September '11 Music Education Blog Carnival

Happy New School Year! 

It is with great pleasure to {finally} publish the September edition of Music Education Blog Carnival here. I want to thank many teachers who submitted great posts. Their thoughts, recommendations, and philosophies, I believe, stretch our own thinking. For those of you who are  beginning a new school year, I want to bid you a great year of deep learning. May the learning in these months ahead transform us so that we can be better musicians and teachers. [Personally, I want to work on listening to my students with understanding and emphathy (Kosta and Kallick). I hope to blog about it some time this year...]

Enjoy reading this edition of Music Ed Blog Carnival! I encourage you to comment on the posts you read. And if you would like to host Music Ed Blog Carnival, contact Dr. Joe Pisano at @pisanojm or visit his site, http://mustech.net/.

{Forgive me if I made mistakes on your posts! There were just too many submissions!

Cheers! ~ ysl

Music Education

• Samuel Wright gives Orff Orchestration tips, hints, references and how-to layout scores for Orff or Kodaly arrangements in Sibelius, Finale and more. Orff Orchestration & Notation is posted at his blog, Wright-Stuff Music.
• Erica Ann Sipes writes poignantly about Reality-Check for Young Musicians and Their Parents posted on her blog, Beyond the Notes.
• Scott Watson shares about his new book, Using Technology to Unlock Musical Creativity in his post, Free Webcast at www.Banddirector.com. You can find this post on http://musicteachers911.blogspot.com/.
• Bill Harrison writes Jazz Listening 101, saying, “I wrote this post to help both musicians and civilians understand how to appreciate a jazz performance.” It’s posted at PlayJazzNow Blog.
• Evan Tobias presents Women, music, and music education: FTM11 Conference posted at http://musiced.net/etobiasblog.
• Kyle Freesen writes a curious conversation starter about female composers! He’d love to hear what other think on the topic. The post Where are the Women in Composition? is posted at The Virtual Podium.
• Eric Rasmussen presents How Babies Grow Up to be Musical: Imitation, Type 2 of PreAudiational Development posted at Teach Music to Kids! Make sure you read Jessica Tomlinson’s post that spurred Eric to respond.
• Mr. Cooper presents The Three Levels of Listening on his blog, Cooper’s Divertimento. Be sure to download a PDF guide.
• Allison Friedman presents Rethinking the Way We Teach Instrumental Lessons to Beginners posted on her blog, Mindless Ramblings of a Not So New Music Teacher.
• Thomas J. West presents The Blended Learning Secondary Music Classroom posted on his blog. He says, ”This coming school year, all of my students, from 6th grade all the way to seniors, will be learning for the first time in a true blended learning environment…”
• Kat Fulton presents What is a Boomwhacker? posted at Rhythm For Good.
• Patti Anderson presents The Dumbing Down of America’s Potential Musicians posted at Raising the bar for music education.
• Shiloh Stone shares about a music game in the post My Best Music Game. You can learn about this game at Everydaygameplan.net
• Carrie Persichini presents Substitute Planning…Do it while you’re healthy!! posted at Jedi Music saying, “September is a great time for elementary music educators to plan ahead for a sick day…”
• Elizabeth Heist gives Tips for Teaching Jazz posted on her blog, Music Education Highlights from an Undergrad.
• Gabrielle Deschamps: How to Cope When your Music Class is Full of “Screamo” (Sorry, post-hardcore) Fans at Music.Teach.N.Tech blog.
• Dan Leeman gives good advice for instrumental teachers: Completing A Bid Process For Musical Instruments posted at Music Education for All.
• Gene Petty presents Angles On Playing The Guitar: Beginner Guitar Lessons posted at Download Guitar Lessons.

Music Advocacy

• Jen Hellmann introduces a post written by Marci Wise: Bring Our Music Back: An Instrument for Change via Positive Impact Magazine
• Teresa Rose advocates The Benefits Of Learning An Instrument posted at Learn Music, saying, “I wrote this post to help others really discover that when you make a commitment to learn music, you gain so much more than JUST knowing how to play music. A lot of valuable life skills and personal growth are gained too.”
• Danette M. Schott presents Stop and Hear the Music! posted at Help! S-O-S for Parents.

Music Listening & Performance Review

• Travis Branam thinks through prejudices and cultural nuances in musical genres in Hoodrat, hoodrat, hoochie opera? posted on his blog, An Authentic Cadence.
• Bach James: It Dont Mean A Thing If It Aint Got That Swing….. Sometimes. Here is  an interesting playlist. Check it out on his blog, Guided Audio.
• Jessica Mullen presents Beautiful Tone Begins With Listening. She includes a handy list of recordings by instrument. It is posted at Mullen Music Studio Blog.
• Ariel Herzog introduces and guides discussion on Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E Minor posted at Everything About Classical Music.

Music Software/Hardware

• David Ahrens writes:  Free Android Apps for Band Directors posted at Sound Education.
• Joseph Pisano lists 18 URL link, from his summer clinics, to Finale-related information and resources on the Web: Finale Related Resources List posted at MusTech.Net.

Music Technology

• Eugene Cantera presents an online instrumental program in the post,  Who Are The Dallas School of Music and Discover, Learn, and Play? Check out their site, Discover, Learn, Play.
• Katie Wardrobe lists a huge collection!  Super Round-Up: iPads in Music Education posted at Midnight Music.
• Joanna Sisk-Purvis shares a collection of iPad apps for general education and organization for music educators: iPads at Home and School, part one: Index and Productivity apps posted at Joanna’s music blog…

Music Tips/ Learning Reflection

• Kelly Schenbeck Riley gives sound advice! Interview Tips for Music Teachers posted at Kelly Riley’s Music Classroom.
• Lindsay Morelli reflects: Prepping for the School Year posted at Lindsay Morelli.
• Kelly Petro presents Summer Work posted at A Teacher on Teaching.
• Barbra Weidlein presents Ten Minutes That Will Change Your Life, focusing on semi-supine practice she learned this summer at an Alexander Technique intensive.

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