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.