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This is the second in our series about the four learning style pairs of Isabel Meyers-Briggs and how they apply to music teaching and learning. (see Learning Styles: Introversion ~ Extroversion 7/27/10 and Learning in Style 7/26/10). Do you have an Intuitive or a Sensor in your life? Do you yourself have strong tendencies toward . . . → Read More: Learning Styles: Intuitives ~ Sensers  Politics aside everyone. Click here for the video of Condoleessa Rice plying Mozart and she and Aretha Franklin performing together during last Tuesday’s Philadelphia Orchestra concert. In Learning in Style, I promised a series detailing the four style pairs of Isabel Meyers-Briggs. Of course the names have been changed to protect the innocent. Seriously, most of us are a glorious mix of both halves within a pair. However, when a person is heavily weighted toward one side of a pair, that . . . → Read More: Learning Styles: Introversion ~ Extraversion It’s time for Baroque Part 2 of my Out of the Lines series. If you haven’t already done so, I suggest reading Out of the Lines: Romanticism Parts 1 & 2 and Method Books vs. The Baroque Part 1. I will, as always, try to give you as much information as possible for each piece . . . → Read More: Method Books vs The Baroque: Part 2 Ok everybody out there who considers video games worthless- perhaps a rethink is in order. Check out this article and interview with the first American ever to win the International Bach Competition in Germany, 14 year old Hilda Huang. Be sure and click on all the links in the article for videos and in depth . . . → Read More: Bach = Nintendo??? While updating Piano Addict this morning I ran across this link: Why Intelligent People Fail. Many of the characteristics for failure rang a bell for me. I prefer my glass half full so let’s look a little at Learning Styles and how to help intelligent people succeed. I’ll give an overview in this post and then . . . → Read More: Learning in Style Here’s a link to 5 minute how to videos on every imaginable tech topic: Learn it in 5. The link takes you to a video on Skype which you can use to video chat with experts and colleagues, provide and receive feedback on repertoire, or even give long distance lessons. And, yes, you can get . . . → Read More: Learn It In 5 This coming year, I am scheduled to teach several classes of older and adult advanced beginners and I need some easy but satisfying classical arrangements. Plus, I have some intermediate teenagers in my studio who are motivated by a good mix of classical music and current pop music. So, I’ve been shopping and going through . . . → Read More: Easy Classics & Current Hits Musical MythBusters Here is a Concerto in C4 from the team. In her book, Bird by Bird, Ann Lamott writes about the common fantasy view of successful writers as people who “sit down at their desks every morning feeling like a million dollars, feeling great about who they are and how much talent they have and what a great story they have to tell; that they . . . → Read More: I’m a TFDer: The Play in Playing the Piano In Romanticism Part 1, we talked about the profound technical and musical demands made by romantic repertoire. Romantic subject matter is also often gothic in nature, dealing with mature love and the darker side of fantasy, which makes for experiences that are both inappropriate for and far beyond young students. The chart below lists many . . . → Read More: Out of the Lines: Romanticism Part 2 Check out Hey Ladies: Being a Woman Musician Today and That’s What She Said 700 Musicians Tell It Like It Is from NPR Here are a couple of links to stories about the competition. I thought that the reasons given for competing were really interesting. Rising Stars Compete with Passion World Piano Competition Produces One Clear Winner The Artist as Wizard Approaching Experimental Music Blurring the Edges In this second installment of my series on thinking out of the lines about method book pieces, I am going to tackle the Baroque Era. Because of my unwillingness to blog from behind bars, actual images from the scores won’t be used. I will try to give you as much information as possible for each . . . → Read More: Method Books vs. The Baroque Part 1 Check out this great collection of vintage music/piano posters from Ads Past. If you are taken to their homepage, just click on the category music in the left bar.  |
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