Wednesday Inspiration

“Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.”

– Samuel Butler

About Samuel Butler

British author Samuel Butler is best known as the author of The Way of All Flesh, a semiautobiographical novel V. S. Pritchett called one of the time bombs of literature because of its incendiary critique of Victorian society and because Butler delayed publication until after his death. He was born in 1835 near Bingham. Rather than enter the clergy as many of his family members had, he became a sheep farmer in New Zealand for four years. He first gained fame with the satirical novel Erewhon. He died in 1902.

 

Don’t forget to enter to win the giveaway from Quaver Music! Click on yesterday’s post or Monday’s post and leave a comment to win!

 

Enter to Win!

Don’t forget to enter to win!!

**repost from yesterday**

The team at Quaver’s Marvelous World of Music would love to offer one lucky member of the South Florida Orff Association one Quaver DVD of the winner’s choice. Each DVD includes 2 episodes (about 15 minutes each), a Teacher’s Guide with hours and hours of teaching plans for both episodes, as well as access to 2 Online Quaver Classrooms – online teaching resources at QuaverMusic.com including Interactive Whiteboard Activities, Worksheets, Tracks and Musical Scores, Interactive quizzes and much more! You can find a list of the DVDs to choose from here!

Quaver would like you to know:

“The best way to wrap your head around Quaver’s 21st Century Resources for Teaching Music is through their Free Episode Sneak Peek. Visit QuaverMusic.com/Preview to register for a 72-hour Sneak Peek of one complete episode and all its corresponding teaching materials!”

To enter to win please a comment sharing your most memorable teaching moment of this year.  You have until Friday 7:30 am, to leave a comment on this post.  I will then use a random integer generator to draw the winner on Friday morning.

Give Away from Quaver Music!

Good Morning South Florida Orff,

The team at Quaver’s Marvelous World of Music would love to offer one lucky member of the South Florida Orff Association one Quaver DVD of the winner’s choice. Each DVD includes 2 episodes (about 15 minutes each), a Teacher’s Guide with hours and hours of teaching plans for both episodes, as well as access to 2 Online Quaver Classrooms – online teaching resources at QuaverMusic.com including Interactive Whiteboard Activities, Worksheets, Tracks and Musical Scores, Interactive quizzes and much more! You can find a list of the DVDs to choose from here!

Quaver would like you to know:

“The best way to wrap your head around Quaver’s 21st Century Resources for Teaching Music is through their Free Episode Sneak Peek. Visit QuaverMusic.com/Preview to register for a 72-hour Sneak Peek of one complete episode and all its corresponding teaching materials!”

To enter to win please a comment sharing your most memorable teaching moment of this year.  You have until Friday 7:30 am, to leave a comment on this post.  I will then use a random integer generator to draw the winner on Friday morning.

Friday Fun!

A few of our members attend an event last week with Quaver Music.  I just checked out their website and they have some great stuff! You might want to direct your students to http://www.quavermusic.com/Default.aspx where they can play free online music games.

Enjoy!

Do you use the Quaver materials in your classroom? How do you like them? Please share your experience with the rest of the members!

Singing Game Resource

As many of you are wrapping up your year, you are looking for new ideas to keep the students interested in these last few weeks of school.

You might find the following website helpful:

http://teachers.net/lessonplans/subjects/music/

Have you tried any of these plans? Have you used any of the plans as a starting off point for something new? 

 

Kodaly Downloads

Kodaly Downloads is a great website that is full of resources you may find useful in your teaching.

http://kodalydownloads.com.au/index.aspx

I subscribe to their e-newsletter and they sent a link for a free resource for teaching beat and rhythm.

http://kodalydownloads.com.au/strategies/a_strategy_to_teach_beat_and_rhythm.aspx

I hope you enjoy!

Ted Talk Tuesday

Don’t forget to enter the giveaway that I posted yesterday! The winner gets a free DVD from Quaver Music! Go to yesterday’s post to see more details.

Did you get a chance to watch last week’s Ted Talk?  It’s from a local (Michael Tilson Thomas from The New World Symphony)! If you didn’t you might want to check out this link:

http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_tilson_thomas_music_and_emotion_through_time.html

From: http://www.ted.com/speakers/michael_tilson_thomas.html 

Why you should listen to him:

As a conductor, Michael Tilson Thomas might be best known for his interpretation of the emotionally charged music of Gustav Mahler. But his legacy won’t stop at his Grammy-winning recordings of the complete Mahler symphony cycle with his home orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony. He’s also the founder of the New World Symphony, an orchestra that helps to educate young and gifted musicians as obsessed with their craft as he. Since its establishment in 1987, New World Symphony has launched the careers of more than 700 young musicians, and in its new Miami Beach concert hall designed by Frank Gehry, it’s bringing well-played classical music to a truly popular audience.

He’s the guest conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra — and the artistic director of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra (YTSO), a 96-member ensemble selected from online video auditions. Tilson Thomas conducted the YTSO at Carnegie Hall in 2009 and in 2011 in Sydney, Australia. And he’s the creator of the Keeping Score education program for public schools, which uses PBS TV, web, radio and DVDs, and a K-12 curriculum to make classical music more accessible. In 2010, Tilson Thomas was awarded the National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists by the US government.

Wasn’t that interesting! I loved what he said, ““The big difference between human happiness and sadness?  Thirty-seven freakin’ vibrations.”

Don’t forget to enter to win a FREE DVD from Quaver Music! All you need to do to enter to win, is to leave a comment on yesterday’s blog post about your most memorable teaching moment of the year.