Exchange with Münster- Dec13

A short slideshow of our German adventure in the beautiful city of Münster, in Westfalia (Germany). We are keen on having our German colleagues here in Santander next Spring.

A couple of good films about Beethoven

Good bye, Mr Argenta

I remember well when I first met you, a few years ago. You wrote the prologue of a book we produced at our school.
  Thank you for all you have done for spreading classical music to a big audience. Rest in peace Fernando Argenta

Muere Fernando Argenta, la voz de 'Clásicos Populares' y 'El Conciertazo'

• Muere Fernando Argenta, la voz de 'Clásicos Populares' y 'El Conciertazo'

I Can't Help Falling in Love With You

 Do you remember this?


   Have you ever sung it to someone?
   It's a beautiful song by Elvis with a nice title: "Can't help falling in love".
Our 2ºESO students made this lovely performance:

Submarine Square

We are proud to announce that there is a new space for music and arts at our school: It is located between the English Department and the Music Classroom in the 2nd floor, and we call it the "Submarine Square", because there is a big poster of that album's cover painted in the wall.
  The inaugural ceremony was held yesterday and we, teachers and students, played some music by the fab-four, including "When I'm sixty-four" and of course "Yellow Submarine".
  By the way, the two guys playing harmonica and ukelele are not John and Paul, but Pepe and Fran.

Feliz Aniversario, Señor Argenta

Today Ataulfo Argenta, the great musician from Cantabria would have turned 100.
   To commemorate, all our 2º ESO students went to Palacio de Festivales to watch a play about him and his music.
   Here are some pictures of the visit:

Our towns - homework for our 'Play on!' project

Ok. We have just introduced ourselves. Now we have to take one step beyond: lets talk about your city.
This is what you have to do:

1.- Take a picture of a place of your interest in your city
2.- Access TwinSpace with your credentials
3.- Click on 'Project activities'



4.- Click on 'Our towns' at the left side of the screen












5.- Click on the city you are going to talk about: Santander & surroundings or Münster & surroundings












6.- Click on 'Post new Thread'













7.- Write a paragraph explaining why you like that place
8.- Upload the picture of your choice by clicking on the button 'Attach file', at the end of the page

9.- Don't forget to click on 'Save' when you are done

"Qué quieres que te traiga", by 1º ESO students.

These are the songs we are preparing with 2º ESO students. One by Elvis and one by The Beatles. As soon as they are ready we will upload our performances.

Thanks, Nikki

We are lucky to have Nikki as our Global Classrooms assistant. She has a webpage where you can find all the stuff she does during her lessons:

https://sites.google.com/site/nikkiatvillajunco/home

Playbacks for our 'Popullar' project

Play hard:

Radioactive:


Rock me:

Wake me up:


More than friends:

eTwinning- Let's get started

So we are now ready to dive into the fascinating world of eTwinning. All bilingual students in 2º ESO are given a user name and a password to access eTwinning.
   The first thing you have to do is enter this page:

http://new-twinspace.etwinning.net

   You will see this:

 

Then click on 'Login' and enter your username and password.
After that, click on the name of our project: 'Play on'
Then go to the 'Project activities' tag and select the activity named 'Introduce yourself'
Then look for the button labeled 'Post new thread'
Finally, write a paragraph talking about yourself: your name, your age, your hobbies, your family,...

and, if you like, explore all the tools in the Twinspace website. Enjoy !!

Welcome, German colleagues !!!

We are proud to announce the kick off of our eTwinning Project 'Play On!'. Both, IES Villajunco in Santander and Marienschule in Münster (http://www.marienschulemuenster.de/) are eager to get our students involved in this common adventure. To whet the appetite we suggest to start exploring the city of Münster on this map:


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Summer haze

Believe it or not, summer is still here. Let's say goodbye to this season with this amazing performance of Vivaldi's summer -from the four seasons- by the incredible violin player Vanessa Mae.

Happy New School Year 13-14

Full of energy after summer holidays, we have lots of ideas and projects to boost our passion for music.
  Let's start with kind of a blending of quite different styles: salsa and hard rock. Do you think it's imposible to mix them together? then watch this video:

Goodbye, school year 2012-2013 !!

Algunas cuestiones del tema 4 (4º)

-Define las siguientes expresiones:
   polifonía, villancico, ensalada, zarzuela, música mozárabe, monodia, música profana, ópera
-Características del renacimiento español
-Di tres autores del renacimiento español
-¿Para qué instrumento compone Gaspar Sanz?
-El barroco en España
-Cita un compositor español para orquesta del barroco
-Cita un músico de vihuela
-¿De dónde proviene el nombre 'zarzuela'?
-¿Cuáles son los lugares de la organización musical en el Renacimiento español?
-¿En qué año entran los árabes en la Península Ibérica?
-Cita cuatro manuscritos con música española de la Edad Media
-Ordena cronológicamente estos periodos:
  Renacimiento, Barroco, Edad Media

Hit the road Jack

Today we are going back to the 50's with this classical song by Ray Charles

Stella splendens

Some questions made up in 2º1

- Who wrote 'Peter and the wolf'
- Classification of voices
- How many kinds of pianos are there?
- Types of brass instruments
- Plucked instruments
- What type of instrument is saxophone?
- In which century did Prokofiev live?
- Classify these instruments from the lowest to the highest:
     viola-violin-cello-contrabass
- write the name of these instruments (listening)
- write the name of these voices (listening)
- Enumerate five string instruments
- Name the male's highest voice
- What is the timbre?
- Write the name of these instruments (pictures)
- What does 'a capella' mean?
- Enumerate five woodwind instruments
- Types of percusion instruments
- What is the 'cabasa'?
- Types of mouthpieces
- Where was Prokofiev from?
- Write the name of five characters in 'Peter and the wolf' with their instruments
- Write the name of each part in the voice production

Some questions made up in 2º2

- Write the name of these instruments
- Classification of women's voices
- What material is the 'cabasa' made of?
- Instrument families
- Why the result of playing the same song with different instruments is not the same?
- Change the order of the letters to find the name of some instruments:
     eboo    osnosba    capiclo    teulf
- Which instrument in the wind family doesn't have pistons or keys?
- It's shaken, it's made of vegetables. What instrument is it?
- What does 'a capella' mean?
- Draw this instrument: Tubular bells
- What is the difference between the acoustic and the spanish guitar?
- How did they call male singers with woman's voices in the baroque period?
- Percussion instruments that are played scratching
- Draw a human body and write the parts of the voice production
- Name three characters in 'Peter and the wolf' and their instruments
- Who composed 'Peter and the wolf'?
- Where was he from?
- What period did he belong to?

Some questions made up in 2º3

- Classification of human voices
- Ways of playing string instruments
- What is the timbre?
- Types of mouthpieces
- Type of percusion instruments
- Woodwind instruments
- Families of instruments
- Instruments of the bowed string family
- Who wrote 'Peter and the wolf'?
- Is this instrument a harp or a piano?
- Enumerate instruments of the brass family that you know
- What is your favourite instrument? what family does it belong? why do you like it?
- Write the name of these instruments (listening)
- Write the name of these voices (listening)
- Who was Prokofiev
- What is his musical style?
- What kind of instrument is piano?
- Write 5 characters and their instruments in 'Peter and the wolf'

Back to 70's synth music !

Let's travel back in time to the old synth era: the 70's. The Golden time for Jean Michael Jarre and Gershon Kingsley. Will we be skilful enough to play this music in class?

Cathedra's organ

The last day before Easter Holiday, we visited the Cathedral and its organ with some students from 1º Bachillerato.

Aura Kuby visited us

I had great pleasure to share performance with this fantastic singer. I hope you all enjoyed as much as I did.

Ladies and gentlemen: The Rolling Stones !

Al Salir el sol

Música tradicional de Cantabria interpretada por nuestros alumnos

Peter and the wolf

A story written by Prokofiev about a boy and a wolf. Let's listen to the sound of different orchestral instruments and learn more about them.

Samba

Can you make up lyrics for this tune?

Hello Bo'ness

Today we sent our letters to our friends at Bo'ness Academy.
   Bo'ness is a town in Scotland, between Edinburgh and Glasgow, which has a secondary school where students learn Spanish... And we want to learn English !!
   That's why we decided to write each other. Hope all the letters arrive safely.


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http://www.bonessacademy.com/

1st Symphony by Brahms

This week we'll perform this beautiful melody by Johannes Brahms

Sk8er Boi

Coordinated with the English department, we are preparing this song. Tomorrow we'll play it in class

De scores

Los más diver del IES

The most 'diver' students in the whole school

In the hall of the Mountain King

After Carnival we start working on dynamics. This piece by E. Grieg (1843-1907) is a good example of gradual dynamic change, from very soft to really really loud.

Global Classrooms Conference. Feb-1st, 2013

Hooked on salsa

This week we go latino. We are learning how to play 'Guantanamera' and 'Oye como va' with recorders, xylophones and small percusion.

Create lyrics for this brief melody.

Can you make up lyrics for this music?. Subject: 'Winter'

Global Classrooms Conference at Villajunco

All 2º ESO students took part in the conference held at our school on Tuesday. Some students from Alisal, Cantabria and Torres Quevedo also joined the event:

Tchaikovsky, Pathetique Simphony

   This is our first listening of the year 2013 with 2º ESO. It is kind of a waltz, but instead of 3/4, the time signature is 5/4, which is a bit odd.
   2º Movement of the Simphony nº 6 (Pathetique) by Tchaikovsky

Scores for the classroom

If you like to play recorder you can find lots of scores here:

http://partiturasparaclase.wordpress.com/

  Some are classical pieces, some others are pop or rock songs ... a bit of everything.

  Many thanks to Maria Jesús for her contribution.