¡¡¡ Felices Fiestas !!!

Skating on ice

Imagine, by John Lennon

Commemorating the Human Right's Day, we are going to practice this easy melody on recorders:

Students your own age debating about the role of woman:

Entrevista sobre el estreno de mi nuevo trabajo en Tve

Closing the gender gap

The situation worldwide very clearly explained here:

https://www.theunitedstateofwomen.org/blog/closing-gender-gap/

Welcome to the Baroque Period

Let's start this unit with a couple of versions of the same piece of music by J.S.Bach: the celebrated Aria from the Suite in D. The first one is performed by a small orchestra, the second one by a harmonica:

Closing the gender gap

Renaissance music: The madrigal

These days we are studying the music from the Renaissance. Madrigal is a quite interesting and sometimes funny form of vocal secular music from this period:

La increíble Malena interpretando al piano una composición propia en nuestro 'Micrófono Abierto' de los jueves

Poesía, pintura y música en nuestro Micrófono Abierto de los Jueves

All the information about your country:

The CIA webpage has got lots of info about all the countries in the world. Simply search for the one you need at:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/sp.html

How to speak in public...

… from a great speaker: Barak Obama:

Global Classrooms is Model UN

An interesting description of Global Classrooms by the organizers in America:

http://www.unausa.org/global-classrooms-model-un

Short history of the United Nations

¿Qué es Global Classrooms?

Esta semana comenzamos nuestro trabajo Global Classrooms, en el que el IES Villajunco participa desde hace más de 10 años. Aquí os dejo un video protagonizado por uno de los participantes:

Viva la vida, by Coldplay

Hello again. Today we are going to practice some British pop by Coldplay.

First, listen to the song 'Viva la vida' performed by German violin player David Garrett:



Then play this accompaniment with your mates, We need at least four people, as we are going to play chords on the recorder, which is a monophonic instrument:

Then another student play the melody on a glockenspiel:

Here we go again !!!

Hello everyone and welcome to School Year 2018-2019.

We have some good energetic music for you: celt fussion band from Cantabria, Sistemia. Enjoy:

Enjoy your summer everybody

 Dear students: it's been a really intense year. We have learned lots of stuff and we've grown in many ways. It has been a great pleasure to work with you all during these last months. Now enjoy your deserved holidays.

Queridos estudiantes: ha sido un curso intensísimo en el que hemos aprendido todos mucho y hemos crecido en todos los sentidos. Ha sido un enorme placer trabajar con vosotros todos estos meses. Ahora disfrutad del merecido descanso

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Chariots of fire by our 2ºESO students

recorded in June 2018, this is one of our 'Micrófono abierto' performances. Our students & teachers gather once a week to play music, read poetry, tell stories,....
   Enjoy!

Extraordinary music from Indonesia: The gamelan

In this last weeks of the school year we are going to dive into Asian music. Let's make a Gamelan combo.

   Gamelan is a very special kind of music with hypnotic rhythms and astonishing dynamics.

Kids advices' for Harry and Meghan

... and useful for any other married couple:
Check it out here

Moon River con flauta dulce

Gracias a Don Lu por este video. Vamos a aprender a tocar esta preciosa canción de Henry Mancini:

Survey for our students

Help us improve our teaching. Take a second to answer these surveys:

click here for 1º ESO

click here for 2º ESO

click here for 3º ESO

click here for 4º ESO

Outstanding report about the Franco era by France24

Música y cine

El comienzo de la película 'La lista de Schindler' es un excelente recurso para reflexionar sobre la importancia de la banda sonora en una película: Os propongo escuchar la escena sin mirarla, luego verla sin sonido y finalmente comprobar cómo cómo se utiliza la banda sonora:
- hay músicas no diegéticas que se convierten en diegéticas
- hay conversaciones que no se escuchan (y no hay necesidad)
- hay diferentes maneras de transitar de una escena a la siguiente

What the hell is Cambridge Analytica?

Piensa muy bien antes de publicar tus cosas personales en redes sociales

Spain and the Franco Era

40 years after the death of the dictator, the BBC explains how they see the legacy of the dictator in the Spanish society:
 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34844939

Workshop on Computer Music 2018

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

Amazing view on third symphony by Beethoven

News Review from the BBC

Today we'll delve into terrorism and the Internet:

Here is the content:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/course/newsreview/unit-1/session-4

And you can dowload the audio here:
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newsreview/unit_1/170919_news_review_online_extremism_download.mp3

Músicas de vanguardia

La música de vanguardia incluye obras experimentales del siglo XX, en las que se cuestiona la forma de hacer música que había imperado hasta entonces: se utilizan ruidos cotidianos grabados con un micrófono, combinaciones aleatorias, sonidos generados electrónicamente... veamos tres ejemplos:

Pierre Henry fue un autor francés que utilizó sonidos de la vida cotidiana grabados con un micrófono y mezclados con pericia para producir la llamada 'música concreta':


Karlzheim Stockhausen fue un alemán que experimentó con la electrónica. En 'El canto de los adolescentes' mezcla sonidos generados electrónicamente con voces de niños cantando o hablando:




El norteamericano John Cage fue más allá: escribió una obra en cuya partitura no había escrita ni una sola nota, solo silencios: se titula 4'33'' en referencia a su duración. Lo interesante de esta obra no es lo que Cage compuso, sino los sonidos generados por el público atónito o indignado durante el estreno:

Six minute English

This week we will discuss about viral videos.
- First listen to this podcast:

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/6min/170817_6min_english_viral_videos_download.mp3

- Then read the script: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/6min/170817_6min_english_viral_videos.pdf

- and then answer to the questions and memorize the vocabulary: http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english/ep-170817

Educantabria talking about Global Classrooms again

http://www.educantabria.es/noticias/39718163-conferencia-global-classrooms-2018.html

Catalonian crisis as seen by the BBC learning service

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/course/newsreview/unit-1/session-6

460 students at Global Classrooms Conference

Great pictures from a great Conference held at Universidad de Cantabria on March 9th, 2018. Congrats to all participants

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Expresionismo

La música del expresionismo huye del concepto de belleza: el compositor ya no busca una música que agrade al oyente, sino más bien provocar la emoción a través de experiencias muchas veces traumáticas. Podéis comprobarlo en este fragmento de la ópera Wozzek, del compositor austríaco Alban Berg, en la que el crimen es acompañado de una música escalofriante.

Global Classrooms at Educantabria

The Educational web 'Educantabria' speaks about our participation in the Global Classrooms Program:

http://www.educantabria.es/noticias/39718117-global-classrooms-se-celebrara-el-9-de-marzo-en-la-universidad-de-cantabria.html

A refugee camp from the point of view of a teenager

Rooms for debate - Global Classrooms Conference March 9th

2018 Global Classrooms Conference slideshow

Global Classrooms Conference at IES Villajunco 2018

Last week our 2ºESO students got involved in the Global Classrooms Conference with 119 students from 4 different schools. Here are some of their speeches:

Cómo se prepara una ópera

Quizás no lo parezca, pero montar una ópera requiere un laborioso trabajo de varios días que implica a muchas personas. Estamos deseando asistir al estreno de 'Silencios y excusas' este sábado. La primera ópera de autores cántabros estrenada con un elenco de artistas de aquí

Fear of migrants feeds growth of Italy’s far right

Worrying news are coming from Italy. As citizens, we need to find the truth over some political poisonous messages:

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/fear-of-migrants-feeds-growth-of-italy-s-far-right-1.3393398

Las marzas se acercan

The tradition of 'Las Marzas' is quite popular in our beloved Cantabria. It consists of a celebration of the month of March and the harvest time. There is a lot of enjoyable information about it in this presentation:

The Swan Lake

Romantic Period is one of the most prolific times in history of music. We will start our study of 19th Century with this delicious ballet: The Swan Lake, by russian composer P. Tchaikovsky. The video below is the complete work -it lasts 2 hours- and I highly recommend to watch it quietly one day.

Rare Instruments

Thanks to Angel, we can enjoy this highly interesting movie about rare instruments:

Did you know?

The National Anthem of Germany is taken from a String Quartet by Classical composer J. Haydn.
Listen to the original quartet:




And this is the National Anthem:

Classical & Mozart

This week we'll delve into Classical Period, which took place along the second half of the 18th Century.
This Aria of the Queen of the Night, from The Magic Flute is an exceptional example of the use of human voice at its most.

Happy New Year 2018

Here we come again with lots of activities and tons of musics.
To have a perfect kick off, listen to this astonishing music clip from the movie 'LaLaLand'