Music

//This page contains ideas, information, and materials for teaching and learning about music in Spanish.//toc

=Children's Songs=

=Folk Songs=

=Interviews with Musicians=

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[|LandfillHarmonic Teaser] media type="youtube" key="fXynrsrTKbI?rel=0" height="315" width="560" - A great trailer in Spanish (with English subtitles) with very short interview clips from students about their experiences playing in a recycled orchestra in a very poor community in Paraguay that makes instruments from recycled materials found in a landfill. Tagline: "The world sends us garbage. We send back music." and "People realize that we shouldn't throw away trash carelessly. Well, we shouldn't throw away people either."

=Music by Historical Periods=

- This site contains udio files and lyrics of songs from both the Republican and National sides of the Spanish Civil war, along with links to other materials about the Spanish Civil War in Spanish

**Music by Language Level**

- Cloze-type listening exercises linked to YouTube music videos from famous Spanish-speaking musicians, marked in terms of beginners, intermediate, and advanced

=Regional Music=

- A Google Map with links to videos of both folk and popular music from Spanish-speaking countries around the world

- A collection of Bolivian and Andean music playable in Windows Media Player and Real Audio Player

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- A collection of music from the Andes which can be listened to using Real Audio Player

[|Echar Pa'lante El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico] media type="custom" key="25316176" - Discusses how Puerto Ricans worked together to overcome adversity, and how a group of musicians encourages people to continue to do so.

=Popular Artists=

[|The 50 Greatest Latin Songs of All Time] - Descriptions in English with videos in Spanish

[|Daddy Yankee] [|Don Omar] Jarabe de Palo [|Pitbull] Reik [|Wisin y Yandel]

= = **Pop Charts**

- Top 40 charts for Latin music

- Listen to the Top 40 songs from the Latin charts, see which songs are moving up/down, etc.

- Charts from Mexico

- See the [|most popular song in each Spanish-speaking country], or view the week'sTop 10 songs from the Latin charts by [|ranking]

- MTV3 (Info in English - browse by [|artist], playlist)

- Use the dropdown menu to access the Top 20 from Argentina, Chile, Spain, and the Hispanic USA

= Resources =

[|A Kid's Tour of Latin Music Through Google Maps] - A Google Map with links to videos of both folk and popular music from Spanish-speaking countries around the world

- A collection of coloring pages of musical instruments in Spanish

- Searchable database of children's music, popular music, interviews, and other recordings you can use to build your own playlists

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=Songs About Social Issues=

"De que me sirve la vida" por Camila - The music video shows a lot of common social issues on a personal level and help overcome them. The end of the video shows several resources (counseling centers, etc.)

Great lesson plan idea to go with this song [|here.]

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[|Canción para un niño de la calle by Mercedes Sosa] media type="youtube" key="apzGIJNipdY?rel=0" height="349" width="560"

media type="youtube" key="JIwNqGWOaCk?rel=0" height="349" width="560" - Jarabe de Palo's song //Depende// set to works by famous Spanish-speaking artists (great for helping students consider the importance of multiple perspectives)

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- Interactive activities created by Barbara Kuczun Nelson based on the song by Maná designed to help students practice environmental vocabulary, affirmative and negative commands, present subjunctive, future tense, and past participles as adjectives

Los hijos de la oscuridad

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- Interactive exercises created by Barbara Kuczun Nelson for the song //La historia de Juan// by Juanes that allow students to learn about the plight of street children in Spanish-speaking countries while practicing the preterit tense

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- A set of interactive activities by Barbara Kuczun Nelson based on the song //Ofrendas,// an image essay, and interviews designed to help students practice the future tense and food vocabulary

- Interactive exercises for Juan Luis Guerra's song (which is great for practicing the present subjunctive) created by Barbara Kuczun Nelson

[|Pito pito colorito] - Popular choosing rhyme turned into the pop song //Onda buena// by Barrio Rio (teachers may wish to stop the song after the 2nd//fuera//) media type="custom" key="9763646"

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- A set of interactive activities by Barbara Kuczun Nelson designed to help students learn about various aspects of the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain during San Fermín as they practice the preterit v. imperfect based on the song //Uno de enero//

// -// Debates and simulations about different social issues

=Tools=

- Select the target language, choose your favorite pop song from the target culture from an existing list of music videos, then select easy/intermediate/hard. As the video plays, it pauses so you can type the missing words (i.e., in a cloze exercise)

See also: Entertainment, Famous People, Heroes, Nursery Rhymes, Poetry