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Music Services musiceducationuk.com Summer 2011 / Launch issue 1 Music The view from Wales Musical Futures in Australia A Day in the Life: Su Hart Education Developing the Kodály legacy Digital Learning UK News, Reviews & Listings bringing everyone together Going up in smoke? Why music education in England is on a burning platform £3.95 published termly for musicians who teach Become a part of the MU, the largest organisation representing musicians in the UK, to benefit from an extensive range of FREE benefits, services and training. The benefits for those who teach include: The MU’s teaching collaborations include: — £!"m of Public Liability Insurance cover. — An online Child Protection Awareness — Access to CRB checks. Training (CPAT) course, in partnership with — Teachers’ pack including advice leaflets the NSPCC, ABRSM and MusicLeader, and support material. at http://platinum.educare.co.uk/music — Continuing Professional Development. — A partnership with the UK’s largest online — Legal assistance & support. database of tutors, MusicTeachers.co.uk — Access to an accredited Teaching Diploma. — A partnership with the National Union — A specialist MU Teachers’ Section. of Teachers (NUT), working together to — £#,""" of instrument insurance. promote music education in the UK. For more information, please email [email protected] or visit themu.org LA or were in some cases just Music Service Plans. The 2009 plans which www.musiceducationzone.net Music Education UK Contents REGULARS 38 State of the Union SPECIAL FEATURE Partnership and collaboration 8 Music education in Wales: with the Musicians’ Union a warning for England? THE CENTRE POINT 5 Editorial 20 Editorial 6 News Technology Editor Tim Hallas welcomes readers 16 A Day in the Life Community musician, performer 21 It’s technology but is it music? and choral leader Su Hart Brian Duncan’s whistlestop tour for novices 32 Q & A Anita Holford’s report reveals a Jazz pianist, composer and tutor 22 Music Medals go digital chequered picture of provision Huw Warren Charanga Music have taken across the country ABRSM’s resources online 42 Listings 24 Review: the Korg Monotron The new synthesiser is put through SPECIAL FEATURE FEATURES its paces 12 Apocalypse now? 24 The Apptitude test 1 Beatwave 26 The Apptitude Test 2 NanoStudio 8 World Stage Festival Party time in Bristol REVIEWS 27 Musical Futures in Australia 39 Yes You Can Play Great Rock Guitar Why students are queueing up Does our reviewer Robert Ahwai Down Under agree? Marc Jaffrey’s call to action for 29 Developing the Kodály legacy 40 Inside Music the music education sector in László Nemes’ keynote address at An Early Years resource from The England. Warning: contains musiclearninglive!2011 Voices Foundation strong language. 34 East, West, home is best 40 Hearing the Voices of Creation Music teaching in the UK and South A creative multimedia resource on East Asia compared understanding faiths and the Next issue published in October 2011 36 Instrumental partnerships environment through poetry, Subscribe to Music Education UK Yamaha’s music education work prayer, story, dance and music at www.musiceducationuk.com Music Education UK magazine: Summer 2011 | musiceducationuk.com 3 ! ow e n in or “I believe out of all the music education organisations you are best nl s f al o ate rm k l r -fo oo cia on tes B pe N a placed to really serve teachers and the ‘industry’ as a whole.” S ry/ leg a de rim r P cto se musiclearninglive!2011 delegate musiclearninglive!2012 The fifth national musiclearninglive conference is the first in London March 12 & 13 2012 (Mon & Tue) Institute of Education, London Jude Kelly KEYNOTE SPEAKERS James Frankel Jude Kelly is Artistic Director of Britain’s largest cultural James Frankel is an Adjunct Faculty member at Teachers institution, Southbank Centre and former Chair of Culture College Columbia University where he teaches courses and Education for London 2012. on music technology. Jude is an award-winning theatre director. After founding He is a widely published author with books including Battersea Arts Centre she joined the RSC then took over Teaching Classroom Music in the Keyboard Lab, The the helm at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. As both Artistic Teachers’ Guide to Music, Media & Copyright Law & (as Director and CEO of the country’s largest regional co-author) YouTube in Music Education. He is Managing theatre, she established a popular ‘centre of excellence’. Director of SoundTree which provides music, audio and video technology solutions for educators. Among her many successes in theatre, Jude’s production of Singin’ in the Rain transferred to the Royal National Before taking the helm at SoundTree, he was the Theatre and won an Olivier for Outstanding Musical Production. She also directed Ian instrumental and general music teacher at the Franklin Avenue Middle School in Franklin McKellen in The Seagull, Patrick Stewart in Johnson over Jordan and Dawn French in Lakes, New Jersey for 11 of his nearly 15 years in New Jersey Public Schools. When We Are Married. He is on the Board of Directors for the Technology Institute for Music Educators (TI:ME) Jude left Yorkshire to found METAL, an artistic ‘laboratory’. It provides a platform for and is the current president of the Association for Technology in Music Instruction (ATMI). collaborations between art forms and strategic projects which affect the built environment, In addition to his writing, Dr Frankel is a highly sought-after speaker and clinician at local, people and communities. national, and international music education events. Jude represents Britain on cultural matters at UNESCO. She has also jointly chaired the musiclearninglive!2012 includes a strand focussing on music technology Curricula Advisory Committee on Arts and Creativity with Lord Puttnam. Currently, she sits on in education. the cultural board at LOCOG, following her chairmanship of the culture team at London 2012. About the conference musiclearninglive! conferences are for EVERYONE involved in music education and the richness and diversity of the programmes reflect that. You’ll find hands-on workshops, live performances, case study presentations, inspiring keynotes and controversial panel discussions – combined with plenty of time to network and meet new colleagues. In 2012, we’re coming to London for the first time. We are delighted to welcome as keynote speakers For further information – including details of special Jude Kelly, Artistic Director of the South Bank Early Bird offers, travel and accommodation – and to Centre and, from New Jersey, the dynamic music technology education specialist, James Frankel. register online, please visit our website: We also have strands focussing on world music, innovation through partnership, community music, jazz and music education in South East Asia. www.mll2012.com musiclearninglive!2012 is presented by Music Education UK | Zone New Media, Innovation Centre, Broad Quay, Bath BA1 1UD, UK | +44 (0)20 3303 0888 LA or were in some cases just Music Service Plans. The 2009 plans which www.musiceducationzone.net Music Education UK Editorial elcome to the launch edition of Music Education UK through private tutors) and limited choice in type, genre and magazine! After 10 years and 21 issues of Zone method of music-making’. Wmagazine, we thought we’d celebrate with a new name and a sparkling makeover. We hope you’ll agree the new name is Luckily, it’s not all doom and gloom as choral leader and forest apposite in the sense that the magazine now ‘does what it says on whisperer, Su Hart, and jazz musician and Royal Welsh College of the tin’ (Zone was great and we’re still published by Zone New Media Music and Drama tutor, Huw Warren, make clear in our regular but it was difficult for newcomers to find us on the net). As we’re features A Day in the Life (page 16) and Q & A (page 32). Add to that expanding into other territories (Singapore this year and Malaysia in a vibrant look at what’s on offer at Bristol’s brand new World Stage 2012), it seemed like the perfect time to make the change. Festival in July 2011 (page 18) and we hope you’ll agree that as long as music retains its ability to excite and inspire, there’s a lot to be Makeover-wise, we’ve gone for a cleaner layout with news and said for working in the music education sector. events published principally online at www.musiceducationuk.com. We’re publishing on iPad from September 2011 and you’ll be able On that note, I’d like to finish with two quotes. to find this and future editions of the magazine in the iTunes Store. László Nemes, Director of Hungary’s world-famous Kodály Institute, We’ve also introduced a digital learning supplement, The centre gave a keynote speech (published here on page 29) at this year’s point, edited by Music Technology Consultant for Hertfordshire musiclearninglive! conference in which he quoted Zoltán Kodály: Music Service, Tim Hallas. As well as his work for Hertfordshire, Tim writes a column for Music Tech magazine and is working on a book ‘What is the most important prerequisite for achieving success in on the practical use of technology in music education. In this first the study of music? I can answer that question with a single word: supplement, Tim reviews the Korg Monotron synthesiser (page 24) singing. But I can say it over and over again, three times if you like, and introduces regular feature The Apptitude Test in which he looks singing, singing, singing again.’ at what’s available for music educators in the world of Apps (page 26). We also have articles by Charanga Music’s Mark Burke on Su Hart’s description of her 20 years ‘on and off’ singing with digital ABRSM Music Medals (page 22) and Brian Duncan on music African forest dwellers, the Baka (page 16), includes the following: technology for the beginner (page 21).
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