Having observed the disquiet around London College of Music Examinations in recent months, Murray McLachlan caught up with the outgoing interim head and chief examiner at LCME, Dr Jonathan Drennan.
Bringing together like-minded creatives who are striving to make career paths in the Welsh music industry, Beacons Cymru has entered the second year of its Future Disrupters scheme, as Hattie Fisk...
What do you want from music education, and how best to achieve it? The ISM's head of external affairs, Colin Stuart, introduces new National Curriculum resources (for primary and secondary) that will...
Though there are many ways to approach the teaching of set works, it’s often the case that we stop once we feel students understand the work (well, once we feel they’re ready to take the examination)....
In this resource, we’ll look at some key, practical ideas for warming up singers. These include warming up the body; activating and warming up the breath; warming up the voice itself; and warming up...
My students might be resistant to classical music. How can I get them on side? I want to keep things practical, and don't want to turn my lessons into a music history lecture or old-fashioned music...
Sonic Pi is aimed at those new to computer programming, but powerful enough to generate really sophisticated music. In this resource, I provide some pre-programmed templates for musical activities....
In parts one and two of this four-part resource, we traced opera from the Renaissance and Baroque periods through to the Classical period. This month, we’ll see how the Romantic composers’ love of...
This resource has been inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement and the stimulus of recent events for cultural discussion in the classroom. Black composers have been notoriously overlooked in the...
Composition is one of the crucial components of any music curriculum. Students need to be given the opportunity to compose, and the guidance to succeed. They also need to see how composition links in...
