Sector Focus Resources: Creative Music in Education
This is a collection of videos profiling what creating music looks like in five different music programs across Canada. The videos demonstrate creative exercises, games, warm-ups, and ideas for lessons, units, and courses. The teachers and students also reflect on what role these creative practices might have in disrupting the colonial patterns still often central to institutional music education.
Doug Introduces the Project
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Here are some ways that five different teachers create with their students. We hope you find something you could try with your students and/or inspiration to dream up other possibilities
Improv & Warm-up
Starting Well with Pre-School Virtual Choir
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Improvising to a Graphic Score
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Empty Repeating Canvas
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Improvising/Building a Groove
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Creative Notation
Group Composing from Symbols with Band Students
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Improvising to a Chalkboard Graphic Score With Some Traditional Notation
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A Lesson For Using Playdough As A Score!!
Student Composing Using Their Own Notation
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Remaking Repertoire
Connection Repertoire to Daily Life
(Pre-school Virtual Choir)
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Group Composition Using Band Repertoire Excerpts
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A Unit For Learning From An Elder Musician In The Community
Gucho Hin (Ancestor’s Song) — Dennis Shorty
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Noe responds to Dennis’ story
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Jack responds to Dennis’ story
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Owen responds to Dennis’ story
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A New Model For Secondary Music
Nathan and His Students Demonstrate Their Studio Music Program Process
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Nathan and His Students Discuss What Success in Music Education Mean to Them
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Nathan and His Students Demonstrate Their Popular Music Band Program
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Nathan and Jason Discuss the Role of Creative Music Making in Education
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How do these teachers and students define success in music education?
Katherine and Her Students Discuss What Success in Music Education Means to Them
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Edmee Reflects on What Success in Music Education Might Mean
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Keshini Reflects on What Success in Music Education Might Mean
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Nathan and His Students Discuss What Success in Music Education Mean to Them
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What brought these teachers to creative music? Why do they see creating in music education spaces as important?
Edmee Reflects on the role of Creative Music Making in Education
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Keitha Reflects On This Project And The Role of Creative Music Making In Education
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Katherine Reflects on the Role of Creative Music Making in Education
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Nathan and Jason Discuss the Role of Creative Music Making in Education
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Keshini Reflects on the role of Creative Music Making in Education
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Credits:
- Co-directors: Doug Friesen and Louise Campbell
- Consultants: Edmee Nataprawira, Katherine Fraser, Keitha Clark, Keshini Senanayake and Nathan Gage
