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

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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