Monthly Archives: April 2012

Issue 36: Welcome to the Music Jungle

This week’s Olympic contribution is a website which has mp3s, lyrics, and even sheet music of National Anthems from all countries, great and small. I have also been looking into the situation regarding access to the songs on the Singup … Continue reading

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Issue 36: National Anthems for Olympic Celebrations

You may find this site useful – I’ve made a brief foray, and discovered that you can play the National Anthems of loads and loads of different countries (I was listening to the anthem for Tuvalu as I typed this). It … Continue reading

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Issue 36: Changes to Singup Access

I came a bit of a cropper in a class music lesson the other week when I was unable to stream songs from the singup website as before. I had been under the impression that you would still be able to … Continue reading

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Issue 36: Mini Beasts in the Pease Pudding

The “Pease Pudding Hot, Pease Pudding Cold” song has managed to get itself stuck in my head. This week it surfaced in a beginner recorder lesson in a class where the topic is “mini-beasts”. It is a useful little tune for introducing … Continue reading

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Issue 35: Welcome to the Jungle

Friday night and here we are again! This week there is a link to a site with lots of Aesop’s fables, to use as a starting point for composition (that’s my “Olympic” feature for this week), a new djembe rhythm, … Continue reading

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Issue 35: Aesop’s Fables

Many schools are studying Ancient Greeks this term, as a link to the Olympic Games. I have always found this a fairly tricky topic to follow in music, but it ocurred to me that Aesop’s fables might prove a useful … Continue reading

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Issue 35: Djembe Rhythms “Why are we waiting?” “Don’t Know”

What happens when you keep a music teacher waiting for their lunch? A djembe rhythm, of course. We all went out for a family reunion to a really nice pub (details available on request), but unfortunately we arrived at the … Continue reading

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Issue 35: Sounds, Syllables and Spellings

This term, I am using the topic of “around the world” as a starting point for my keystage 1 class music lessons. I came up with the bright idea of using the number of syllables in the name of a … Continue reading

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