Happy Christmas, dear students

Don't miss this beautiful movie about winter time in Cantabria. I, myself, wrote the music.
Enjoy

Happy Christmas from Cantabria

More on refugee crisis

Migration crisis as seen by the BBC

Sustainable development goals. What is that?

Hot Stuff, by Donna Summer

First: play the melody from the 1979 hit 'Hot Stuff'

Second: listen to the original recording in the voice of Donna Summer





and third: find the hidden words

Sitting here, eating my heart out, ________
Waiting for some lover __ _______
Dialed about a ________ numbers ________
______ rang the phone off the _____

________ _____ some hot stuff, baby, _____  _______
I ______ _____ hot stuff, baby, _______
I _____ ______ hot stuff, baby, _____ _________

Gotta have some hot stuff
Gotta have some ______ ________

 I ______ hot stuff, I ______ ______ hot stuff, I ______ hot stuff

________ for a lover who needs ________
Don't want another ______ on my _____
Wanna share my _____ with a _____ ________ lover
Wanna bring a wild man ______ _________

Fellow delegates: welcome to Global Classrooms 1st session

Today we are going to focus on the Catalonia issue. In this video you will discover how the problem is viewed from the perspective of a British newspaper:

Welcome to Global Clasrooms 17-18

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The origin of the names of the musical notes

More on 'Take on me'

Can you play this tune on recorder?

Let's get started

Hi everyone and welcome to our brand new school year 17-18. We are excited to start learning with you.
   To start with, check out this awesome performance of the 80's hit 'Take on me'. Listen and try to guess the instruments as you hear them.



And if you don't know the original song have a look at the following video:



Finally, if the tune rings a bell that's probably because it was used recently in this song:

Para ESTO también es útil la música: para ampliar tu capacidad mental

Happy Holidays!

Great pleasure to share this year with you. Now enjoy your Summer.

Bravo Coldplay!

This week we'll work on this song by British band Coldplay:

First, try to play the motive:

Then, play the chords. The song is built over a simple harmony repeated time and again::

d-d-d-d-G-G-G-G-a-a-a-a-a-a-C-G

Encuesta sobre la asignatura en inglés

Eurovilla

Today we'll work on the song "Hey Mamma", that took third place in recent Eurovision Song Contest.
  First, try and play the sax solo adapted for recorder:

Then listen to the original song and play it when needed:

Finally, find the hidden words in the lyrics:

Hey, hey you
You will never _____ what you think of me
I see your clue
Know, you  _____ , but it don’t meant to be
Hey, hey you
It’s your girl and  _____ should sleep at home
But I’ll steal her alone.
And I say…
Mamma, mamma, don’t be so  _____
I am not that  _____ boy
Mamma, mamma don’t be so down
All it keeps going  _____ and  _____
Mamma, mamma, don’t be so  _____
If you knew me, you’d be  _____
Mamma, mamma, don’t be so  _____
She’ll be back home till  _____

Dido y Eneas

Esta semana trabajaremos sobre una increíble ópera escrita hace 300 años que trata de un tema de rabiosa actualidad. Me refiero a Dido y Eneas, del compositor Henry Purcell.
   Os invito a disfrutar con estos tres fragmentos:

El lamento de Dido:



El coro de los marineros:


...y el coro de la destrucción:

Bach, then and now

Listen to these two different versions of the same music by Bach:

the original one...


and the 20th century one...
Vanessa Mae - BaCH Street Prelude por meowfrail

Manchester

Reseña de mi visita a Manchester. Pincha aquí para leerla
http://blog.educalab.es/estanciasprofesionales/2017/04/17/luces-y-sombras-en-manchester/

Taller de informática musical 2017

Here we go again. Explore some good apps to make music online (for free)

Theremin: un emulador del instrumento inventado hace tres cuartos de siglo en la Unión Soviética

http://femurdesign.com/theremin/

Lo mas simple. Una matriz donde cada recuadro es un tono

http://tonematrix.audiotool.com/

La aportación de Google al sonido y la música:

https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/

Caja de ritmos virtual:

http://patternsketch.com/

Los alucinantes cubos de la música electrónica!

http://www.buttonbass.com/

El increible poder del BeatBox:

http://www.incredibox.com/

Un secuenciador: Coloca las notas en los recuadros y escucha el resultado:

onlinesequencer.net/

Un estudio de grabación bastante completito: coloca los sonidos en cada pista y construye tu propia canción:

https://soundation.com/

Escribe e imprime tus partituras como un profesional:

https://www.noteflight.com/login

City of stars

Can you fill the gaps?

City of stars
Are you _____ just for me?
City of stars
There's so much that I can't _____
Who  _____ ?
I felt it from the first _____ I _____ with you
That now our  _____
They've _____ come true

City of stars
Just one _____ everybody _____
There in the bars
And through the _____ of the crowded _____
It's love
Yes, all we're _____ for is love from _____ else

A  _____ , a  _____ , a  _____ , a _____

A look in somebody's eyes
To light up the skies
To open the world and send it reeling
A voice that says, I'll be here
And you'll be alright

I don't care if I know
Just where I will go
'Cause all that I need is this crazy feeling
A rat-tat-tat on my heart
Think I want it to stay

City of stars
Are you shining just for me?
City of stars
You never shined so brightly





Great! Now let's play the melody:

You did a great job!

   Just finished our participation in the Regional Global Classrooms Conference, held in Universidad de Cantabria with more than 300 students from 5 different schools.
   Our delegates did a great job. Congratulations!

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Women's education in Afghanistan

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A couple of ideas for helping disabled children

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2913755/Move-Charles-Xavier-Eye-Play-Piano-allows-disabled-schoolboy-make-music-using-just-EYES.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV1XFx_wSlg

Kazachok, by our students

Students from 2º ESO performed this Ukranian folk song this week: Kazachok

Amazing virtuosity

Virtuosity is an important feature of Romantic Music and Liszt is one of the most important composers in that respect.
   Here we have the famous Lang Lang playing the 'Campanella', by Liszt

Some more thought about education

Kazachok

Have a look at the funny and energetic piece we are rehearsing these days. Ukranian folk music.

Inclusive Education and Intellectually Disabled Children in Nepal

Concurso de comics

Muy recomendable si te gusta el mundo del comic:

http://casaculturasd.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46:concurso-de-comic&catid=8&Itemid=102