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What children need is a good tune!

What children need is a good tune!. Keynote by Richard McNicol. What are our aims ?. Opening up the world of sound to those who are forgetting how to listen Making music together Learning to “understand” music Encouraging the children to: Listen intelligently

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What children need is a good tune!

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  1. Whatchildrenneed is a good tune! Keynoteby Richard McNicol

  2. What are ouraims ? • Opening up the world of sound to those who are forgetting how to listen • Making music together • Learning to “understand” music Encouraging the children to: • Listen intelligently • Work together and cooperate • Discuss and negotiate • Develop language and learn better to express ourselves • Have respect for ideas and the ideas of others • Have the confidence to have and to develop new ideas Whycontemporarymusic ? • Contemporary musical language • Open ears

  3. How do we, the musicians, prepareourselves ? • Choose and analyse repertoire • Learn what is possible with different age groups • Decide what you wish to achieve and how you might arrive there • Discuss the project with the class teacher How do childrenlearn ? • Graduated tasks • Discussion • Repetition and reinforcement

  4. Planning the session • Task • Experimentations • Solution • Performance • Discussion • Pacing, including interludes for listening (the musician(s) perform to the children, followed by questions about and discussion of the music) Whatyouwillneed • A good working space or spaces for group work • Instruments • The support of the class teacher

  5. In the classroom Begin with an activity that involves immediate music-making • Either: question, answer, volunteer, music • Or: begin an improvisation and draw the children into it How will the project process ? • At the end of session 1: perform what has been achieved and discuss its effectiveness • At the beginning of session 2: perform what the children achieved in session 1, then develop the musical ideas further. • Introduce the concept of musical structure • At the end of the project: perform the completed music (to another class, to the school, to parents) then show and perform the target work (egLigeti, Kurtagetc)

  6. Skills todevelop • Looking at music analytically • How to question children • How to reject an idea that simply will not work • How to involve everyone and especially those with special educational needs • Praise and encouragement

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