Music education
L'éducation musicale en Finlande : la recette miracle de l'excellence
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- Monday, 05 September 2016
Citons quelques noms : Rautavaara, Lindberg, Kaija Saariaho, Karita Mattila, Jukka-Pekka Saraste ou Esa-Pekka Salonen, les Finlandais interprètes ou compositeurs portent haut les couleurs de leur pays dans le monde musical.
Abu Dhabi education revolution turns to art and music
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- Monday, 05 September 2016
After expanding reforms to the public school curriculum, including bilingual lessons and the shift in focus to science subjects, the Abu Dhabi Education Council has detailed a pilot programme for arts and music.
UK: Why are our schools pushing classical music to the margins?
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- Monday, 05 September 2016
Growing within our schools today is a disturbing trend; increasingly, music is viewed as an optional subject – something equivalent to a passion that merely runs parallel to ‘academic’ subjects – that leads to contempt for classical music borne out of an ignorance of all it contains.
A Metronome Practice Strategy for Musicians Who Hate Metronomes
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- Tuesday, 23 August 2016
Most musicians have been encouraged to practice with a metronome at some point. I certainly was, more than once.
3 ways to Pique Your Child's Interest in Music
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- Tuesday, 23 August 2016
It is no secret that learning music has all sorts of benefits for kids. However, with competing extracurricular activities like sports it can be difficult to pique your child’s interest in music.
Improvisation Is Not a Bad Word
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- Tuesday, 23 August 2016
A well-rounded musician can play both with music and by ear. As a classically trained flautist, I could play anything put in front of me, but when I needed to just play a song, or play along, I would become paralyzed with fear.
The Trials and Errors of Music Education
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- Tuesday, 23 August 2016
Neesa Sunar reflects on her experience teaching elementary music, and laments the loss of depth in today's musical curriculum.
The power of music
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- Tuesday, 23 August 2016
Music has always been known to have therapeutic and healing powers. From the Biblical records of young David’s harp that soothed King Saul to Greek physician and Father of Modern Medicine Hippocrates playing music for patients with mental disorders and even the use of music to convalescing soldiers in Army hospitals during the World Wars, history is riddled with proof of music’s ability to calm minds and transform lives.
Investment in early years’ music education considered key to social and economic well-being
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- Tuesday, 26 July 2016
Giving children good music education from early years onwards is one of the best social investments that can be made in the next generation, the principal of Scotland’s national conservatoire told delegates at a leading international conference opening in Glasgow.
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