Music Theory and Appreciation

Why does music excite us?

In this TED Talk in Spanish, Associate Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Paolo Bortolameolli discusses his first time attending a concert of classical music as a child and what makes Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 so intriguing. You can turn on subtitles in English to use with your non-Spanish speaking students as well.

Type and Level: High School Music Appreciation

Teoría.com in Spanish

This well-known website for music theory was originally in Spanish. Below are the links to the main page of the website and the sub-pages with descriptions of their content. You can turn the website back into English in the upper right-hand corner.

Main page: https://www.teoria.com/es/

Written music theory: https://www.teoria.com/es/aprendizaje/

How to read music: https://www.teoria.com/es/aprendizaje/lectura/

Rhythm note names: https://www.teoria.com/es/aprendizaje/lectura/03-valores.php

Beat and measures: https://www.teoria.com/es/aprendizaje/lectura/01-pulsacion.php

Dotted rhythms: https://www.teoria.com/es/aprendizaje/lectura/04-puntillo.php

Rests: https://www.teoria.com/es/aprendizaje/lectura/05-silencio.php

Reading note names (using FIXED solfege): https://www.teoria.com/es/aprendizaje/lectura/12-notas.php

Intervals (written): https://www.teoria.com/es/aprendizaje/intervalos/

Scales: https://www.teoria.com/es/aprendizaje/escalas/

Chords: https://www.teoria.com/es/aprendizaje/acordes/

Functional Harmony and Roman Numeral Analysis: https://www.teoria.com/es/aprendizaje/funciones/intro/

Form: https://www.teoria.com/es/aprendizaje/formas/

Aural Theory: https://www.teoria.com/es/ejercicios/

Chords: https://www.teoria.com/es/ejercicios/cp.php

Intervals: https://www.teoria.com/es/ejercicios/ip.php

Melodic dictation: https://www.teoria.com/es/ejercicios/md.php