Have you seen the Create Your Own Interval Examples page on the EarMaster website? What a fabulous resource! Our Music Progressions evaluations are in April each year, so I’ve been assigning several of my students to work on specific ear training exercises at different websites. This is with the hope that maybe they won’t all […]
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Review of How Sweet the Sound
When our local music teachers association dubbed our first meeting of the year a “New Music Review” I knew exactly what I wanted to play. I had recently received Wendy Stevens’ newest book, How Sweet the Sound, and fell in love with the first arrangement – Day of Arising. It’s a gorgeous setting that just […]
Monday Mailbag – Introducing Baroque Music
How do you introduce baroque period music or any music with counterpoint to a student for the first time? What a great question! However, I’m afraid my answer will reveal my total lack of structure when it comes to intermediate level students, so I’m hoping that others will share their thoughts on how to approach […]
Christmas Music Galore!
In continuing yesterday’s theme of finding music, today I wanted to share some links I’ve found for free Christmas Music: Making Music Fun – A variety of levels, simple/straight-forward melodies, rather than arranged pieces. Music for Music Teachers – simple melodies; not very exciting musically, but good for those who just want to play familiar […]
Monday Mailbag – Finding Music
You seem to have plentiful sources of repertoire at your fingertips. I am having a hard time finding good supplemental music for my small, beginning studio. The closest music store is about an hour away, so I rely heavily on internet searching and shopping. However, I find it difficult to know the level of the […]
New Music Blog and Free Download on Music Education Benefits
One of the families in my studio sent me a link to this brand new blog that has been launched by Sonlight (a curriculum for homeschoolers). The blog is primarily geared toward families pursuing music education (rather than teachers), but I think it will be a great place to get ideas! You can also download […]
