Categories: Music Teaching Activities (Primary), Music Teaching Activities (Secondary)
I often find it a delicate task to encourage youngsters to listen to what is considered by some, strenuous or exotic music. I like to lead them though this thorny endeavour with something that is perhaps more familiar to them. One such technique is the use of graphic scores.
Categories: Music Teaching Activities (Primary), Music Teaching Activities (Secondary)
Inspiration Cards: These are brightly-hued cards with some sort of brightly-hued swirl of an image intended to inspire brightly-hued, fantastical musical ideas to come flooding from their brains to the instruments they’re holding.
Categories: Music Teaching Activities (Primary), Music Teaching Activities (Secondary)
I developed a series of graphic scores to help youngsters, particularly in the upper primary/lower secondary years with the process and techniques of composing music, particularly with the structure of their pieces and the development of musical ideas.
Categories: Music Teaching Activities (Primary), Music Teaching Activities (Secondary)
I have frequently used a visual art technique/concept as inspiration, with the resulting art works being then interpreted through music, and becoming a Graphic Score as a subsidiary role.
Categories: Music Teaching Activities (Primary)
It is an effective and wonderful way to help very young learners with their reading and writing skills using music as the learning medium.
Categories: Music Teaching Activities (Primary), Music Teaching Activities (Secondary)
Graphic Scores are a wonderfully useful and creative tool for use in composing activities with youngsters.
Categories: Composery Life
What’s the Big Sing Finale in Dunedin all about, then? It’s about 23 of the best young choirs in New Zealand coming together for one big three-day-long fiesta of showing each other what they’re chorally made of …..
Categories: Music Teaching Activities (Primary), Music Teaching Activities (Secondary)
I’ve been asked a few times by colleagues and others to provide ideas for Harvest or Autumn assemblies. Here’s one of my favourites.
Categories: Composery Life
I’ve been to Lupset every week for a year and a half to help with the Yew Tree Youth Music production of Something Special.
Categories: Composery Life
There’s nothing more thrilling for this composer than finding out about recent or upcoming performances of your pieces. This happened to me in New Zealand recently….and I got to meet the performers!
