Recent Articles from MusTech.Net:
Online Best Practices: Celebrating Britten with Friday Afternoons
Every once in a while, I stumble upon an online resource that truly exemplifies best practice in terms of the intersection of music, education, and technology. It is pretty rare for me these days to find anything new, but when I do I feel like shouting from the rooftops to fellow music educators. I’m [...]
First Performance for My Elementary Instrumentalists
Today will be the first performance for my elementary instrumentalists. We title this performance our Performing Arts Showcase because we showcase the students who are participating in extra-curricular ensembles, such as our philharmonic, our musical theater class, and in the past, our young chorus, our older chorus, and our jazz band. This showcase also features [...]
Top 12 Jazz Christmas Albums – (and another dozen too!)
I love Christmas and I love Jazz. Frankly, I love most Christmas music, but I listen to the jazz renditions of it the most (no surprise there for those of you that know me…). There are very few postings available on the Internet about this VITAL and ESSENTIAL mix of Christmas and music genre, [...]
Teach it to Learn it
I have just completed a five-week course in Sibelius 7. I have learned an amazing amount about the program in those weeks, and I have a new-found appreciation for everything that can be achieved with this outstanding piece of software. Every week after class I came home totally enthused about all the new possibilities [...]
When Nature Makes Your School Year “Crash and Reboot”
This post is partly therapeutic and partly related to music education. I preface this post by stating a few things: 1) We were lucky when it came to Superstorm Sandy hitting NJ. Even though my family and I went for 13 days without power, our home and my school were not damaged and our friends [...]
The Future of Band Music Publishing?
In my humble opinion, if there is any aspect of music education that remains firmly footed in the traditional model, it’s band. That’s not a bad thing. As a former band director myself, I believe that we are creating some incredible performing ensembles, and band directing at all levels has become a position with very high [...]
An Elementary Music Educator’s Response to “The iPad in the Music Classroom: Useful Tool or Expensive Toy?”
Dr. Jim Frankel recently wrote an interesting and thought-provoking post titled “The iPad in the Music Classroom: Useful Tool or Expensive Toy?” In this post, he poses several questions, some which include how iPads are being implemented and the purposes of these implementations. Jim’s article is a must-read for every music educator who is thinking about [...]
