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TITLE: Music Ed Mentor Podcast #67: Copyright
SOURCE: Curated
FORMAT: Podcast
DATE: March 2, 2020
Curated from Smartmusic’s Music Educator Blog – by Elisa Janson Jones – https://soundcloud.com/user-436402853/episode-67-copyright This episode is all about copyright. As we all know, you can do anything you want with music you create, but in this episode we’ll give you some very much needed clarity about what you can and cannot do with music you didn’t create. Copyright has been…
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TITLE: No-Fail Beginning Band Retention Activities
SOURCE: Curated
FORMAT: Article
DATE: February 24, 2020
Curated from Smartmusic’s Music Educator Blog – by Marcia Neel – Nothing is more important to the success of our music programs than retaining the students who are already enrolled – particularly the beginners. We have to teach the beginners as if they have a scheduled performance at Carnegie Hall. In my previous post, I shared the S.M.A.R.T. approach to…
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TITLE: THE WHY OF IT ALL – Nottelmann Blog Post #200!
SOURCE: Curated
FORMAT: Article
DATE: February 18, 2020
Curated from BandWorld – by Dr. Tim Lautzenhauser – Our 200th Post! Short but sweet, Dr. Tim weighs in with this reminder of why we do what we do. Have you ever stopped to think WHY we do what we do? WHY do we dedicate our time, our intellectual energies, our creative talents…ultimately OUR LIVES to the world of band directing? What…
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TITLE: Tonettes, Song Flutes, Flutophones, and Precorders
SOURCE: Curated
FORMAT: Article
DATE: February 15, 2020
Curated from BandWorld – by Howard Fosdick – An article on cheap plastic flutes? Surely I jest! Actually, no. There are a whole host of reasons to familiarize yourself with these instruments — even if you never play them. Perhaps the biggest one is simply that they’ve introduced tens of millions of American schoolchildren to music. You probably remember tooting…
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TITLE: Conducting Matters! Simple Steps to More Meaningful Expression
SOURCE: Curated
FORMAT: Article
DATE: February 14, 2020
Curated from BandWorld – by Paula Crider – Ensemble conductors, read these inspirational thoughts from a legendary conductor on how to improve your ensemble’s expression through conducting. Doubtless this will find dedicated teachers totally immersed in the challenges of another school year. I hope all will agree that we owe it to our art to constantly strive to improve our…
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TITLE: Belting 101: How to Help Your Students Use Their Full Voice
SOURCE: Curated
FORMAT: Article
DATE: February 13, 2020
Curated from JW Pepper’s CUED IN – by Erin Guinup – When I was an undergrad, I was told that belting would ruin my voice. I shunned the music I loved and focused solely on building my voice for opera. At that time, most of the voice educator community scorned contemporary commercial music, and few people were teaching it or…
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