Hey everybody, check out this online article about flash music games. Pretty cool!
5 Rhythmic Online Flash Music Games to Groove Up Your Day.
Killer!
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Monday, September 24, 2012
Music & Animation
My mom co-founded a small private school in New Hampshire in the 1980's. It is very much art and nature based. The famous Mount Monadnock in Dublin, NH is the focus of many studies at the school. This video is a collaboration from a couple years ago that the 7th grade class did with the nearby MacDowell Colony, the oldest artist's colony in the United States. An animator and a musician (the late Karen Aqua and her husband Ken Field) worked with the kids to develop a video about the mountain that so influences the school. Watch here:
Ken worked with the kids to improvise and compose their own music for the soundtrack of the film, much of which was played by the 7th graders themselves on various instruments. This is a perfect and inspiring example of integrating media and project-based learning into the classroom, as well as getting kids to come out of their shells musically. The fact that much of it was improvised gave the kids a chance to have a no-pressure musical experience and truly hear their potential.
Check out Ken Field here.
Check out Karen Aqua here.
Check out Mountain Shadows School here.
And of course check out The MacDowell Colony here, it's an incredible place in the woods of Peterborough, NH (my hometown). It has housed artists as notable and varied as Leonard Bernstein, Spalding Gray, Michael Chabon and Thornton Wilder. Very interesting stuff!
Check out Ken Field here.
Check out Karen Aqua here.
Check out Mountain Shadows School here.
And of course check out The MacDowell Colony here, it's an incredible place in the woods of Peterborough, NH (my hometown). It has housed artists as notable and varied as Leonard Bernstein, Spalding Gray, Michael Chabon and Thornton Wilder. Very interesting stuff!
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Lesson Plans
Hey everybody,
I found a really cool group of music lesson plans over at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame website.
I breezed through them. Some of my favorites were "Using Rock to Teach Literary Devices: Jimi Hendrix and 'The Wind Cries Mary'", "A Modest Proposal: Irony Made Understandable With Rock and Roll", and of course "Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, The Minstrels"!
Strangely, the Zeppelin lesson deals strictly with "Stairway to Heaven", and not how much they reference Lord of the Rings all the time! "All that glitters is gold"? Come on, people!
I found a really cool group of music lesson plans over at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame website.
I breezed through them. Some of my favorites were "Using Rock to Teach Literary Devices: Jimi Hendrix and 'The Wind Cries Mary'", "A Modest Proposal: Irony Made Understandable With Rock and Roll", and of course "Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, The Minstrels"!
Strangely, the Zeppelin lesson deals strictly with "Stairway to Heaven", and not how much they reference Lord of the Rings all the time! "All that glitters is gold"? Come on, people!
Playing for Change
Here's a great video to start off with. It's a compilation of street musicians from around the world playing "Stand By Me", created by the group Playing for Change.
From the Playing for Change website: "Playing for Change is a multimedia movement created to inspire, connect, and bring peace to the world through music. The idea for this project arose from a common belief that music has the power to break down boundaries and overcome distances between people. No matter whether people come from different geographic, political, economic, spiritual or ideological backgrounds, music has the universal power to transcend and unite us as one human race. And with this truth firmly fixed in our minds, we set out to share it with the world." Check it out!
http://playingforchange.com/
From the Playing for Change website: "Playing for Change is a multimedia movement created to inspire, connect, and bring peace to the world through music. The idea for this project arose from a common belief that music has the power to break down boundaries and overcome distances between people. No matter whether people come from different geographic, political, economic, spiritual or ideological backgrounds, music has the universal power to transcend and unite us as one human race. And with this truth firmly fixed in our minds, we set out to share it with the world." Check it out!
http://playingforchange.com/
Welcome!
Hello and welcome to Face the Music!
In this blog I will present ideas and inspirations for music students. I will share videos and songs I think kids of all ages would appreciate, as well as some activities to nourish the love of music in the classroom.
Let's do this thing!
In this blog I will present ideas and inspirations for music students. I will share videos and songs I think kids of all ages would appreciate, as well as some activities to nourish the love of music in the classroom.
Let's do this thing!
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