In our books are developed the four specific skills that the new Music syllabus for ESO establishes with the following didactic proposal:
Features
Global introduction of the contents (skills and basic knowledge) in an organized and coherent structure that allows the easy and simple use of the book.
The teacher has complete materials that allow the choice and adaptation of the teaching method, the content selection, activities and several levels in both exactitude and depth.
Autonomous learning. The students can use the book with autonomy and easily locate their interests, understand and even learn unconsciously the main concepts and their connections.
Flexibility. The book can be used in an organized and complete way, if the teacher decides it so. But it also allows the alternation or combination of contents, eliminate some of them, barely name them or deeply study them without any other sources needed.
This is a complete material, with all the diverse contents and activities (with several procedures and difficulty levels) to be a unique work tool, that is completed with all the digital resources and the specific answers for the teachers.
Quality of the text thanks to the attention to the writing, the language concision and the exactitude when introducing the contents.
Some elemental techniques for interpretation (vocal and instrumental) have been incorporated, as well as warming-up exercises and emotion control techniques.
We emphasize the role of the women in the music, in all the spheres incorporating feminine figures in the normal development of contents, but also creating a specific section for a deeper and more detailed knowledge and as well offering auditions from the most relevant women composers.
Active learning methods
Based on the real world: all the knowledge, problem or activity has an specific context and an application in the daily life and other different situations.
Learning with a more practical approach, where the students can be “involved” and learn how to “apply” the knowledge.
Teamwork: the students work in teams to solve problems and complex tasks and they accept responsibilities at the same time.
Ability to discover new knowledge: learning to learn, so each student can take control over his or her learning process.
Personal learning environment (PLE) is very diversified, integrated by contents; work methods; scores, audios, music basis, midis, activities and downloadable tasks, apps, information sources… that enable the autonomous learning.
Project based learning
A project with a transversal approach is suggested for each grade (“Traditional music” and “Final concert”) where each student becomes the protagonist of his or her learning process with a methodology based on the research, the reflection and the cooperation and which will make the students assume different roles and responsibilities.
The basis is an exciting situation for the students that includes basic knowledge, assessment criteria and skills, applied in a context or situation from the real life and whose goal is obtaining a final product.
Use of ITC
Deep use of the different apps by employing specific digital tools created for the music edition, experimentation and creation, interpretation and recording.
Music practice
Richness and diversity in the repertoire provided for the music practice and always accompanied of the corresponding simplified or adapted scores. The selection is done according to quality criteria and keeping in mind the most significant examples from the cultural music.
All the scores for the musical activities are available. These are, for the teachers, a real “treasury” as work materials and, for the students, they are an element there their effort and learning evolution can be visible.
All the suggested scores for interpretation are adapted to the instruments that are usually available in the classroom and the usual voices of the students. Also, in several cases they include supporting music bases and accompaniment.
Gamification
Several proposals based on games (individual, in small or big groups) are made: Sound riddles: to identify the sound qualities and explore different sound objects of the own vocal possibilities.
Dominoes: to work on the connection between notes and music silences.
Music equations: to work the equivalence of music durations.
Body percussion activities and batucadas.
Chrome’s music laboratory: music apps to experiment and play with sound, from sound waves to music composition.
Deck of sound cards: includes the four features of sound as the four suits in the deck with all the concepts and elements of the music language that have been studied.
Music game of the goose: game with open-ended questions about the main contents of the year that encourages the cooperation in small groups and also creativity.
Crosswords, word search, typos, intruder…
Emotional learning
The reference chart “Emotional answers to music” has been created to give each student a vocabulary that allows the identification and expression of emotions. This is now included in the books as a daily activity that completes the appreciation of music and foments the personal development of sensibility and affection.
Multiple intelligences
Encouragement of diversity and integration. Music and dance develop the multiple intelligences in all their versions: music intelligence, body and movement intelligence, spatial intelligence, individual or emotional intelligence, interpersonal or social intelligence, linguistic intelligence and logical-mathematical intelligence.
Education for sustainable development
The 17 SDO of the Agenda 2030 are studied so the students learn and promote an involvement with the most urgent challenges that the humanity is facing now: end the poverty, protect the planet and guarantee the human rights for all the people.
Skills assessment
As key element for the students’ inclusion and school success. Some activities are marked with the icons of their key skills. Also, the practices, activities and tasks have been marked with the icons of these different skills:
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Project: Traditional music
1. The characteristics of sound
2. The characteristics of sound: pitch
3. The characteristics of sound: duration
4. The characteristics of sound: intensity
5. The characteristics of sound: timbre
6. Sound organization: beat, melody, texture
7. Music structure: the music form
8. Music content and function: the music form
ISBN: 978-84-1321-834-2
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Project: Final concert
Introduction
1. Antiquity and Middle Ages
2. Renaissance
3. Baroque
4. Classicism
5. Romanticism
6. 20th century
7. Music of the world
ISBN: 978-84-1321-835-9
Music I
It focuses in working the following basic knowledge:
Listening and music perception (A). Interpretation, improvisation and scenic creation (B). They are the contents of music language and they include from the basic elements and their graphic representation (notation-scores) to work procedures (music practice) based on listening, interpretation, creation and improvisation.
