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Monthly Archives: September 2013
Issue 105: Rabbit run on the frozen ground
This is a great little children’s song from Kentucky. I first came across is in Jo McNally’s “Young Voiceworks” anthology – a resource I go back to time and time again (Warm up and Stomp Cannon, Star light, star bright, … Continue reading
Posted in Clarinets, Djembe, Early Years, Keyboards, Percussion, Piano, Recorders, Resources, Samba
Tagged clarinets, djembe, percussion, Piano, Rabbit song, recorders, samba
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Issue 104: Welcome to The Jungle
Autumn has arrived; grey days, gloomy weather… but we have been promised a last slice of Summer later this month. I’ll believe it when I see it. Meanwhile I have changed my wardrobe for fleeces instead of T-shirts and shoes-and-socks … Continue reading
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Issue 104: Sambalele (is a monkey)
This is a neat little song about a monkey. I’ve come across it in a number of different versions, all with roughly the same tune, but with varied lyrics and slightly altered rhythms. This is the version that I am … Continue reading
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Tagged composition, djembe, internalisation, internalising the pulse, samba, Sambalele, songs, ukulele
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Issue 104: The value of lesson reviews
When I first started being a class music teacher, I found the whole business of writing up a lesson review to be very tedious, and on the whole it didn’t happen. As I only taught 5 classes a week, in a … Continue reading
Issue 103: Welcome to the Jungle
This week I had a nice surprise in my email in-box – a very welcome email of appreciation and thanks. It’s always great to get feedback. Quick addition here – there are (as always!) a couple of typos. Comes of being … Continue reading
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Issue 103: The New School Year
Many of you classroom teachers will be well into the groove by now. We peripatetic teachers don’t really get going until the second week of term, to let the usual pattern of the school timetable established, and to give us … Continue reading
Issue 103: Friday Afternoons
This is the name of a set of 12 songs composed by Benjamin Britten between 1933 and 1935 for the children of a prep school where his brother used to teach. On Friday Afternoons there was a choir, and, judging … Continue reading