingo, 9 de enero de 2022
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