Listening with Purpose Passive listening has its place in our lives. If you’re anything like me, you passively listen to music to make an annoying chore less torturous or as background noise to the dumpster fire that is 2020. While passive listening certainly...
Sounds of the Forest by Sofia Gubaidulina is the musical embodiment of the birds chirping, rushing water, and rustling leaves. If you’re looking for a piece to teach several concepts that could be adapted to multiple grade levels, this is it. Sofia Gubaidulina...
Now that winter is upon us, it’s a good time to share ideas on how to incorporate Vivaldi’s Winter into your classroom. In November, I wrote about Vivaldi’s Autumn, and how you can use the piece to teach dynamics, timbre, and form, which you can read...
The halls here at home have been decked for a few weeks now, and my “Traditional Christmas” radio has been getting a lot of play on Pandora. I love the music this time of year, and I’m trying to savor it as much as possible. As for my blog, my goals...
Today I’m going to share some more ideas on how to incorporate art music into your classroom. If you didn’t catch my last post on this topic, you can read it here. For part two of this series, I’ll be matching well-known pieces with the musical...
From time to time, I’ve heard fellow music teachers say that they rarely incorporate art music into their elementary music classroom. Most often, they see the complexities in the music as a hindrance. However, as Feierabend and other experts have pointed out,...
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