Essentials for Teachers
Giving Feedback - Exploring a Student Sample
This example of a student submission from May 2022 serves to provide educators with strategies for delivering effective feedback that will assist students in maximizing their potential. The page has been...
Essentials for Teachers
Feedback and Assessment
These pages provide an overview of the principles of providing feedback and the guidelines to be followed throughout the course. It includes a student submission of an "Exploring Music in Context" portfolio,...
Activities
As a Performer - Lesson 2, Cher's Believe
This is a continuation of the previous lesson, which focused on Cher's Believe and her performance interpretation. Areas such as the song's structure, use of repetition, melodic and harmonic alignment,...
Activities
As a Performer - Lesson 1, Cher's Believe
These pages offer some student-based activities in order to prepare for an Experimenting as a Performer task based on the source material "Believe" from Cher's album of the same name (from 1998). It has...
Activities
Lesson 3 - C. Austin Miles
This page offers a conclusion to the lesson on American hymns, which will help students ultimately produce their own creating exercise. Here students will be asked to synthesise their learning by setting...
Activities
Lesson 4 - Webern
This page offers insight into how one could take the observations made in the Webern Symphony to create an exercise that realizes the conventions of the musical style (see p.49 of the Guide for more information...
Activities
Lesson 4 - Varèse
This page is a continuation of the early lesson on Varèse's Poème Électronique in which students have been asked to present their assigned reading in visual representation form. The lesson also features...
Activities
Lesson 3 - Varèse
In this lesson, students will gain an understanding of some of the structural features of this ground-breaking Varèse work and engage in a critical listening activity that will help to unpack meaning....
Getting Started
Difference Between Exploring and Experimenting
The question often comes up as to the difference between the exploring and experimenting components. This is quite an essential question and needs to be addressed as one develops one's course. This page...
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