Categories: Composery Life
September starts with lots of cleaning, visits, birthdays, music still to finish, concerts to prepare for, hospital visits. One of the songs I am in the process of composing is called “Not The Kind Of Song You’d Sing In The Shower”. Follow its progress here in what is already a busy month.
Categories: Composery Life
August marks the end of the old choir year and the beginning of the new, and I’m intending that it also marks in my mind a new start with the composing which I’ve struggled with in recent weeks. I have new songs to write for specific purposes so the foundations stones are there.
Categories: Composery Life
July will be dominated by the installation of a new kitchen and bathroom. It had already started in June and will continue through the entire month. Music has to be composed too. It simply has to be!
Categories: Composery Life
June is going to busy. There’s composing to do, choirs to conduct, concerts to play and sing in, visitors from home and abroad to entertain, house renovations to endure, family birthdays to celebrate…I’d best get cracking then…
Categories: Composery Life
After two stuttering months, I’m aiming for more composing and new beginnings in May. Keep up to date with my daily composer doings here.
Categories: Composery Life
April will be more productive than March, I’ve decided. Tune in here each day to check on progress!
Categories: Composery Life
It’s started with snow. Let’s see how it pans out. I can tell you that there’ll be gardening (once the snow’s melted, and composing.
Categories: Music And Science Mini Units, Music Teaching Activities (Primary)
“Why not take a music journey through the digestive system?” I once asked myself when, confronted with a year 4 class whose teacher wanted them to learn about food and nutrition in my music lessons. The digestive processes lend themselves readily to replication in musical composition, after all!
Categories: Music And Science Mini Units, Music Teaching Activities (Primary)
Another science and music unit. This one started with what is now the ending – a request by a Year 1 class teacher to help with a musical presentation for Book Week on the theme of Visions Of the Future. I then developed the science aspect for future use.
Categories: Music And Science Mini Units, Music Teaching Activities (Primary)
When asked to design some musical ideas to help with the study of flowering plants for some 9-10 year olds, I composed a song and then went to town with a complete unit of work using science and music curricula, with a bit of art and dance thrown in for good measure.
