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Open scores and music students: An invitation to compose from Jason Freeman
The New York Times has a fantastic section called “The Score,” which features composers discussing their music, process, and various issues related to composition. Jason Freeman, a composer and...
View ArticleThe Results of an interactive composition project…
I posted earlier on Jason Freeman’s open score project and invitation for people to create their own musical versions of his open scores. The results are in and he selected several versions that were...
View ArticleCreating, Producing, Analyzing, & Critiquing Music in the Cloud: IndabaMusic...
Music educators can benefit from the increasing sophistication and ease of use of music web-based technologies allowing for a wide range of musical engagement. IndabaMusic is one such technology with...
View ArticleMusical Expression & Perception in the New York Times
The New York Times article To Tug Hearts, Music First Must Tickle the Neurons by Pam Belluck is a fantastic look at issues of musical expression and perception that could lead to engaging discussions...
View ArticleProject Based Learning & Music Education: Resources
The lastest version of Edutopia focuses on best practices for Project Based Learning, highlighting a school that incorporates this approach to teaching and learning. Project based learning is an...
View ArticleToward Convergence: Adapting Music Education to Contemporary Society and...
Tobias, E. S. (2013). Toward convergence: Adapting music education to contemporary society and participatory culture. Music Educators Journal, 99(4), 29–36. doi:10.1177/0027432113483318 The digital...
View ArticleMultimedia, Intermedia, Music, Media Arts, and evolving curricula: Robert...
Throughout the years I’ve found Bang on A Can to be an inspiration for music education. Whether their flexible ensemble structures, their hyphenated musicianship in terms of many members being both...
View ArticleEric 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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