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Visualizing Music

I’m always interested in the ways that people visualize and represent music. As a field, we can often be very Western standard notation-based. I’m increasingly interested in digitally mediated ways of visualizing sound and music. I discuss some aspects of this in my chapter Inter/trans/cross/new media(ting): Navigating an emerging landscape of digital media for music education. If you are interested in the topic of music visualization, I also highly recommend Webb’s articles Music analysis down the (You) tube? Exploring the potential of cross-media… Read More »Visualizing Music

Should knowing how to read music be an essential requirement for children learning music? A response. . .

The National Association for Music Education recently shared the following twitter message (tweet) via its twitter account: Should knowing how to read music be an essential requirement for children learning music? http://t.co/mGB7ptrotE #musiced via @SinfiniMusic — NAfME (@NAfME) February 18, 2015 I offer an extended excerpt from my chapter Learning with digital media and technology in hybrid music classrooms in the forthcoming book Approaches to Teaching General Music: Methods, Issues, and Viewpoints, edited by Carlos Abril & Brent Gault,  as one… Read More »Should knowing how to read music be an essential requirement for children learning music? A response. . .

Notation Software Discussion…

James Frankel is encouraging people to post about their preference between the notation programs Sibelius and Finale. If you use one of them and have an opinion you would like to express, head over to his post and add a comment. If you have been thinking about using a notation program and are curious what other people think it might be interesting to read the comments that have already been added. I’ll throw in an extra question and ask: “How… Read More »Notation Software Discussion…

Technology in music education in the eschool news

The company eschool recently featured an article on some ways technology is being used in music classrooms. The article mostly focuses on several software titles that are commonly used in music classrooms that make use of computers and software. In my own classroom my 6th and 7th graders are just starting to make use of FLstudio to create music. One great thing about the software is how it works so well with the way I teach my students how to… Read More »Technology in music education in the eschool news