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The The ENZA magazine MMENZA magazine 2011 in this issue... Volume 7 Keeping it Live – Marimba on the Underground, Into Music 1 Digitised – a review, Number 2 Strengthening Te Reo Maori in EC Centres, Inspiration for Songwriting and much much more November November 2011 The Menza magazine in this issue . 3 Introduction – Errol Moore Sound Arts is published by: MENZA: Music Education New Zealand Aotearoa. 5 New MENZA Board members It is the professional magazine for all New Zealand music educators. 6 Music Education Research Centre – David Sell MENZA has as its vision: Making Education brighter through Music. 7 Research Corner – Tracy Rohan 9 Keeping it Live! Marimba on the MENZA maintains a website: www.menza.org.nz Underground – Anne Prichard !e postal address is: MENZA PO Box 27499 12 LEARNZ Making Music – Graham Elsmore Marion Square WELLINGTON 6141 14 Cultural Chords Music Conference, April 2011 16 In Tone, In Tune, In Time – Kathleen Mulligran MENZA Board Members 20 Performing & Inquiring – Sarah Hoskyns Errol Moore Otago [email protected] (President) 21 Into Music 1 – Catherine Short Sally Bodkin-Allen Southland [email protected] Mary Horner Wellington Mary.Horner@ stmaryswellington.school nz Ukeleles Good, Recorders Bad? – Mary Cornish 23 Stephanie Lees Auckland [email protected] Millie Locke Auckland [email protected] Kai Moana – An approach to the strengthening of 24 te reo Ma¯ori in an early childhood centre by Catherine Short Waikato [email protected] Pakeha teachers. – Fay Young Celia Stewart Canterbury [email protected] Andrew Stopps Wellington [email protected] 26 Pop Music with Purpose – Jill Brider Maria Winder Auckland [email protected] 27 Music Department Musings – Grace Davey Editorial Coordinators 28 Song Writing – Jane Egan Overall content Celia Stewart [email protected] ECE Helen Willberg geoff[email protected] 30 Kids strung along and loving it – Jennifer Moss Primary Jennifer Moss [email protected] Secondary Stephanie Lees [email protected] Tertiary Sally Bodkin-Allen [email protected] The Editorial team encourage reader feedback. If you have any comments or experiences that relate to articles For advertising inquiries, contact the Administrator, published in Sound Arts, please mail or email them to Bronwyn Bronwyn Pou at [email protected] Pou, the MENZA Administrator at [email protected] These may be printed in the next edition of the !e magazine is typeset and printed by Printlink, magazine or published on the MENZA website. 33–43 Jackson Street, Petone, Wellington The views expressed do not necessarily re!ect the views of the MENZA Board and the Sound Arts Editorial team. The Editorial team request that sources are rightfully acknowledged in all MENZA publications. Where it is felt a breach of this protocol may have occurred this can be noti"ed to the editor or directly to the writer. MENZA has an expectation of ethical practices in the matter of disclosures. INTRODUCTION Report of MENZA Board Chair Person to the Annual General Meeting 8 October 2011 t has been a privilege to act as chair of your society’s management committee over the period 2010 to 2011. I thank members of the board for many forms of support, action and guidance Iover the time. Subsequent to the discussions at the last AGM, I adopted several goals. Apart from support and professional development for members these were: 1. To build the networking capability and activity of MENZA with all who would like to talk with us, those we loosely describe as Related Professional Organisations. 2. To build membership with a view to spreading the worth of what we do, as well as enhance the balance sheet. 3. To accept the mantel of advocacy agent for music education in New Zealand, and form strategies by which this might happen. Errol Moore, President, MENZA 4. To reinvigorate the relationship between regions and MENZA. members. More importantly, the board is 1. Networking trying to reinvigorate the connection with We can be grateful for the work of Angela Warmke and Millie Locke in the compilation regions by way of nominations to the board. of a data base of organisations. Sally Bodkin has distributed the letter and we are already There may be other ways that we can be receiving responses. For the new board, a possible next step is inclusion of small features more mutually supportive, and certainly about organisations in a publication of Sound Arts which re! ect MENZA’s important linking Tune Me In is integral in that. role to music educators. You might say that the tone of the report 2. Membership is pessimistic. That is not the intention, but realities of membership and " nance impinge The membership of MENZA has fallen slightly again. This may be due to economic times. It heavily on the e# ectiveness of your board. may be due to primary teachers feeling the need to be part of a diversity of organisations. However, secondary teachers are very much our mainstay, hence, meeting their needs However, what the board has achieved, and remains a priority. The interest of early childhood teachers remains high in local workshops has been a catalyst for, since the last AGM is around New Zealand but as with primary, that does not translate into membership to the signi" cant, and I think, worthy of celebration same extent. The board has been told that the membership fee is no longer an issue, and the on this occasion. In the " rst place, MENZA’s work of the board has had total relevance to educators. This knowledge will hopefully mean most obvious presence continues to be felt improving attitudes about membership, particularly amongst teachers who are loosely or through the Sound Arts magazine. Two formally associated with local societies (regional partners). In any event, in relation to the informative and beautifully presented " nance part of the goal, the implications of a lower membership may be that the incoming editions came out this year. These have come board will meet twice rather than three times in 2012, and Sound Arts may go to an electronic about again because of the management format rather than three hard copy editions. skill, creativity, energy and dedication of Celia Stewart. To my amazement really, while 3. Advocacy it seems to be no issue to get teachers to The advocacy mantel came under MENZA’s wing in April of this year with the demise of talk, encouraging people to write about METANZ. I express appreciation to those people who served on behalf of Music Education on their practice appears to be a monumental the METANZ. From the point of formally accepting the remaining assets and the advocacy role, challenge. Yet through all of that, and limited we have contributed to an advocacy statement in the Hook Line and Singalong publication. support from the rest of us on the board, While a small start, the board discussion about what needed to be said was a very lively Celia has been undaunted. She has compiled, hour indeed. We have also brie! y discussed matters of senior secondary music curriculum edited, written herself, and negotiated her and the itinerant teachers of music. Vicki Thorpe identi" ed these issues partly through her way to great publications. attendance on behalf of MENZA at the PPTA subject association conference. It goes without Cultural Chords grew from the leadership of saying that the choice of issue(s) we take to politicians or to the community is signi" cant. Stephanie Lees, and fellow board dedicatees With very limited resources, we need to focus our energies on matters of wide signi" cance Millie Locke and Maria Winder. Achieving a to our membership. brilliantly workable relationship with TRCC was a " rst step. Coordinating a wide diversity 4. Relationships of excellent presenters under the cultural The possibility of a constitutional relationship with regional partners, (local societies) has cloak of music education from early childhood become a Danny Carter moment. “Get over it”. For example, Music Education Otago is a strong to senior secondary made a big chime. local society. There is no interest there at this time in reforming a more formal relationship Finding a fabulous venue with hospitable with MENZA, nor in any shared membership arrangement attached to the constitution. As sta# was another big tick. Achieving Dave a result, we remain reliant on regional partners charging a fee di# erential for activities, as Price, a long-time friend of music education a way of encouraging national membership. The board is also writing to regional partners in New Zealand, as an international keynote seeking support of speci" c aspects, such as part payment of travel expenses for board speaker through negotiation with the Sound Arts November 2011 Page 3 British Council was a memorable feat. Zealand Music Commission and APRA. Based on signi" cant discussion in the February board The conference was totally successful and meeting, Stephanie Lees, Vicki Thorpe and Ivan Patterson took on the " nal development. true to its theme in any way you wish to Along with the super tee shirts it was a signi" cant launch at Cultural Chords in April. evaluate it; educationally, community wise Our relationship with MERC has now come into sharper focus. Later in the magazine you can and socially. Our congratulations also to read their report, and thoughts about future research directions. These could be of mutual the rest of the organisation team which bene" t to MERC and MENZA. Certainly I acknowledge the goodwill from MERC for the work supported our board members. It bodes MENZA is doing. From our perspective gaining evidence to support advocacy issues is simply well for the two TRCC initiatives planned in mandatory in the current ministry environment.