Clap the pulse, clap the rhythm, make up your own rhythms that add up to 4 beats. The musical genius Mozart will help us!
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Rhythms of Aranjuez
Categories: Music Teaching Activities (Primary), Music Teaching Activities (Secondary)
Tackle some 3/4 6/8 cross rhythms and play along with Rodrigo’s famous guitar concerto.
Song Stories: Our School Is Like The Taj Mahal
Categories: Music Teaching Activities (Primary), Music Teaching Activities (Secondary), Song Stories
This school song was written for the opening of a new school building at Grangetown Primary School in Sunderland. It compares the new school to other famous buildings around the world. The lyrics have been successfully adapted by several other schools.
Graphic Scores – Aids to Listening
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.
Graphic Scores – Inspiration Cards
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.
Graphic Scores – Musical Structure and Development
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.
Graphic Scores – Starting With Art
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.
Graphic Scores – Introduction
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.
Autumn Composing Activities
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.
