![]() Noteflight Learn allows the teacher to create online closed groups and give access to students to either comment on the score or to edit. I had been working with Noteflight but paid for the next level of Noteflight Learn so that I could create an online group for the Kedumba Composers. ![]() This was very cumbersome and it was a fortnight before students received feedback – also, the students had very little direct input into experimentation and manipulation of musical elements.įor this project with the Kedumba Composers, I wanted to find an online music composition app that allowed students to comment on and make alterations between each workshop and also give them a compositional tool that allowed them to see and hear the work in progress. I would take the suggestions back to my studio after each rehearsal and rework the score in my music publishing software at home, then re print parts for the next rehearsal. Now…… the next step what tools/resources or online space do we use to combine and organise our musical ideas?įor the collaborative arranging project in the Blacktown Orchestra, we were reworking one of my old arrangements for string orchestra – Chanson Triste, by Tchaikovsky. Six students from the string ensemble – violinists and cellists – were invited to stay back, bring their instruments and we would work together to compose a piece for the St Canice’s String Ensemble. The only time we had available to hold composing workshops was directly after the string ensemble at 4 PM Fridays. The violin teacher said: “Well…… we don’t have time in our violin lesson to compose, but Mr Rooke knows a bit about composing.” In term 3 this year, (2018) some of the students in the St Canice’s String Ensemble (A Catholic Primary school in Katoomba) were asking the violin teacher if they could learn how to compose on their instrument. It occurred to me then that arranging a piece of music in our ensemble together to see what works is a great collaborative project how the melody is harmonized, what makes a good accompanying pattern - bowed (arco) or plucked (pizzicato) strings etc. In a rehearsal of the ensemble The Blacktown Captivate Strings) I was conducting at the time, some of the students were asking me about having an input into the arrangement of the piece we were performing at that time. Several years ago, I wrote a blog post “Let’s Create, Not Replicate”. ![]() Guiding Question: How do we motivate students to want to create/compose their own music? And once they want to create/compose, how do we best enable them to notate and realise their creation/composition? Hint: It's best to listen to these videos with good speakers or headphones - or connect via airplay to a monitor with quality sound. ![]()
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