Dalcroze: using movement, song and creativity to enhance musicianship
Simple ways into secondary singing
Multiple factors impact singing experiences, including the approaches taken, the environment, repertoire, expectations and the purpose.
Activity: Explore Pitch Notation
Try these fun activities over several weeks to develop understanding of pitch and introduce musical notation using a simple call-and-response song.
Sing it to know it
Learning musical concepts is always easier when we explore them through making music, rather than just considering them theoretically.
Cracking the code
We all have thousands of melodies and songs in our heads that we can hum or sing. And yet, many people judge themselves harshly and wrongly as ‘unmusical’ because they can’t read music, or more specifically one notation system: staff notation.
The elephant in the room - getting your students to sing
At some point in your teaching career you may have had to deal with young people (or other teachers) who aren’t keen to sing.
Singing – the fast track to building music in your school
Why is it sometimes so difficult to put singing at the heart of the musical life of a secondary school?
