! !"#"$%&'"()*(+,-.!(/01/! 1! "! • All primary schools have the Kiwi Kids Songs series - #5 has ‘Nature’ in a good key, ‘Dance all around the world’ (#10) and so on... Older students may enjoy songs in “Sweet 2”. There is the MOE’s Hirini Melbourne resource and in recent years, Kiwi Kids Songs #15 for heaps of Waiata. The Patea hit, “Poi E” is on Nature’s Best – available everywhere and universally liked as well, it made a big come back ‘cos of the film “BOY” ... (and in Sweet 2 with a lead sheet for year 7s up) Kiwikids Songs #16 – are all Pasifica songs Volume # 17 (Values) has Tim Finn’s “Couldn’t be done” and other goodies... • Get “Ihimaera” – this album created in !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! 2011 is awesome. All the lyrics are by Witi Ihimaera and set by some of NZ’s most talented artists, Including Kapisi, Ruia Aperahama, Victoria Girling-Butcher (Lupin), #$%$&'()$!*$+!,$(%(-.!/0123! Charlotte Yates and others : www.smokecds.com/cd/47401 /4-)5!2-!640'!3%(11'4478! This has great cross-curricula lesson possibilities – lyrics cf. prose discussions for • “Anika (Moa) to Zowie” - compile an A to Z starters. list of NZ recorded artists • Stream Kiwi Fm’s “31Bands in a Box” – (www.nzmusic.org.nz/nzartists has a good Yes happening again in 2012 - daily list for starters) interviews and performances with NZ artists... A similar exploration of NZ band names on the net – and archived. by number (1814, six60 …how many See : www.kiwifm.co.nz more?) (dial-up and broadband options) • Sing lots of great NZ songs! You might start with the songs written by • Study NZ POP history –Nature’s Best covers students and chosen for Hook Line and Sing- the decades very well over 3 CDs (and along on the 31st May; chosen as the song of there’s a DVD and the sheet music available NZ Music Month 2012, “21 Degrees”, or for most tracks). “Things to Remember- Huarahi Tika” • http://www.filmarchive.org.nz/readytoroll/ (2011) and “Made in NZ” (2010). These The NZ Film archive has 100 classic kiwi clips are available as mp3 downloads with lead How has music video changed? sheets, different keys, backing tracks, ukulele parts at several websites: • There’s information on lots of NZ artists at www.nzmusic.org.nz/education/resources www.nzmusician.co.nz (on-line archives) and www.tunemein.co.nz (the online home of the artist sections of the commission’s site, MENZA) www.nzmusic.org.nz/artists • NCEA level 1 – “Rocket MAN” study see • Students might discuss and/or present an “arts on line” – a unit written for you to use analysis of the music of their favourite NZ about NZ rock history. artists. (Ask them to analyse the musical • Take a look at: elements/characteristics – tone colours (what http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/culture/music- instrumentation is used) tempo, (speed) or month feel, the production techniques, the structure and 31 reasons to love NZ Music Month... of the song, the mood/meaning of the lyrics, great NZ music history back again every day genre...) on this site in 2012 so do take a look ! ! 9! • www.kiwihits.co.nz/hitdisc/catalog • Auckland Schools – check out the APO & See and hear the latest. Useful for tracking NZ MUSIC IN MAY: Ross Harris Cello down NZ classic pop hits in the back Concerto (3 MAY) REMIX 31 May, will be catalogue or checking out what’s current. very special. It’s in the Auckland Town Hall. For the first time in the four years of the • “Untouchable Girls”, THE TOPP-twins doco– Remix project the full APO will be involved in the music, the (recent) history of NZ itself… the performance and the guest artists are Bastion Point, Rob Muldoon …the humour DJCXL (who’ll be DJing throughout), Frisko (explore musical comedy- are they (aka Alphrisk), Tyree and Ermehn will all be forerunners to The Conchords?...) The performing along with longstanding members “Untouchable Girls” song score is in Sweet2. of the Remix crew JEM and The DVD is widely available (and often Anonymouz. Graffiti crew FDKNS will also discounted). ‘Honky Tonk Angel” album has be involved drawing in real time on tablet many of the old favourites - came out in computers, and the results will be projected 2010. on screens as they work. The APO is auditioning dancers (Friday 4 May) to • Flight of the Conchords – the DVDs and CDs perform on the evening. NZSO are everywhere – students will enjoy these very much ... and they do excellent genre • Made In NZ Every year the NZSO perform concerts parodies for music analysis... “Frodo” is in specifically programmed to engage students Sweet2 + lead sheet, not to mention Bret’s from Year 5 through to Year 8. 2012 Oscar-winning song on you-tube: Napier Thursday 10 May, 10am http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5iN0Q Hamilton Friday 11 May, 11am NT6Uk&feature=related • Virtual Orchestra class trip (no bus cost!) • Arts online into Music 1 – updated and From the LEARNZ team. For 2012 ; During the online Classroom Music in Y1-3 and also field trip you will experience the build-up and 29 music resources in the digi-store performance of scary music from the past and present in a concert with a Halloween theme, performed by the http://artsonline2.tki.org.nz/resources/units/music Christchurch Symphony Orchestra - the CSO. Suitable for _units/into_music_1/ all the Arts: Music - Sound Arts Levels 2-4, Visual Arts Levels 2-4, Drama • “The little Black Kiwi Song Book” (Wise http://rata.learnz.org.nz/summary.php?vft=makingmusic Publications, 2007) has more than 120 NZ 124 songs – lyrics and chords – oldies and recent artists like Scribe and Evermore. Rock on May! –Schools getting together • Easy player (piano) series has put out for Songwriting Workshops with great Music Brooke Fraser hits …(Dave Dobbyn, Commission mentors around the country… Crowded Houses, Bic Runga, Split Enz also • 28 – 29 April (just not enough weekends in widely available in print music) May!) at the Waikato Music Expo – Seth Haapu & Priya Sami present songwriting • Visit your local public Library – take the workshops at Claudelands. class. Most libraries really ‘pull out the stops’ • Rotorua Schools – 1st and 2nd MAY – in NZMM – you and your students may be workshops at Rotorua Lakes High (NZMC surprised by their vast collections & displays mentors - Jimmy Xmas and Lisa Crawley) of music resources; books, CDs and sheet contact HOD, Chris Pascoe to attend. music. • Invercargill – May 1 - Girls Rock! hosted at Southland Girls, NZMC Workshop Leaders, • NZ Contemporary Classical – don’t forget Annah Mac, Liv McBride and Anna VanRiel all the MOE “Into Music 1-4” books and Contact NZMC/Michael Buick CDs have heaps of examples. Listen to • 11 MAY Christchurch Schools: in conjunction some well-known (living) composers like with MEC presenting ‘Hook into Sound’ (for Gareth Farr and Eve de Castro-Robinson. teachers) at Riccarton, while over at Hillmorton, “Me hanga te ake waiata!” (for • Magazines: the best of kiwi competition students) with NZMC mentors leading online http://ripitup.co.nz/static- workshops. content/best-of-kiwi ! !"#"$%&'"()*(+,-.!(/01/! 2! :! • Gisborne 21May: “Me hanga te ake Nga Tae, Pacific Curls, Tiki Taane … You’ll Waiata!” a cluster of schools at GGHS with find the instruments are used in a NZMC mentors, Maisey Rika, Jimmy contemporary way by many artists... (on the Christmas & Tama Waipara. Ihimaera album too). Horomona Horo • Wellington: “Me hanga te ake Waiata!” at demonstrated these at Cultural Chords the Pipitea Marae 25 MAY: workshop conference 2010 (for video of this see leaders from NZMC: Tyna Keelan, Kirsten te www.tunemein.co.nz/news ) Rito, Ria Hall, Rio Hemopo and others... Find in our resource section a useful pdf of all Workshops aimed particularly at Pasifika the Maori Language NZMC resources found and Maori students & exploring possibilities in the Sweets and Making Music. with elements in the SFPB comp • Study how the NZ music industry operates. Contact us at the music commission to Email NZMC ([email protected]) for free participate. copies of THE MAY BOOK 2012, up to date • Northland – June 10 at Forum North we are music industry information. planning something extra special re. • Students might design their own “Play more workshops for students (OK stretching May a NZ Music” campaign poster incorporating little but we are a small team!) the ‘bulls eye’ – brainstorm the positive economic and social outcomes of promoting • Secondary schools – don’t forget to use the NZ music and discuss WHY we have a “New “Making Music” (interviews and music of 40 Zealand Music Month”. Take a look at some NZ musicians), “Give it a Whirl” DVDs (not to statistics re. music sales in NZ (see the NZ mention Sweet! and Sweet 2) Some are on Music Commission website resource section for www.nzmusic.org.nz/education to stream. the statistics) • Write some new songs/music – get students • Technology! Music is full of opportunities to to write their own! For e-copies of “Song incorporate this aspect of the curriculum – writing tips from NZ Musicians” and the Charlotte • Remember, Music is the most important subject in the curriculum – make Yates edit – any teacher can no apology – you can teach and learn anything with and through Music! do this with a whole class... (You can knock off the key competencies, literacy, numeracy and all the - check out our other learning areas in one lesson not to mention a month) educational resources at www.nzmusic.org.nz/resources ! designing and making instruments, recording, broadcasting, making music videos, setting up Song Comps - There are heaps for students a website ... track the demise of the “78”, the to enter this year.