Eric Whitacre, participatory culture, and remixing the virtual choir
Music educators can embrace participatory culture and related musical engagement right now by providing students with the opportunity to remix Eric Whitacre’s composition Fly to Paradise, the fourth...
View ArticleSerial opera format as a springboard for musical exploration?
Allan Kozinn reports on the opera Vireo: The Spiritual Biography of a Witch’s Accuser composed by Lisa Bielawa, which will be broadcast over television or via the web in short installments over two...
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Dead Prez & Jean-Pierre Rampal – A serendipitous sample discovery
While listening to the following recording this morning I immediately thought to myself “I know that melody” . . . Jean-Pierre Rampal & Lily Laskine performing Kojo no Tsuki Now check out Dead...
View ArticleVisualizing Music
I’m always interested in the ways that people visualize and represent music. As a field, we can often be very Western standard notation-based. I’m increasingly interested in digitally mediated ways of...
View ArticleForensic Musicologists in the News Again!
The recent New York Times article The Man Musicians Call When Two Tunes Sound Alike by Alex Marshall provides some well-deserved attention to forensic musicologists and has some great potential for...
View ArticleConsidering orchestration and arrangements with Laura Mvula’s Sing to the Moon
I often enjoy listening to multiple examples of the same song by the same artist. In addition to being enjoyable in and of itself, having multiple recordings of the same music can be a nice way to have...
View ArticleMaking Positive Impact Through Music
Making Positive Impact Through Music Music educators have a role in facilitating responses, music learning and teaching in relation to hate and bigotry occurring throughout contemporary society....
View ArticleThe Potential of StyleSwaps in Music Education
While looking up some info on Post Malone’s Better Now I came across Simon De Witt’s (AKA Blanks) 80s Version of Better Now. Here are both versions: StyleSwap(s) and Music Education De Witt (Banks)...
View ArticleVideo Games & Music Education: The Potential of narrative & musical branching
What do you imagine in sound and imagery when thinking about video games and music education? A theme I’ve explored throughout my writing and teaching related to video games and music education...
View ArticleMaker culture and music education: Programming a digital ornament with music...
How diverse are the forms of musical engagement that we support in music programs? I think music education, particularly in K-12 contexts could be much more expansive in terms of the types of musical...
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