http://www.limelightmagazine.com.au/Article/338257,tognettis-violin-damaged-in-shark-attack.aspx
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Loading ...www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJkUKcNcfR0 This is the first of TEN free YouTube clips about the making of the stage production of the Lion King. Classes might talk about musicals, African music, percussion, music to create moods … ENJOY!
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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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Saturday morning 8am
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 ...http://www.aco.com.au/whats_on/event_detail/brahms4 – short video clips on website
DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto
BRAHMS Symphony No.4
Richard Tognetti Director and Violin
Steven Isserlis Cello
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-EkRHRxSDY ACO is currently touring “The Reef” program around Australia – this 2 minute YouTube clip shows ACO’s multimedia approach – music + waves + technology. Ask students for other ideas re. uniting Art music with nature. View the concert program HERE.
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The Gold Coast Arts Centre is launching ACOVirtual – a 3D experience of the Australian Chamber Orchestra for all ages!
Watch the “making of” ACOVirtual HERE
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Go to resource: Brass Instruments and Pitch, Percussion Instruments and Pitch, String Instruments and Pitch, & Woodwind Instruments and Pitch are four lessons that cover how to make basic musical instruments. The lessons are written by Leslie Thomas and published by the Kennedy Center US. The production of sound through string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments is explored. The lessons are designed for K-4 students (US).
(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.
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Go to resource: Adventures in Music with the Recorder was developed in 1997 by Ubisoft. This software is designed to teach children how to play the recorder. Music literacy, rhythm, tempo, melody, and harmony are introduced. The software contains 37 songs and 60 music lessons, with options to download further songs from the Ubisoft website.
(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 ...CALLING ALL GUITARISTS, RECORDER PLAYERS, UKULELE-ISTS…
(and flutes, and violins, and clarinets, and saxophones, and bass guitars, and cellos, and marimbas, and percussion… and any other instrument you like)
Do you play an instrument? Would you like to join a band? Come to ArtPlay in the heart of Melbourne on Sunday 11 November to help us form the biggest band ArtPlay has ever seen or heard!
The event is ‘Jump on the Bandwagon’ and the aim is to see how many musicians – all ages, all playing together – it takes to fill ArtPlay with music. In the course of an hour we will create a brand new piece of music, with help from some of Melbourne’s most inspiring and innovative musicians from the jazz, classical and rock music worlds.
‘Jump on the Bandwagon’ is a Big Jam for the whole family, and everyone is invited – mums, dads, brothers and sisters, grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles – and anyone else! You can be any age and of any level of musical experience. More experienced players will learn new music, invent riffs and rhythms, improvise a solo, and work alongside musicians from the MSO, the Australian Art Orchestra, and Melbourne’s diverse freelance scene. First-timers will have the unforgettable experience of being part of a large and tight ensemble – like an orchestra but with a few more electric guitars and a lot more percussion.
BYO instrument or play one of ours on the day.
Jump on the Bandwagon
Sunday 11 November
ArtPlay (Birrarung Marr, behind Federation Square)
11am-12noon and 2pm-3pm (choose one session or come to both – no two sessions are the same)
$10 per family
Bookings – ArtPlay, 96647900
http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/artplay/WhatsOn/Pages/SpecialEvents.aspx
Created and led by Gillian Howell, leader of Big Jams for Melbourne International Jazz Festival, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, City of Manningham, and others.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... ArtsAlive.ca – US website with lots of free lesson plans, recordings and interactive Music websites
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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 ... (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.
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Go to resource: Boomerang Jam by Susie Davies-Splitter and Phil Splitter, is published by Two Up Music Education, 2000. The publication is a collection of songs employing contemporary styles that can be utilised in the classroom. A teacher’s manual is also available.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Brass Bedlam: A mad-cap, educational romp through history using brass instruments, song and verse.
Book now for 2012.
kaddis@melbpc.org.au
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Play this film clip of “Best Coin” to your class … discuss why people respond emotionally to music … then discuss ways they could create their own flash mob in your community. www.wimp.com/bestcoin/
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Try this fun YouTube clip as an ice-breaker at the start of Music class – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgAlQuqzl8o. Would the same battle work on clarinet? Ask the kids for their own ideas on musical parodies.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Go to resource: Chinese Instruments is a two-lesson unit published by ArtsEdge, Kennedy Center (USA) and written by Mary Beth Bauernschub. The unit introduces students to Chinese instruments through research and listening. In addition, students create an instrument using recycled materials. The unit is suitable for Years 3 and 4 students (USA).
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Go to resource: Classic Kids (various) is a collection of Classical music recordings that are suitable for children. The CD was produced in 1992 by ABC for kids and compiled by Stephen McGee. This CD is a suitable introduction for children to orchestral music. Some Australian-composed works are included on the CD.
(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 ...KTPercussion provides percussion charts for classroom and music teachers at a small cost. The arranger is Australian.
www.ktpercussion.com/ensemblemusic/jsmusic/classpercussionthatworks.html
(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
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Go to resource: Cool Cats: the red hot recorder course by Jeff Mead and published by Bushfire Press, is a three level recorder course for primary students. Student books with accompanying CD and teaching kits are available.
(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 ... Go to resource: Creative Musical Experiences, by Robert Smith, is published by RIC Publishing, WA, 2006. The series contains songs for voice and piano and is targeted at the primary level.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Explorations in sound, technology, recording techniques and instrument design by Diego Stocco.
“I always been fascinated by the raw musical power that an orchestra can express, so, after creating a series of videos where I’m performing a multi-track piece with an instrument I designed, I decided to take the concept a step farther and create my own orchestra made of unusually unique instruments.
The project started by handcrafting a diverse selection of instruments, then I wrote a composition where I could fit them all in and finally performed each part. I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I enjoyed doing it!”
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Go to resource: Dalcroze Australia is the official Dalcroze association in Australia and offers courses for teachers. Dalcroze Eurhythmics teaches music through body movement to provide a physical experience of music. Activities cover improvisation and the use of solfege. The association’s events include conferences, workshops, and their site has links to more information about membership and events, as well as Dalcroze publications.
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“I always been fascinated by the raw musical power that an orchestra can express, so, after creating a series of videos where I’m performing a multi-track piece with an instrument I designed, I decided to take the concept a step farther and create my own orchestra made of unusually unique instruments.
The project started by handcrafting a diverse selection of instruments, then I wrote a composition where I could fit them all in and finally performed each part.”
(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 ...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 ...Here are some questions to accompany the first 55 minutes of Disney’s “Fantasia 2000″ DVD
“Fantasia 2000”
Questions are in same order as the DVD …
1) What instrument does the presenter want to play?
2) What family of instruments is playing while hundreds of whales fly through the air?
3) At the end of the jumping whales, what type of drums are playing?
4) Every minute or so, one instrument plays solo (= on its own) … what instrument is it?
5) When the skater makes a “$” sign with his skate blades, what is the solo instrument?
6) Next, the orchestra plays Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto number ________ .
7) What jumps out of a box?
Is the music happy or grumpy when you see the Jack-in-the-box?
9) Carnival of the Animals starts with pink flamingos and music with trills (= wobbly bits). TRUE or FALSE ?
10) The sorcerer’s apprentice is what kind of animal?
11) What instrument family plays as the sorcerer makes a bat shape out of steam (before the butterfly)?
12) The music for the Sorcerer’s Apprentice is ALL soft and slow. TRUE or FALSE ?
13) When the broom FIRST walks, what instrument family is playing?
14) What happens when Mickey breaks the broom?
15) Pomp and Circumstance music starts with which instrument?
16) When the ark opens, a choir joins in. TRUE or FALSE
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Australian company “Thorp Music” has written a series of graded Flexible Ensembles which teachers can adapt to their instrument combination – http://shop.thorpmusic.com/flexible-ensemble-sheet-music-c-4.html
Charts include pop tunes, Baroque melodies and traditional Australian songs.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...free beginner cello music at www.capotastomusic.com/cello-sheet-music/easy.htm
free easy cello Christmas carols at www.capotastomusic.com/cello-sheet-music/christmas.htm
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...http://gmajormusictheory.org/Freebies/freebiesFP.html This website features FREE songs in a logical sequence for learning to play keyboard AND read music at the SAME time. I use it with Year 7 students, but it suits younger and older students as well! Songs with GREEN dots are free — blue dots require payment. Many songs have accompaniments as well.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Would you like to educate your students about brass music?
Do you want to encourage more students to pick up a brass instrument?
Hawthorn Band is offering a free educational concert to schools in the City of Boroondara.
BOOK NOW FOR A PERFORMANCE IN TERM 4, 2012.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Once you sign in (free), you will receive a link (via email) to watch 3 free video lessons on basic djembe technique.
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