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Tune Me in Themenza Magazine tUNE mE iN TheMenza magazine O CTOBER 2017 Volume 12 Number 3 in this issue... a tribute to Phil Garland, strategies for Year 10 & 11 students, Orff Inspiration in Many thanks to Salzburg, Jazz Festival stories and more . our major sponsor MusicEdnet October 2017 tUNE mE iN is published by: tUNE mE iN MENZA: Music Education New Zealand Aotearoa. It is the professional magazine for all New Zealand in this issue . music educators. MENZA has as its vision: 3 Editor’s Comments - Amy Ryan Making Education brighter through Music. 3 Chair’s Comments - Tim Randle MENZA maintains a website: www.menza.co.nz 4 Choosing Repertoire for School Choirs - David Squire The postal address is: MENZA PO Box 36314 8 ORFF Inspiration in Salzburg Northcote Auckland 0748 10 Survey Findings and Strategies - Dr Rachel Swindells 16 Mutes Work Better When They’re Dented - Dr David Lisik MENZA Board Members Tim Randle (Chair) - Auckland 18 Turning Musical Passion into a Career [email protected] - Southern Institute of Technology Martin Emo (Deputy Chair) - Nelson/Marlborough 21 The Times, They Are A-Changing - Cathy Martin [email protected] Tim Carson (Past Chair) 22 International Society for Music Education [email protected] (ISME) Update - Linda Webb Phil Pegler - Wellington/Lower Hutt 24 Regional Reports [email protected]; [email protected] Judith Bell - Canterbury 28 Tribute to Phil Garland - Judith Bell [email protected] 29 The Colours of New Zealand Selena Bercic - Northland - Deborah Peter and Grace Smith [email protected] Chris Moore - Auckland 33 Professional Profile: Rohan Hill [email protected] Amy Ryan - Hawke’s Bay [email protected] Andrew Stopps - Wellington [email protected] Jeni Little - Auckland [email protected] MENZA Advocacy Subcommittee: Celia Stewart Tim Carson Judith Bell The Editorial team encourages reader feedback. If you have any comments or experiences that relate to articles Linda Webb published in Tune Me In, please mail or email them to Abby (MENZA ISME National Affiliate Representative) Sisam, the MENZA Administrator at [email protected] [email protected] These may be printed in the next edition of the magazine or published on the MENZA website. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of the MENZA Board and the Tune Me In Editorial team. The Editorial team request that sources are rightfully acknowledged in all MENZA publications. Where it is For advertising enquiries, contact the Administrator, felt a breach of this protocol may have occurred this can be Abby Sisam at [email protected] notified to the editor or directly to the writer. MENZA has an Editor: Amy Ryan expectation of ethical practices in the matter of disclosures. Typeset and Printing: ISSN 2381-9987 (Print) Uniprint, 161 Albany Street, ISSN 2381-9995 (Online) Dunedin EDITOR’S COMMENTS Thank you to the contributors who have provided the articles and photographs to be enjoyed in this, our last, edition for 2017. Featured on the cover are the expressive singers of Euphony, one of the choirs directed by David Squire, who has written a helpful article in this edition about choosing repertoire for school choirs. Also pictured on the cover is Christoph Maubach, leading participants at the Forest and Whenua workshop held in Auckland in August. Also featured on the cover are Year One Southern Institute of Technology Bachelor of Contemporary Music students playing at their 2017 Kids Concert. A special tribute to Phil Garland, written by Judith Bell, has also been included to celebrate the life of this beloved music educator. Other articles to enjoy in the spring sunshine are about strategies for Year 10 and 11 students, jazz festival stories and regional reports from around the nation. Amy Ryan We welcome your articles and photographs of interest all year, but if you would like to feature in our first edition for 2018, please submit your contribution before the 24th of March 2018. If you are submitting photographs, please send these as separate attachments (tiff format is preferred). Members of the MENZA board put in a tremendous effort in collaboration with TRCC to organise the Make Some Noise conference in Wellington. A sincere thank you to everyone involved who helped organise an amazing line up of speakers and workshops. We look forward to publishing photos and articles from this invigorating event in the next edition of Tune Me In. All submissions are welcome, so feel free to send in your photos and comments. Nga mihi, Amy Ryan CHAIR’S COMMENTS Term 3 has finished and what a term it has been! So many wonderful events with student success celebrated at festivals and competitions around the country. I am always thankful for the immense work put in by teachers, parents and external providers in creating extra opportunities to showcase the skill set of our students. It was also great to meet so many of you at the ‘Make Some Noise’ MENZA conference. A hearty thank you to the committee for organising such a fantastic event. Special thanks to the presenters who travelled from around the country and overseas to host specialist workshops and share their expertise, innovations and methods of teaching. I, like everyone I have spoken to, left invigorated and excited, ready to share ideas and refine my practice. For me, it has also been a chance to step into my new role as Chair of the MENZA board. I am excited and humbled to hold this position and look forward to the journey ahead. I (and MENZA) owe a huge debt of gratitude to Tim Carson, who Tim Randle steered MENZA strongly with his leadership and professionalism. It is also worth mentioning the strong contributors on the board and the wonderful administration support from Abby Sisam. Nga mihi, Tim Randle Win with MusicWorks and MENZA! Congratulations to Makaira Waugh, the arts kaiako at Te Ara Whänui Kura Kaupapa Mäori o ngä Köhanga Reo o Te Awa Kairangi in Lower Hutt. Winner of the July 2017 $300 MusicWorks voucher prize draw! As a special offer for MENZA members, MusicWorks are giving away a $300 voucher* in each issue of Tune Me In! It is super easy to enter, all you have to do is create an education login to the MusicWorks website. Plus, there are loads more prizes to be won, including a Yamaha C40 guitar worth $229 for your school, one to be won every week until the end of the school year. So get your MusicWorks Education login today to access the full MusicWorks online catalogue, with a helpful support service - and go in the draw to win prizes every week! *The October Issue Tune Me In $300 MusicWorks Voucher Prize Draw is only available to current MENZA members. To enter the competition, the MENZA member must have an education login for the MusicWorks website. The winner will be drawn on 30 October 2017 and notified by email. An announcement of the winner will be published in the next issue ofTune Me In. Tune Me In October 2017 Page 3 CHOOSING REPERTOIRE FOR SCHOOL CHOIRS - David Squire Over the past few years, as I have travelled the country taking workshops learning a piece without the intention of performing it, as the learning with many types of choirs, I have come to the realisation that these three itself can be a beneficial musical experience. crucial aspects determine how a choir can continue to develop: Choirs preparing for festivals such as the New Zealand Choral Federation’s 1. The quality and skill of the director; The Big Sing are required to diversify when it comes to their repertoire, 2. The quality of vocal technique; and so make sure that you choose an array of pieces from several genres. An 3. The quality and suitability of the repertoire. entirely gospel programme can get rather monochromatic – as can an I am predicting there are choral directors who will look at number entire programme of nineteenth century German lieder. Spice it up with three on this list and smile wryly. Choosing appropriate repertoire is a a variety of works – different genres, moods, tempi, languages, nationalities, real challenge and will either set the choir up for a rewarding time or dynamics, subject matter, etc. a mediocre time. About this point in the year, my school choirs begin VOCAL RANGE to disband for exams and I start looking around for repertoire for the Horses for courses. Picking repertoire where the sopranos sit around following year. If you think this is a time-consuming exercise, rest assured a top A for long periods of time is risky. Young voices can get damaged, that it doesn’t get any less so with experience! However, as you are and it’s unlikely they will have the maturity to sustain melodic lines in exposed to more music, you develop a clearer idea of what works and this register anyway. Remember that the majority of your female singers what doesn’t. If you have found this a dreaded chore, or even a fearful are probably not real altos, and most of your male singers are not real one, here are a few ideas that may help to guide you. tenors ready to belt out a top B. Having said that, younger singers will RESEARCH sometimes need encouragement to use the upper half of their range in Finding good repertoire takes preparation, so set some periods of order to develop strength of tone in this region, and this is an important time aside for this. I spend a fair bit of time on sites such as YouTube, area of vocal development.
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