Katie Wardrobe has put together 15 websites to help teach “Carnival of the Animals”
http://midnightmusic.com.au/index.php/2011/06/15-fantastic-free-carnival-of-the-animals-resources/
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For 3MBS FM’s Radiothon, Classically Kids is pulling out all the stops on 7th May, 2011…
FREE LESSON IDEA: RECORD THE RADIO SHOW TO PLAY BACK TO YOUR STUDENTS
Our special guest in the studio with us – and our new composer of the month – is French composer Hector Berlioz. Find out what he’s been up to for the last 140 odd years…
There’ll be a quiz to keep everyone on their toes…
Celebrate the birthday of Johannes Brahms…
We look at another AFL club and try to work out where their theme song came from…
And lots more…
Join Classically Kids this Saturday morning for our Radiothon Special, and if you like what we do, keep us on air by becoming a 3MBS subscriber – call 03 9416 1035.
Every subscriber gets a $30 CD voucher from Thomas’ Music and everyone goes in the draw to win a Bernstein Baby Grand, thanks to Bernie’s Music land.
Classically Kids, 3MBS 103.5FM, Saturdays 8am – 9am with Jacqui and Adam.
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Australia/Melbourne 103.5 FM
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... 3MBS FM – Program Highlights 3MBS FM is Australia’s leading Community radio station for Fine Music – Classical, Folk and Jazz.
3MBS FM can be streamed live over the internet, making it easy to tune into their “Classically Kids” program from all over the world: Saturday mornings 8-9am (AEST).
3MBS FM 103.5 if you are in Melbourne!
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Step 1. Just get your school, music class, choir or even just one person from your group to choose a piece of classical or jazz music.
Step 2. Send your request to - 3mbskids@gmail.com
Step 3. We’ll e-mail you back to let you know when we’ll be playing your request.
Step 4. Tune in and listen! Easy as that. You can listen on the radio (in/around Melbourne) and stream the show online (all over the world).
Classically Kids EVERY Saturday from 8am – 9am on 3MBS 103.5 FM, with Jacqui and Adam
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ABC Keys to Music – listen to a 4-part series of audio podcasts from May 2009. Richard Gill and Graham Abbott discuss the importance of quality school Music Education for all Australian children.
(Scroll down the webpage to the heading “Music Education Series”)
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...ACO Matinee Concerts for Secondary Students Two performances exclusively for secondary school students, led by Richard Tognetti Artistic Director & Lead Violin, Australian Chamber Orchestra and presented by Francis Merson, Limelight Magazine. MOZART Symphony K196/121, "La finta giardiniera" MEALE Cantilena Pacifica SCHUBERT (arr. Tognetti) String Quartet No.14, "Death and the Maiden" *Fri 8 Jun 12pm-1.30pm Sydney - City Recital Hall Angel Place *Tue 19 Jun 11am-12.30pm Melbourne – Melbourne Recital Centre Tickets $20. Teachers can book online www.aco.com.au/Default.aspx?url=/matinee or phone 1800 444 444. During these interactive concerts, students listen for key elements in the music, while learning about performance and ensemble techniques. A broad range of repertoire encompassing Mozart, Schubert and the contemporary Australian composer Richard Meale covers key aspects of the NSW & VIC music curricula. Specially tailored Teacher Resources are provided with each booking, providing students with additional insights into the repertoire. Resources include state-based curriculum notes and exercises, recordings and scores. Concerts are tailored to the music curriculum for stages 4 and 5 for New South Wales and levels 5, 6 and VCE for Victoria.
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Thurs 2 Aug
Students sit within metres of the musicians while they rehearse, getting a behind-the-scenes look at how the Orchestra prepares for concerts. After the rehearsal, students are invited to meet the ACO players. Register your students.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Above are the links to the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s FREE teaching notes and lesson ideas for their 2012 Tour 2 (TWO). Lesson content is designed for Secondary students.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Go to resource: The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (ASO) is a professional orchestra, resident in South Australia.
Their education programs include open rehearsals, school student concerts, in-schools performances, and composition competitions.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... ArtPlay is an arts centre in Melbourne that provides school and holiday programs for children and youth. Some of these programs are focused on music and each program is linked to the Victorian curriculum. The site also contains links to bookings and advocacy about the value of the arts in education.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... ArtsAlive.ca – US website with lots of free lesson plans, recordings and interactive Music websites
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Australian artists: Alan Vivian, Andy Firth, Barega Saxophone Quartet, Barry Cockcroft, Christina Leonard, Clarion214, Clarity, Continuum Sax, David Griffiths, David Thomas, Floyd Williams, Heather Monkhouse, Irit Silver, Jabra Latham, James Nightingale, Jess Voigt, Joseph Lallo, Katia Beaugeais, Lawrence Dobell, Margery Smith, Martin Kay, Matthew Styles, Michael Duke, Nicholas Russoniello, Peter Jenkin, Philip Arkinstall, Richard Haynes, Robert Schubert, Ros Dunlop & Sue Newsome.
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Our program song has been recorded and is now up on the website for your listening pleasure. There are already 500 schools registered to take part in this year’s program which will unite more than half a million students in the performance of ‘We’ve Got The Music’ on Thursday, 1st September at 11.30am. Don’t forget participation in the program is FREE. The audio files, arrangements, lyric sheet and classroom activity kit: it’s all downloadable once you register your school.
So listen to the song, register now and get your school community on board!
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... HERE is the Australian Art Orchestra’s free listening room where you can listening to recordings of their work. Many are fused with indigenous or multi-cultural music.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...The Australian Youth Band is entering an exciting new phase, with the establishment of a junior ensemble for young musicians aged 12 -15. Players of brass, woodwind and percussion instruments who have a minimum musical standard of AMEB Grade 2 are encouraged to audition.
Junior Band (JAYB) musicians will have the opportunity to progress through to the Senior Band with the added attraction of international concert tours.
To book an audition time, please contact the band’s Musical Director on 0402-912-772 or music.director@ayb.org.au
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Ben Northey is the conductor clinician for a seminar, master class and video workshop for school band directors. We are proud to be able to celebrate Ben’s appointment as Associate Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. This special event is presented by The Grainger Wind Symphony in partnership with the Australian Band and Orchestra Directors Association (Victoria branch). Ben’s services is provided by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the event is assisted with sponsorship from Allans Music + Billy Hydes.
On Wednesday 8 June, at 5.30pm the public Seminar has Ben talking and answering questions about Exploring the Art of Conducting. At 6.30pm, the full participants have a public Conducting Master Class with Ben as clinician but without piano or any instrumentalists. At 7.30pm finger food is provides free. From 8.30pm each full participant in turn conducts The Grainger Wind Symphony in a public Video Workshop with maestro Northey as clinician.
All three sessions are open to the public. You are all encouraged to come to congratulate Ben for his appointment and learn from his experiences in music and conducting from his youth in Ballarat to his studies at University of Melbourne with John Hopkins and at the Sibelius Academy in Finland. Entry fee includes membership of the Australian Band and Orchestra Directors Association (Victoria). Apply to come by the due date so catering can be arranged for you
Full participants will conduct in the one hour Master Class a concert band work of their choice, and conduct the same in front of The Grainger Wind Symphony with about 12 minutes of podium time. There is a strict limit of 8 full participants. The first eight places will go to the suitable applicants who pay their fee first. Applications for full participants will close on Friday 1 June.
The venue is the De Young Performing Arts Centre at Carey Baptist Grammar School, 349 Barkers Road, Kew.
Application form, fees and more information can be download from the GWS website, www.graingerwindsymphony.asn.au.
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www.classicalarchives.com/feature/dont_miss_this.html
This is great fun … On May 2, 2011, the Copenhagen Philharmonic amazed commuters at the Copenhagen Central Train Station, as they created a kind of orchestral “flash mob” – performing Ravel’s famed Bolero, with the musicians gradually assembling in place as the work progresses. The video – which shows not only the assembling orchestra, but also the delighted faces of the commuters – has generated overwhelming interest, and indeed has exceeded the orchestra’s expectations.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...A joint workshop between the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School for players of all brass instruments from later primary to VCE level.
Directed by Charles MacInnes (Convenor of Brass, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music), participants will have the chance to be part of a group warm up, learn about brass playing techniques, participate in or observe a performance workshop, as well as take part in a large brass ensemble.
This workshop is open to all school-aged brass students (year 5 upwards) of all ages and levels of experience
WHEN: Saturday 23 July, 10:00am – 4:00pm
WHERE: VCASS, 57 Miles Street, Southbank
HOW MUCH: $40 per participant / $20 per observer (teacher)
MORE INFORMATION AND ENROLMENTS: http://www.conservatorium.unimelb.edu.au/programs/short/brass
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Go to resource: ChordBook.com is an interactive virtual online guitar.
The site features over 1300 guitar chords and inversions, guitar scales and a guitar tuner.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Aston String Quartet plays a ‘classical interpretation’ of a Cold Play song
Play it to any age-group 
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... http://www.classicsforkids.com/activitysheets/
Dozens of free, colourful worksheets on well-known Classical / Romantic / 20th century works. Most include pictorial listening guides.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...String ensembles and Choir ensembles for all students aged 8 – 13.
All standards are welcome! Tuition by professional musicians!
Dates: Friday 9 – Sunday 11
December, 2011
Venue: Collingwood College
Corner of Cromwell St
& McCutcheon Way
Collingwood VIC 3067
Participation Fee: $80
Schedule:
Friday 9 December Rehearsal: 4:00pm – 6:30pm
Saturday 10 December Rehearsals and Tutorials: 9:00am – 4:00pm
Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea will be provided
Sunday 11 December Rehearsals and Tutorials: 9:00am –12:00pm
Final Concert: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Barbeque: 2:00pm
Applications forms are available from Collingwood College
Closing date for applications is 30 November 2011
For more information, please contact Jenny Occleshaw on (03) 9417 6681
jenny_occleshaw@yahoo.com
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Use the 3 main notes from the chorus of this year’s MUSIC: COUNT US IN program song “We’ve Got the Music” to create a 3-tone drum melody.
(1) Group your classroom drums or classroom percussion or junk percussion into three different groups (high, middle and low)
(2) Allocate the lowest drums to B-flat, the middle drums to C and the highest drums to E-flat.
(3) Re-create the chorus melody on 3 different drums: “Get on your feet, feel your heartbeat, we’ve got the music. We’re not too proud to sing it out loud, we’re not afraid to use it.”
Try the activity aurally, playing along with the MP3 found at www.musiccountusin.org.au
(4) Write the drum tune on the board using letters: L = low drums, M = medium drums, H = high drums
LM LM L MM M M M LH M
ML M M ML LM M MMMM LH M
(5) If your school has signed up for “Music: Count Us In”, then you can access the free backing-track (‘For Teachers’ section) and play the drum melody along with the chorus.
This lesson was inspired by “Izo Beat” from Islington Public School
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Go to resource: Creating Instruments at Satisfied Mind (USA) is a site that provides instructions on how to make various instruments.
These include the homemade banjo, bass, dulcimer, drum, dancing lumberjack, rainstick, and thumb piano. The site was created by Carol Raedy, a music educator.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... An instructional video on playing orchestral excerpts on Double Bass, as performed by Hal Robinson.
The visual quality is very raw, but the Double Bass sound is amazing.
A good video to show Middle School students who are studying instruments of the orchestra.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...This free website from Melbourne Symphony Orchestra offers and interactive tour of the orchestra, using Stuart Greenbaum’s score “90 minutes”.
Explore the orchestra, the conductor, the score and the composer – a lesson or two worth of content – let your students explore and arrange the score.
WARNING: Won’t work on Mac computers
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...2 hours of Marimba, wacky instruments and echo-cello playing: 20 November @ 2pm – 4pm @ Research, Vic
www.vosa.org/events/?action=detailed&ID=183
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...http://www.alfred.com/SC/BandResources.aspx
Free fingering charts for band instruments are found here.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Three upcoming free concerts that may be of interest for your staff and students:
Friday 25 May, 11:00am
Brass and Strings Ensemble Concert
Ideal for: Years 7 – 12
Duration: approx 70 minutes
Venue: Melba Hall, Royal Parade, Parkville
More information: http://www.conservatorium.unimelb.edu.au/events?id=365
Saturday 26 May, 7:30pm
Wind Symphony and String Ensemble Concert
Ideal for: Years 5 – 12
Duration: approx 75 minutes
Venue: BMW Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne
More information: http://www.conservatorium.unimelb.edu.au/events?id=363
Monday 28 May, 2:00pm
Percussion Ensembles Concert
Ideal for: Years 5 – 12
Duration: 50 minutes
Venue: Victorian College of the Arts, Southbank
More information: http://www.conservatorium.unimelb.edu.au/events?id=359
Bookings for the Friday and Monday concerts can be made through Anastasia – email rua@unimelb.edu.au or phone 03 8344 3673.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...www.mtrs.co.uk/subscriptions/KS4.html
Lots of units of work (including audio tracks) for studying many topics, including film music with Year 7-8… 20th century composition with Year 11-12 … using GarageBand … atonal music … much more (free!)
Thanks to MTRS in UK for sharing
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Click here to download FREE teaching kits for teaching pop music to Middle School students – using the Musical Futures approach. Handouts include song lyrics, keyboard chord fingerings & guitar chord fingerings.
Thanks to Coombeshead Academy for sharing their resources freely
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...FunMusicCo has provided us (free) with a weekly practice chart and printable sticker sheet to inspire students to practise this term
click here for free resource link
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...There’s a wacky, catchy kids song on YouTube – in English, he is “Gummy Bear” … in French he is “Funny Bear”. The first half of the song is in C major, and the melody uses A, C, D & E, so it suits glockenspiels or beginner keyboards.
Lesson idea: Practise alternate hand slapping on thighs: 6 taps starting on left … short rest … 6 taps starting on left … 14 taps starting on right. Play the YouTube clip to Middle School students. Get the kids singing the chorus. Add in the ‘hand slapping on thighs’ pattern during the chorus (it fits with the chorus rhythm). Ask students to figure out the melody, which starts on A.
Extension: see if students can alternate their glockenspiel mallet hands (as per the hand slapping warm-up).
Melody: A A A C A A – - A A A C E E – - E E E D D D D D D D E D C A – -
Further extension: Write the chorus melody on the board as a row of quavers and quaver rests. Ask students to help put in the bar-lines and time signature.
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www.essential-music-practice.com/learning-new-pieces.html
This website offers some free games for inspiring multiple repetitions when learning new pieces. Other parts of the webpage offer advice re. practising an instrument at home.
HERE is a free e-book re. how to practice.
The author has also written a book (for purchase).
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Great fun for Middle School aged students with glockenspiels (or keyboards) … view it here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXPrUkjENrQ (recorder)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH8Fb1kKsGM (glockenspiel)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBF-_WMY8HU (crockenspiel)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=26ho9yEAOrI (gameboy)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYabXLTDSxw (ocarina)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjxQARym4DQ (zither)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmG34QB07Bc (mobile phone)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpg2k2C103k (squeakaphone)
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Go to resource: Goran Bregovic – Tales & Songs for Weddings & Funerals education kit is provided through the Melbourne International Arts Festival site, and was performed at the festival in 2008. The kit, written by David Perry, is linked to the Victorian curriculum and provides activities about Balkan music, music-making, and creating. More kits are available through the Melbourne International Arts Festival website.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Watch the Gruffalo film on YouTube (about 30 minutes long).
Discuss (or ask students to take notes on) the music which accompanies each new character. Discuss what instruments are used to make the audience feel scared or wary. Brainstorm the ways in which music has been used to turn a 5 minute picture-story book into a 30 minute film.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...free lesson plan on Guitar chord families http://www.lessontutor.com/ees_guitar1.html
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Go to resource: Happy Anniversary! Middle Schools Concerts Education Kit (from The Queensland Orchestra) is a kits on the music of three composers celebrating anniversaries in 2009: Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn.
The kit contains information about the composers, the works performed, history, analysis, and further activities.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Go to resource: Haunting Music (ArtsEdge USA) is a six-lesson unit that focuses on program music through exploration of ’spooky’ orchestral works by Berlioz and Saint-Saens.The unit is published and written by ArtsEdge, the Kennedy Center, USA. The lessons include analysis of musical works, storywriting, and creating a class mural. The unit is recommended for Grades 4 to 7 (USA).
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...‘Hearts in Harmony’ – a ‘fun’tastic community music day for all ages at ACU in Fitzroy, presented by the School of Education, Australian Catholic University (ACU).
This day is open to all ages, backgrounds and abilities – no musical experience is required. Join Jon Madin, Geelong’s local teacher/composer/instrument inventor and play some of his wonderful and wacky instruments such as marimbas, echo cellos, shaker rings and musical bikes.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Indigenous Musicians get to POP!
Thanks to funding received through Arts Victoria’s Community Partnerships, Cultural Infusion is proud to present I.P.O.P. (Indigenous People Out Performing). An exciting new initiative for Melbourne’s emerging Indigenous musicians there will be three sets of workshops delivered during this year focusing on exciting public outcomes.
Up and coming Indigenous musicians who are selected for the program will be given a special opportunity to explore their creative ideas and develop them into polished, recordable tracks. Participants are encouraged to make the most of the free recording sessions and performance opportunities, where they will be able to showcase their song to a wider audience. Guiding them through musical elements ranging from song writing, music production to performance skills is acclaimed Indigenous musician, Joe Geia.
Joe Geia is a renowned singer-songwriter who composed the iconic album Yil Lull from which songs have been re-recorded by the likes of Paul Kelly, Archie Roach and Jimmy Barnes. Hailing from North Queensland, Geia is of Murri Aboriginal heritage. His first album Yil Lull, released in 1988, received widespread critical acclaim and speaks volumes on our national identity.
Places in these workshop series are based on the merit of applicants. Applications are still open for the next series of workshops starting Tuesday 17th May 2011 from 6pm – 8pm. These workshops are running with the support of The Gathering Place in Maribrynong and will be delivered at the phoenix youth Centre in Footscray with the final performance being part of the Indigenous Youth Forum at The Gathering Place on the 24th June.
For more information and an application form please:
Email: info@culturalinfusion.org.au
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Go to resource: Instrument Bingo, written by Cheryl Lavender and published by Jenson Publications, combines musical knowledge with the game of bingo. The text comes with a CD.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Go to resource: Instrumental Music Teaching Resource was written by Amanda R Watson and published by the Australian Society for Music Education.
This is a CD-Rom developed for instrumental teachers and peripatetic teachers working in schools. Contains Curriculum Support Materials that can be used with any instrument.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Go to resource: Jozzbeat produces classroom Music, ensemble and percussion resources. Their ‘JellyBeans’ series features large format notation books for 4 part percussion (or IWB resource) with CD accompaniment tracks and lesson suggestions. Jozzbeat also offers Professional Development school workshops.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Kita Performing Arts Company is an ensemble based in Melbourne and operates throughout Victoria to present traditional and contemporary Asian music and dance. The company runs school programs suited to primary and secondary school students, and teachers notes about each of the presentations are available online. Workshops are also run for students and teachers that introduce Asian performing arts and provide activities for the classroom.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Experience and learn from the phenomenal and prodigious Lang Lang as he guides three talented young musicians during this one hour master class.
Information
Ideal for young pianists and elective music students.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Listen to the ABC podcast (listen here) of ‘Golden Fur’ – a Melbourne Trio playing “Parallel Collisions” at a live concert.
As the music is playing, ask students for suggestions re. what instruments are being played … and in what manner! There are many really unusual techniques employed in this piece.
Students with access to the internet can then create a Word or OneNote page with information on the trio ‘Golden Fur’ (use Google and www.goldenfur.com.au) and the way in which they play traditional instruments in a contemporary way.
Finally, create a group composition or soundscape which uses unusual techniques of playing classroom instruments. HAVE FUN!!
PS Feel free to record the class creation and email it to schools.mpfl@mca.org.au
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Introductory Keyboard Lesson for Middle School
Turn off the keyboards, and explain how to make a chord – play one, miss one, play one, miss one, play one. If a scale is like flowing water, then a chord is a block of ice!
Write up the chord progressions for The Beatles’ song “Let It Be” (which uses only C major, F major, G major and A minor).
Ask students to create chords (sound off!) with one or two hands. The teacher moves around the room, asking students to make the chords of C, F, G and A minor (explaining that the right hand thumb goes on the chord’s name) after which each student (int turn) may turn on the power and practise making chords (out loud this time).
Work through the chords of “Let It Be” as a class of keyboards, with the teacher singing (calling out chords) & playing piano / guitar to accompany.
Ask students to look for patterns in the chord progressions (ie. repeated lines and the fact that every phrases moves to G major in the 2nd chord), then memorise the song chords. Ask for a small group of students to test out their memory and play the whole song as a small ensemble.
To end the lesson, students might have a few free minutes to create their own chord progressions.
ENJOY!
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Have you signed up yet to be part of Making Music Being Well?
This national initiative, which takes place from 16 – 22 May, is a collaboration between Music: Play for Life and the Australian Music Therapy Association and it’s all about a grassroots celebration of the links between music making and wellbeing.
When you register to participate – it’s FREE – we’ll send you event posters, stickers and brochures and you’ll get access to lots of downloadable resources including event planning and promotional tips. How you participate is up to you.
The best way to be involved is to take something you may already have planned for that week and hitch it to the national wagon of Making Music Being Well 2011. You don’t have to do something on every day during the week – one event is enough. Your event will be outlined on the MMBW website and you and your group members or students will be helping to shine the national spotlight on an important fact: music is good for you!
Here are a few ideas based on previous years: Open the doors to the community for your rehearsal that falls within the MMBW week and turn it into a free performance. Take your choir or group to a nursing home, hospital or school. Organise a big sing at your workplace. Turn a school assembly into a musical celebration and tell students and parents about the value and benefits of making music. Convene a drum circle in your school playground. Run an open mic session at your local pub or club. Organise a gathering of community music leaders and organisers in your area and discuss how you could pool resources and share skills.
Register to be part of it at www.makingmusicbeingwell.org.au
AND … don’t forget – registration for our biggest school music initiative, Music: Count Us In, opens soon too!
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...This national initiative, which takes place from 16 – 22 May, is a collaboration between
Music: Play for Life and the Australian Music Therapy Association and it’s all about a grassroots celebration of the links between music making and wellbeing.
When you register to participate – it’s FREE – we’ll send you event posters, stickers and brochures and you’ll get access to lots of downloadable resources including event planning and promotional tips.
How you participate is up to you. The best way to be involved is to take something you may already have planned for that week and hitch it to the national wagon of Making Music Being Well 2011. You don’t have to do something on every day during the week – one event is enough. Your event will be outlined on the MMBW website and you and your group members or students will be helping to shine the national spotlight on an important fact: music is good for you!
Here are a few ideas based on previous years:
Register to be part of it at www.makingmusicbeingwell.org.au
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Teach the chorus melody of Mamma Mia using letter names, or the numbers:
21 21 112321 2 1 4 444 3 1
Put the melody onto keyboards (using finger numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4) or glockenspiels (C, D, E and F)
Talk about the relationship between numbers and pitch names
Play with a recording of Mamma Mia, transposed down into C major (using digital music editing software such as Audacity, Reaper or GarageBand)
Try to sing and play at the same time!
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Marimba Music Making WITH JON MADIN
Date Thursday 2 June 2011
Time 9.30am – 3.30pm
Venue 150 Palmerston Street, CARLTON
Cost $130 members/$190 non-members
An amazing smorgasbord of ideas for hands-on music making using marimbas and many other Jon Madin’s ingeniously created instruments. Suitable for any primary or lower secondary music teaching environment. Would be suitable for primary generalists. You will go away with a wealth of repertoire and activity ideas.
About Jon
Jon Madin is a trained classroom music teacher with a background in a wide variety of music-making. His experience includes playing in folk/rock bands, multi-cultural bands, orchestra and early music consorts. He also leads family music workshops and bush dances.
He has also worked extensively in musical instrument design – marimbas in particular, as well as many other experimental musical instruments.
For further information about Jon Madin, check out the Marimba Music website: www.marimbamusic.com.au
ENQUIRIES
Kevin Kelley
Executive Officer
Association of Music Educators (Vic) Inc
150 Palmerston Street
CARLTON Victoria 3053
Phone 03 9349 1048
Fax 03 9349 1052
kevin.kelley@amuse.vic.edu.au
www.amuse.vic.edu.au
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Medea: Sasha Waltz and guests was a work performed at the 2009 Melbourne International Arts Festival. The education kit for this, compiled by David Perry, is linked to the Victorian curriculum. Music activities within the kit include a comparative musical analysis and a choral exploration. More kits are available through the Melbourne International Arts Festival website.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...This June the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will open the doors of the Melbourne Town Hall to over 10,000 school students, parents and teachers for the Orchestra’s Education Week – a week solely dedicated to sharing the joy of music-making through the first-hand experience of live orchestral music.
Across five days, the Orchestra will present 13 concerts for audiences of all ages, including a full spectrum of interactive and educational concerts for school students. From Classic Kids with best-selling children’s entertainer and movie star, Jay Laga’aia, right through to Ears Wide Open with eminent Music Educator, Richard Gill, there really is something for everyone.
Following his innovative concert presentations with the MSO in 2011, UK music educator, Paul Rissmann, will return to Melbourne to host Meet the Orchestra and Meet the Music, two stimulating age-specific programs which offer insight into great orchestral repertoire. Paul has devised and led projects for the BBC Proms, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, and the London Symphony Orchestra.
Conducted by the MSO’s Associate Conductor, Benjamin Northey, Meet the Music, for secondary school students, will dissect some of the biggest symphonic scandals in history. It will also feature the 2011 ABC Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year, saxophonist, Nicholas Russoniello, who will be appearing with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for the very first time.
Meet the Orchestra, for primary school students, will feature works themed around musical ‘Heroes and Rogues’ and include another of Paul’s signature audience participation pieces (for many, a highlight of last year’s program).
Comprehensive teaching resources have been created for Meet the Orchestra and Meet the Music, and are available for download on the MSO website. Additionally, primary school teachers booking into Meet the Orchestra are invited to join Paul Rissmann for a day of Professional Development – specially created to cater for primary school music teachers and generalist teachers with limited musical knowledge – on Friday 1 June 2012. Bookings for this VIT-registered PD can be made by calling 03 9626 1198.
Concert tickets for students are available for as little as $10 ($8 for Classic Kids) and teachers attend all Education Week concerts for free. For more information, please phone the MSO Education Department on 9626 1198 or visit www.mso.com.au and follow the tabs to Education Week.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...The inaugural Melbourne Conservatorium Guitar Day is open to secondary school students.
Featuring:
This is a day not to be missed for the serious guitar student!
WHEN: Saturday 18 June, 2:00pm – 7:30pm (twilight concert commences at 6:30)
WHERE: Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, Gate 12, Royal Parade, The University of Melbourne VIC 3010
HOW MUCH: $40 per student (teachers $20 to observe)
PRE-REQUISITES: AMEB Grade 4 standard or above (or equivalent). Music reading ability essential.
INFORMATION & ENROLMENTS: http://www.conservatorium.unimelb.edu.au/programs/youth/guitar
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Go to resource: The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) is a professional orchestra and offers education programs to schools. Their site has an education portal to their activities including school programs (for all stages), conducting workshops, artists in schools, teacher resources, work experience, and professional learning. Teachers and schools can register to gain relevant education kits for specific MSO concerts.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra offers a spectrum of concerts for school students, designed to inspire active participation in music. All the information is now available on the MSO’s website, along with downloadable booking forms and the 2012 concert diary; schools will also receive a MSO Education and Community Outreach brochure at the start of Term 1, 2012. If you have further questions please contact 03 9626 1198, or email education@mso.com.au
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Go to resource: Melbourne Youth Music (MYM) offers programs and performances to children and young people. The organisation is supported by the Victorian Dept of Education and Early Childhood Development. Their activities include workshops, summer schools, weekend tuition, and they run a number of classical ensembles for youth.
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http://soundhouse.org.au/packagepop/subscribe.pdf
SoundHouse is an Australian resource-writer, student workshop and Professional Development provider, specialising in multi-media.
The above link will give you more information about on-line resources to help teach classroom guitar, percussion/drum, keyboard and practical theory ($199 per year) or email info@soundhouse.org.au
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...CHAMBER MUSIC COMPETITION:
The Musical Society of Victoria will hold a Chamber Music competitions for instrumental groups of up to six people on Sunday May 20th at Ewing Memorial Uniting Church, EAST MALVERN at 2.30 p.m.
Entries close on May 4th. Further details are available on our website: www.msv.org.au under AWARDS/Chamber Music.
Or contact the General Secretary on 03 9509 7767
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Go to resource: Multicultural Perspectives in Music is a NSW Department of Education and Training site, and a collaboration between the NSW Creative Arts Unit, Musica Viva Australia, and Sirocco. The site is part of a project that was a partnership between the NSW Curriculum K-12 Directorate and the Multicultural Programs Unit. The site contains links to articles, classroom activities, audio and visual examples, and links to other related sites about multicultural music.
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The 2011 (free) Teaching Kit for “We’ve Got the Music” just went online. It features free lesson ideas and teaching resources for Primary and Middle School classes, as well as brilliant ideas for inclusion and special needs. It is designed for generalist classroom teachers and music teachers alike.
All feedback welcome. Bring on 1st September 2011!!
If you haven’t signed up, please do, then you’ll be able to view the Teaching Kit.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Watch this space – the teaching kit for Music Count Us In 2011 is coming soon. It’s full of free ideas to enhance music education delivery in your school, including cross-curricular lesson ideas. Many free ensemble charts are already on the website www.musiccountusin.org.au . Don’t be scared of signing up – it’s really easy!
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Read this article about how Drumskool in the UK (ages 5-18) is even reducing crime.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...The Centre for Music, Mind and Wellbeing at the University of Melbourne, in association with the Melbourne Recital Centre take great pleasure in inviting you to the launch of the Music on the Mind series at the Melbourne Recital Centre.
Professor Gary McPherson, Ormond Professor and Director of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, studies giftedness: the characteristics and development of people who have an unusually high potential for greatness. Tiffany Poon, a 14-year-old piano prodigy, clearly possesses that qualification. A student at the prestigious Juilliard School in New York, Tiffany already participates in an active recital schedule, displaying extraordinary artistry, musical maturity, and a rich love for playing the piano. Professor McPherson, working with Tiffany’s family, has observed Tiffany’s growth as a musician over her lifetime. In his pre-concert introduction Professor McPherson will talk about giftedness and traits of child prodigies, including current research in this field, before Tiffany steps to the piano to share her talent in a piano recital that includes repertoire by Beethoven, Chopin, Ravel and Liszt that will leave the audience spellbound (see www.tiffanypoon.com).
When: Tuesday 19 July 2011, 7.30pm
Venue: Elisabeth Murdoch Hall
Melbourne Recital Centre
Cnr of Soutbank Blvd and Sturt St
Southbank
Tickets: $25 / $15 concession www.melbournerecital.com.au or call 03 9699 3333
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...MusicTime! Great Classroom Ideas for Years 5 – 8
Presented by Dr Ros McMillan
Want to finish Semester 1 fired with enthusiasm for Term 3? This workshop, designed for teachers of students in Years 5 – 8, will provide participants with a wealth of ideas for units of work as well as one-off activities that will appeal to students from upper primary to junior secondary.
This is not an easy group to cater for as many Year 7s will experience music for the first – and last! – time in their lives in this school year, while Year 8 students can be one of the most difficult age-groups to engage in music-making of any kind. Upper primary school students, too, are not always the amenable students of earlier years, with most of them having strong views on what makes music as a school subject ‘good’.
Thus, Year 5 – 8 teachers face the difficult task of planning a curriculum that is enjoyable and relevant for their students as well as fulfilling to teach. At the same time they may be required to provide music classes for a one-year, or even one-semester, subject that their school administration believes is all that students need to continue the study of music in later school years.
Working with typical classroom resources, participants at this workshop will be assisted to plan stimulating and rewarding lessons for students of all abilities. Through a variety of hands-on activities, teachers will be shown how to fulfil the requirements of the new Australian Curriculum, one in which a rich, creative and coherent curriculum is at the centre.
COST
$130.00 (members)
$190.00 (non-members)
DATE
Friday 24 June
TIME
9.30am – 3.30pm
VENUE
Statewide Resources Centre
150 Palmerston Street, Carlton
Melway reference — Map 2B:H6
Booking essential
Lunch is provided
http://amuse.vic.edu.au/2011_PL/ros_mcmillan.htm
Ros McMillan has been teaching and researching music education for almost 50 years, including 20 years at the University of Melbourne where she was Senior Lecturer then Head of Music Education, and 13 years as Director of Music at the PresbyterianLadies’ College, Melbourne. For the last decade she has been writing music workbooks for teachers and students with over 10,000 students using her books. Ros is a keyboard player, specialising in improvisation.
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This year’s program song is about to hit the air-waves. Registration is being accepted by schools for the 2011 massed singing event on September 1st, 2011 @ 11.30am (AEST).
Associated free lesson plans, teaching kits, free MP3, sheet music, and instrumental arrangements will soon be available via the website.
Signing up via the website is free and easy!! http://www.musiccountusin.org.au/
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...www.musicalfutures.org.uk Musical Futures is a fairly new approach to teaching instrumental music to Middle School students. This website gives you pedagogy ideas, background info, repertoire suggestions (including lyrics and tab), marking criteria, powerpoint presentations to show students about the process of rehearsing, etc. The basic idea is to create class “rock bands” and encourage students to teach / assist each other with a common goal – making contemporary music.
Here are some examples of the free resources shared by teachers who engage in Musical Futures programs:
Let It Be – includes marking / achievement checklist
Scouting for Girls – This ain’t a love song …
Scouting for Girls – She’s so Lovely
Beat It
Beat It with tab
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...http://www.musicalfutures.org.uk/resource/27646
Half of the students who took part in Musical Futures agreed that they felt better about school as a result. Read more on the above link.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Lesson Idea: In the spirit of “Musical Futures”, give your students access to the MP3 of “We’ve Got the Music” … divide them into groups of 4-6 with drums / guitars / keyboards / ukuleles / percussion, etc … ask them to come up with their OWN version of “We’ve Got the Music” (about 30 mins) simply by using their ears, playing along with the MP3, experimenting and supporting each other … share their performance attempt with the class.
The key factor is that the student performance SHOULD sound different from the original MP3, reflecting the group’s creative interpretation.
“We’ve Got the Music” is the 2011 program song for MUSIC: COUNT US IN
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...www.musicatschool.co.uk is a free website of Secondary Music teaching ideas, lesson plans and worksheets from UK Music teachers.
For example, here is a worksheet for Year 7’s learning about how orchestral players are seated:
http://www.musicatschool.co.uk/year_7/Instruments_sheets/layout_worksheet.PDF
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... MusicPlay – a website presenting general knowledge of instruments of the orchestra, with online quizzes.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Melbourne Youth Music’s 2012 Summer School, running from Monday 16 – Saturday 21 January at the Victorian College of the Arts, offers four separate bands, conducted by Monte Mumford, Stephen Hardie, Amy Wert and Tanya Bethune. Join Summer School Artistic Director Andrew Mott for an intensive week of exciting music, new friends and great fun! We still have vacancies in all bands, particularly bassoons and low brass. For more info: www.mym.org.au or phone 03 9376 8988.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Melbourne Youth Music is currently calling for expressions of interest from school and community ensembles who wish to be considered for inclusion in MYM’s 2012 Bands Festival. The MYM Bands Festival began in 2005 and has since then grown to become one of the premier performance opportunities for bands in Melbourne. The Festival is a non-competitive and non-graded event designed to celebrate banding in Melbourne with concert bands, jazz ensembles and also brass bands of all standards encouraged to perform. During the course of each festival we welcome more than 600 performers on stage from across Regional and Metropolitan Victoria. One of the best parts of this event is seeing students and teaching colleagues observe and support each other so attentively in rehearsal and performance.
In 2012, the MYM Bands Festival will again be held at the spectacular BMW Edge Federation Square, and is proudly presented by MYM in partnership with Fed Ed!, Federation Square’s Education Program. For those who have taken part before, please note that due to availability of venue, the festival has moved one week later to fall on the first weekend in June.
2012 MYM Bands Festival Performances:
CONCERT 1 | Saturday 2 June, 1:00pm
CONCERT 2 | Saturday 2 June, 7:00pm
CONCERT 3 | Sunday 3 June, 12:00pm
CONCERT 4 | Sunday 3 June, 5:00pm
Each concert has a duration of 2 hours and will feature four bands.
Participation is free – if you would like to take part, please email MYM as soon as possible with some brief details of your band along with any special requirements you may have. For ease of scheduling, please indicate a 1st and 2nd preference for concert performance dates and times from the information provided. Once groups are finalised, they will issue a draft schedule for the festival which will allow each ensemble a 20 minute sound check ahead of their allocated performance. Please be aware that each ensemble will need to provide at least one stage hand to setup the stage for their requirements, who will be assisted by a member of MYM staff. Bands should provide their own transport to / from the venue as well as arrange for any supervision of ensemble members where required. Each guest ensemble will be invited to prepare 20 minutes of repertoire as well as present a spoken introduction to their program. Tickets for friends and family to attend concerts will be on sale from four weeks prior to the festival through MYM’s box office.
Melbourne Youth Music
T: 03 9376 8988
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... The National Folk Festival (Australia) is developing educational resources. These include a free CD of 2009 festival highlights & IWB resources about the fiddle.
http://forteachersforstudents.com.au/NFF/
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Go to resource: The New York Philharmonic Orchestra Interactive Kid’s Site offers interactive online music games about orchestral instruments, composition, composers, musicians, and conductors.
There are also links to interesting pages with information about orchestral instruments and concepts.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... http://australianmusiceducators.ning.com/ is an Australian discussion forum for music educators. It was set up with the intent of discussing ideas on classroom band programs, but it really is a forum for discussion on any aspect of Australian music teaching from P-12. At present there is a small group of members, but I am hoping to build it up and draw on a wide range of professional knowledge and experience.
This group is completely FREE (in a monetary sense, not a moral or metaphysical sense).
Please come along and check it out. The page is run as a ning, which is basically a social network with a particular focus. It is great for online discussion, linking of video and photo and has facility for you to blog. All you need to do is create an account.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Go to resource: The Northern Tour Education Kit (by The Queensland Orchestra) is a kit that supports the 2009 concerts ‘Words and Music’ and examines what music conveys (stories, emotions etc).
Composers covered in the kit include Brahms, Smetana, Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Beethoven, Saint-Saens, Young, and Khachaturian.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Watch a demonstration of what O-Generator offers re. teaching world music rhythms on percussion.
http://www.o-music.tv/wm_play_video.htm
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... OddMusic – A free online resource about unusual music instruments. Read about them, view pictures/videos and listen.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Orchestra Victoria is thrilled to announce that we will be holding eight Education Workshops for music students in regional and peri-urban Victoria this year.
EDUCATION WORKSHOPS FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS:
2012
Maryborough: 6 – 7 June
Shepparton: 7 – 8 June
Swan Hill: 14 – 14 June
Hamilton: 18 – 19 July
Mornington: 25 – 16 July
Werribee: 31 July – 1 August
Sale: 9 – 10 August
Bendigo: 24 -25 October
End of Year Concert Hamer Hall Arts Centre Melbourne: 1 December
For details on how to apply please contact:
Joël Murray, Education Development Manager, or
Megan Dennis, Education & Community Coordinator (Monday & Tuesday)
9694 3600 or info@orchestravictoria.com.au <mailto:info@orchestravictoria.com.au>
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Go to resource: Orchestra Victoria offers education programs for teachers and students. Professional development for teachers includes ensemble/conducting workshops and observation of orchestral rehearsals. Student workshops are offered in regional Victorian areas to secondary students who play orchestral instruments.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Go to resource: The Orff Schulwerk Association of South Australia is a non-profit organisation that supports teachers in music education, and is the SA branch of the national association for Schulwerk methodology.Their site has links to details about membership, upcoming conferences and workshops, and marimba hiring information.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... A free resource booklet (online) to accompany “Peter and the Wolf” – a puppet animation of the famous Prokofiev work. The original music was written over 100 years ago to inspire school students to enjoy music!
Online game – match the music themes to their animated characters.
Link to the animated movie website
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Pure Drop – high quality audio and video footage (free) from the ABC & AFC & Federal Government, complete with free lesson plans and worksheets. Topics include Indigenous Music and World Music
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...2nd Peninsula Winter Music School
A three day music program run by the Peninsula Youth Music Society. School aged and tertiary students will have the opportunity perform as part of an orchestra or be involved in music theatre or participate in the Big Band. Highly experienced musicians have been engaged to work with participants of the Winter Music School. The Ingrid Martin Orchestra for string, woodwind, brass and percussion instrumentalists will rehearse as a full ensemble and also be involved in wind, string and brass tutorials.
Tutors Dr Ingrid Martin and Michael Dahlenburg. The Royal Music Theatre group is for singers, dancers and actors. Tutors Monica Royal and Harlene Hercules. The members of this group will learn works from musicals and receive vocal and dance tutorials. The Eric Budd Big Band is for students with some performance experience on either woodwind, brass, drum kit, guitar or keyboard. The band will perform works from the swing jazz era. Tutor Eric Budd
The Winter Music School will run from 4th to 6th July at Mt Erin Secondary College. For details and brochure ph.9782 2450 or 5975 8841 Or visit www.pyms.org.au to download a form.
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A computer game that lets you plug in a real guitar and it will teach you the songs it thinks you should know!
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...‘Saxophony’ – NSW, Australia – Saturday 11 June, 2011
This year the Darling Harbour Jazz Festival is attempting to break the world record for the largest saxophone ensemble ever with 900+ saxophones! They will be playing an arrangement of ‘Waltzing Matilda – Happy Birthday’ (as it’s the Festival’s 21st Birthday). Additionally JozzBeat has built interactive teaching tools for all of the performers so that they can learn their parts and play from memory on the day. It is being delivered online!
There is more info at www.darlingharbour.com/saxophony
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Hands-on learning about instruments of the orchestra, presented by San Francisco Symphony.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Sistema Australia – A school music education system based on a Venezuelan model. Currently being trialled in Laverton (VIC), the model involves instrumental learning and high-quality performances at school.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16794606
This BBC clip shows a speed-pianist playing 19 notes per second, and compares the concentration with Kung Fu!
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...www.funmusicco.com/squiltsheet.pdf
FunMusicCo has provided a free worksheet for use with ANY music listening activity.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...For fifty-one years STATE MUSIC CAMP has hosted an annual camp providing a classical music experience that is engaging, inspirational and enriching for young musicians. In 2012 the camp will be held between Monday, July 2 and Saturday, July 7, culminating with a concert on Saturday, July 7 at 7.30pm at Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University. Rehearsals for the camp will be held at Caulfield Grammar School, Wheelers Hill Campus, Jells Rd, Wheelers Hill.
The 2012 camp as it promises to be a challenging and enjoyable experience. They expect to have students from all over metropolitan Melbourne attending as well as musicians from country Victoria.
There will be two Symphony Orchestras and two String Orchestras involved that cater for students from the age of 6 through to 22.
This year the top orchestra will be performing Symphony No.5 by Shostakovich which is an exciting and challenging work for all instruments.
Please visit the website for more details, application forms and our 2012 brochure at www.statemusiccamp.com.au
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...This year the State Music Camp (Vic) is celebrating it’s 51st year.
We would like to invite young orchestral musicians from ages 6 – 22 to come and joining us in a great week of music making.
This year the top orchestra is performing the Symphony N.5 by Shostakovich. Please encourage your students to come and experience a wonderful week in terrific facilities, surroundings while working with some of Australias’ leading educators and musicians.
For more information visit our website at www.statemusiccamp.com.au or contact us at info@statemusiccamp.com.au
Also visit us at Youtube to see our orchestras in action from 2010 and 2011.
VENUE: Caulfield Grammar School
Wheelers Hill Campus
74 82 Jells Road
Wheelers Hill
WHEN: Monday July 2nd – Friday July 6th
9am
CONCERT: Saturday July 7th
Robert Blackwood Hall
Monash University
7.30 pm
WHAT: 4 Ensembles
2 Junior String Ensembles
2 Symphony Orchestras
CONDUCTORS: Bishop Orschestra – Mark Shiell (AMEB 7+)
Alexander Orchestra – Simon Brown (AMEB 5+)
Scott Orchestra – Micahel Dahlenberg AMEB Grade 4)
Thomson Orchestra – Cindy Watkin (AMEB prelim – Grade 2 – 4)
APPLICATIONS CLOSE: Monday May 21
AUDITIONS: Sunday May 27 @ Caulfield Grammar School
Wheelers Hill
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...http://www.sydneysymphony.com/education/schools/regional_tour/
Each year the Sydney Symphony travels to regional NSW bringing concerts and workshops to communities who are too far away to attend our Sydney Opera House performances. Our regional tour also includes special performances for school-aged audiences during the day and Professional Learning opportunities for teachers.
In 2012 the Syndey Symphony and Sinfonia are touring to GRAFTON, TAREE and NEWCASTLE from 29 May 29-1 June. For information and bookings download the form below or email education@sydneysymphony.com
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Go to resource: The Sydney Symphony Orchestra offers programs for school children, and provides in conjunction with these, resources for teachers. Past kits from previous Meet the Music series can be viewed online and requested from the SSO. The site also gives links to Meet the Music events and other educational events.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Go to resource: The Sydney Symphony Orchestra (SSO) is a professional orchestra, resident in New South Wales at the Sydney Opera House.
The SSO provides education programs including school concerts, links with orchestral players, and workshops for teachers. They also hold a number of education kits written for past and present SSO concerts.
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Go to resource: The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra (TSO) is a professional orchestra resident in Tasmania.
Amongst their events, they offer education programs including concerts for students, open rehearsals, conductor training workshops, and sessions for teachers.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Go to resource: The Arts Centre Melbourne provides education programs specifically for school students, including performances and workshops.Their school workshops include music technology training and activities are linked with the Victorian curriculum. Their site contains further information about activities and performance events.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... The Black Arm Band: Dirtsong was a work performed at the 2009 Melbourne International Arts Festival. There is a free Education kit available here. The second half of the activities are specifically Music-related, while the first half are Arts and literacy-related.The education kit was prepared by David Perry and is linked to the Victorian curriculum. It contains music activities centred around Indigenous and Australian pop songs, and also explores the didgeridoo. More kits are available through the Melbourne International Arts Festival website.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... The Black Arm Band: Hidden Republic was a work performed at the 2008 Melbourne International Arts Festival. This education kit on the Indigenous band has been prepared by Elizabeth Exintaris, and is linked to the Victorian curriculum. The music activities within this kit include the study of Indigenous music, music-making and creating, and analysis. More kits are available through the Melbourne International Arts Festival website.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...1. The Keys of Effective Practice
- Specifically for secondary school music students.
- Duration choice 60, 90 or 120 minutes, on site at your school.
- View the 5-minute introductory video http://www.screencast.com/t/oWMukBI5.
2. Study, Stress and Music
- Relevant for all secondary students, and staff.
- Duration 60 minutes, on site.
- View the 5-minute introductory video http://www.screencast.com/t/Hue7Du1e6b2.
Dates are limited: June 29, May 10, May 11 (2011) with Michael Griffin
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Go to resource: The Song Room offers music programs to school students, particularly those who have no access to music teachers, and disadvantaged students. Their aim is to create self-sustaining music programs in schools.Their programs include professional support for teachers, families, implementation of long term music programs in schools, partnerships with industry and community music groups, and research. Schools can become members of the Song Room and receive access to the website, resources, and training.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...1) “I’m going to play you a song about my weekend” …
2) Play (live or on YouTube or CD) ‘Hercules’ from the movie ‘Hunchback from Notre Dame’ … asking students to think about what it has to do with the weekend.
3) Afterwards, ask students if they’ve made any connection/s … hopefully they will offer up answers about watching Cadel Evans win the Tour de France (French bike race).
4) Help students to recall the lyrics, song moods, compositional tools, etc which relate to winning a big race.
5) In small groups, ask students to brainstorm other songs that could be used as background music for a ‘highlights segment’ on the 2011 Tour de France.
Resources: free video footage of Cadel Evans after his huge win http://player.sbs.com.au/cycling#/cycling_08/tourdefrance/tdf_interviews/playlist/Cadel-Evans-post-Stage-20/
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... There’s a new way to let students view YouTube clips online … www.viewpure.com. The teacher copies the URL address from a YouTube clip, pastes it onto the viewpure.com website, clicks “create”, and it creates a new webpage (which students can view) with the YouTube clip on its own (without ads or comments). Copy and paste the newly create URL address and give it to your students.
Here’s an example I entered into ViewPure of ACO playing to surfing footage …
http://viewpure.com/m0NJyVCQpIs
HINT: Don’t click on the “Download” button (bottom of ViewPure screen) – it is only advertising!
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Go to resource: Using Music in the Classroom, an article published on the site “Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age” gives resources and hints on incorporating songs with other subjects such as Maths. Links are given to online sources for further activities and songs.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...The renowned State Music Camp of Victoria turns 50.
For fifty years SMC has provided outstanding orchestral experiences for young musicians. The camp offers a rare learning opportunity for students to play music and be tutored by expert musicians and conductors.
Dates: 4 – 9 July (term 2 holidays) Saturday evening gala birthday concert
Rehearsal venue: Huntingtower School, Mt Waverley
Concert venue: Robert Blackwood Hall
We are also keen to hear from past campers who would like to perform in an orchestra as part of the 50-year celebration.
For details visit our website: http://www.statemusiccamp.com.au
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Virtual Museum – a factual and informative website (with pictures) about common & obscure musical instruments from around the world
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...VMTA (Victorian Music Teachers Assoc) Performance Awards – entries close Friday July 1, 2011. It’s a great opportunity to gain
performance experience and receive feedback.
Date: Sunday July 24
Venue: Richmond Uniting Church, 314 Church St, Richmond
The sections are:
Primary School Instrumental,
Secondary School Instrumental
(adjudicator: Peter Bandy)
Primary School Piano,
Secondary School Piano
(adjudicator: Janine Sowden)
Entries close Friday July 1.
The prizes in the piano section are named the ‘Patkin Piano Awards’, in
memory of VMTA’s late Vice-President, Nehama Patkin. These awards were a
great success in their inaugural year (last year), and we hope to make this
year even better!
For more information, please contact the VMTA office
Amy Spruce - Office Manager
Victorian Music Teachers’ Association Inc
C 1.4/1 St Heliers St Abbotsford Vic 3067
03 9415 1314
fx 03 9415 1014
vmta@vmta.org.au
www.victorianmusicteachersassociation.org.au
Office Hours: Mon, Wed, Fri 10-3, Thurs 11.30-3
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...VOSA will be holding the “Living Music and Dance Conference” on May 27 & 28 at the Darebin Arts Centre. This is a fantastic opportunity to attend a world class music education conference. Our key presenter Lenka Pospisilova is a world class International presenter specialising in the Orff method. Lenka returns to Melbourne having last presented in Adelaide, Australia at the National Orff Conference ‘Creating New Blends’. The conference is geared to classroom teachers and music teachers who work with children in the primary and middle years.
The conference will:
More information can be found on the VOSA website - http://vosa.org/
Ginette Aitchison <ginette_aitchison@hotmail.com>
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... We’ve got the Music & Music: Count Us In online resources are up and going, Jozzbeat-style. They are accessed via this page:
www.jozzbeat.com/MCUI2011/home
Jozzbeat will give each school a free log-in (after the school has registered for Music: Count Us In at www.musiccountusin.org.au)
OR
Existing customers of Jozzbeat that come through as MCUI registrees can just use their existing JozzBeat website password/username to access the resources.
Grab a group of kids, log on, learn the song, add some percussion, and have a fun lesson
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Go to resource: The West Australian Symphony Orchestra (WASO) is a professional orchestra resident in Western Australia.
Their events include education and outreach programs such as concerts for school students (including performances of set works), and webcasts and podcasts.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Here are some links I’ve created with ViewPure to allow students to view/listen to scenes from various films:
Shrek: Hallelujah Harry Potter: Hedwig’s Theme (no visuals) Moulin Rouge: Elephant scene Shrek: Dance Party Top Gun: Highway to the Danger Zone Man from Snowy River: the descent
Lesson ideas: describe how the music matches the images, try to figure out melody/chords, listen for mash-ups, discuss whether the music was written to match the film scene (or vice versa).
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Deep Blue Orchestra is a new style of energetic orchestral performance. Towns can request a concert (via Deep Blue’s website), and audience members can ask for copies of sheet music in order to participate in one song during the concert.
Deep Blue also promotes young musicians through workshops and their Young Blue program.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Here are some amusing (string) clips to share with students of all ages:
(1) I Will Survive (2) Pachelbel’s Canon (3) Titanic by MozART Group & while you’re having fun … (4) Hedwig’s Theme on Wine glasses
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