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The
New Zealand music week we've come to know and love has expanded into an
entire MONTH for 2001.
Over the last
few weeks, commercial radio stations have been doing their share to increase
the amount of local sounds we hear over the airwaves. The B-Net student
stations have really gone kiwi with live interviews and gigs and some
stations have been playing 100 percent New Zealand music all day every
day for the month of May.
A buskers'
day hit the streets on Friday 18 May, and the Music Industry Commission
has been running a seminar series on the music industry in the four main
centres.
New Zealand
musicians are making their names nationally and around the world. Not
only are popular music bands like Shihad and Stellar making it big, but
opera singers such as Kiri Te Kanawa and Deborah Wai Kapohe, jazz exponent
Nathan Haines, composer Gareth Farr, percussion group Strike, and rising
stars Hayley Westenra and Oamaru's The Ross Brothers are also reaping
the benefits of musical success.
National Coordinator
of Music for the Ministry of Education Merryn Dunhill, an enthusiastic
supporter of music month, says learning music helps learning in other
areas, including literacy and numeracy.
"Learning in
music also creates audiences for the future, enhanced community involvement
in the arts, and opportunities for learning for lifelong enjoyment. Musical
activities bring families and communities together, providing strong identity
and a sense of wellbeing," she says.
"Through the
arts curriculum implementation, teachers around New Zealand are being
supported to strengthen music education for all students in our schools.
Music networking has never been so active with communities and agencies
working collaboratively to advocate for music as an essential discipline
for human development and national identity in the global market."
Music teaching
Taonga – The International Society for Music Education Regional
Conference is being held in Auckland from 1–5 July. Go to the
events section of the TKI arts community page (www.tki.org.nz/e/arts/)
and click on the NZSME conference link to find out more about the programme,
keynote speakers, and to register.
Learning
examples for the new arts curriculum are available on TKI's unwrapping
the arts pages, a part of the arts community (www.tki.org.nz/e/arts/),
including:
The
New Zealand Education Gazette Webguide for June 2000 (www.edgazette.govt.nz/webguide/79_11/)
collated some useful music sites.
The
University of Illinois has practical examples of how to use technology
in teaching music. At www-camil.music.uiuc.edu/mtt/default.htm
you can see examples of lesson plans, and student work for choral music,
general music, instrumental music, and high school music.
Links:
New Zealand music
New Zealand Opera
The National Business Review New Zealand Opera's education pages
(www.nzopera.com/education.cfm)
provide a beginner's guide, details of New Zealand Opera's schools and
outreach programmes, and some great music games.
The New Zealand Society for Music
The New Zealand Society for Music Education (www.nzsme.org.nz)
has details of conferences, competitions, and contacts for music teachers
and others interested in music.
New Zealand music
Visit www.nzmusic.com/default.cfm
for the latest on New Zealand music and the activities of the New
Zealand Music Industry Commission (www.nzmusic.org.nz/),
including a comprehensive list of New Zealand musicians online –
everyone from Annie Crummer and AKA Brown, to Letterbox Lambs and Lothlorien.
New Zealand on Air
Irirangi Te Motu New Zealand on Air (www.nzonair.govt.nz)
has a section explaining their strategy for supporting New Zealand music.
Music news
Catch up on the latest music news at http://entertainment.nzoom.com/music/
– they ran a series of features for New Zealand music month.
Student radio
Student radio is alive and kicking! Find out about its incarnation
in your neighbourhood (www.b-net.co.nz).
Strike
Strike, New Zealand's premier percussion ensemble, have been taking
their energetic and vibrant schools programme throughout New Zealand
(www.strike.co.nz).
Gareth Farr
Composer and performer Gareth Farr's website takes some time to
download, but if you have got a fast connection, visit www.drumdrag.com/
for some beautiful imagery, and information about Gareth's influences
and career path.
NZSO
The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra (www.nzso.co.nz)
site includes a concert calendar, player profiles, and news.
Creative New Zealand
Creative New Zealand (www.creativenz.govt.nz)
publishes some news on New Zealand music and the arts on their site.
Music publishing
Promethean Editions (www.promethean-editions.com/)
is a contemporary music publishing company located in Wellington, New
Zealand. The company publishes new music by established and emerging
contemporary composers from the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand.
Music in the New Zealand curriculum
Level One: possible activity.
Creating and drawing sounds.
Achievement objectives
Developing Practical Knowledge in Music
Developing Ideas in Music
Communicating and Interpreting Music
Creating different sounds from a single source
Resources needed:
Paper
Crayons
Lesson sequence
Demonstrate to the group all the different kinds of sounds that can
be made with a pencil by rolling, tapping, dropping, drawing.
Give each child a single sheet of paper, for example, newsprint, greaseproof
paper, brown paper. Get them to experiment with the different sounds they
can make, for example, tapping, flicking , ripping, rolling, screwing
it up,blowing, waving.
Students could describe the sounds they have 'found', or draw the sounds
using crayons and large sheets of paper. Ask each student to demonstrate
their found sound to the group.
Level Three: possible activity
Experimenting with sound contrasts
Achievement Objectives
Developing Ideas in Music
Communicating and Interpreting Music
Developing Practical Knowledge
Creating and presenting musical ideas using untuned percussion and
'found' sounds.
Resources needed
Copy of a fairytale that the students are familiar with
Untuned percussion instruments
Tape recorder
Lesson sequence
Read the story/legend to the students.
Discuss the moods and emotions in the story, for example, happiness,
anxiety, fear, surprise. Discuss how to represent these with the instruments
and found sounds. Talk about volume, tempo. Group students and ask them
to choose which instruments and found sounds would best represent the
mood they have chosen to portray. Regroup and retell the story/legend
using the instruments to create the 'mood' in the appropriate places.
Record the session.
Curriculum
statements
Music is one of the four disciplines in the arts curriculum, available
on TKI (www.tki.org.nz/r/arts/curriculum/statement/contents_e.php).
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