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Orff Education
Orff Schulwerk is a system for teaching music to young students through dance, drama, movement and speech – in other words – a way that’s accessible to all students! This e-book by Samuel Wright shows teachers and students how to incorporate the Orff style into compositions and performances. Happy Orffing!
Instruments of the Orchestra
The next unit for stage 4 music classes will be Instruments of the Orchestra. The topic will focus on identifying instrument families, and analysing pieces from composers that have had a major influence on the course of orchestral music. As a companion to the topic, students will be working on this booklet. The booklet will available [...]
Assessment Task Notifications
At last! An update! Yes, it has been a while, but we’ve got some fresh stuff ready for the website. As promised, a section of the website is being devoted to storing the paperwork – you know, blue sheets, homework and the like. Click here to browse through the resources.
category: Assignment Tips, General Business
Year 10 Research Project: Jazz
This post is designed to help you through your Jazz research task on your edublog. I will be presenting “Summertime” by George Gershwin. The version you’ll hear is by jazz trumpeter and composer, Miles Davis. As discussed in class, I will analyse the piece using the concepts of music. Duration: The time signature is 4/4, [...]
category: Assignment Tips
Creating Your Own Blog
Getting Started Creating your own blog. It’s really easy. The “blog” is short for weblog – basically on online diary. The blog is hosted on your own website, with your own URL. First of all go to the edublogs website. You will see the page below. Click on the “Free!” logo. It’s big and green. [...]
category: Assignment Tips
HSC Aural Concepts
To the year 12s. Below is an amazing resource to help you articulate your aural responses in the HSC. Brilliant! This eBook by Samuel Wright shows you how to craft your responses from beginning to end (if you didn’t know already, saying “the beat sounds good, and it is noisy and stuff” isn’t really gonna cut [...]
category: Assignment Tips
Year 7 Half Yearly Exam Revision
Be afraid year sevens. Exam time is at hand… Just kidding. The half yearly music exam is nothing to be scared of, but it does help to know you stuff! Here are some tips: Get to know some musical definitions. Things like tempo, duration, beat and rhythm will be covered in the test. Memorising the [...]
category: Assignment Tips
Year 10 Half Yearly Exam
Areas for focus in the exam include: Structure - How is it used in the song you are listening to. Find out more about structure. You also have to answer questions about texture. Towards the end of the exam you will need to answer some questions on note recognition. What are the notes in treble AND bass [...]
category: Assignment Tips
Music Education Websites
On the Helpful Websites section of this website, I will start posting up websites that you will find helpful, especially for understanding music theory (you shouldn’t be intimidated at all, it’s actually quite fun). Enjoy!
Links, links links!
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