How can I decide what is the first step in tackling a project? It can be an immobilizing feeling. If I go down the ‘wrong’ path everything could be wasted effort or a washout of results. Perfectionists don’t like to be inefficient. Everything matters and backtracking is messy. So, since I was born to two… Continue reading My Garden Grows
Author: leahnellis
Leah is a 36-year veteran in the field of music education, teaching students kindergarten through college age: general music, choral ensembles, curriculum design, folk songs, and classical vocal performance.
What’s a recapitulation?
My first musical love was singing with family: harmonizing in the car, singing side-by-side in a church pew, joining chorales and ensembles to sing classical and popular pieces, making up corny jingles, and composing music to honor individual family members. I thought every family did that sort of thing. What I have learned over my… Continue reading What’s a recapitulation?
The Seven Seas, uh C’s, no, make that Eight!
I love alliteration and old expressions. So, if someone is said to have “sailed the Seven Seas,” well, they’ve been around a bit. They know a lot about a lot. In my class, I want students to know a lot about a lot, not just the aural sense of sound. I put some graphics up… Continue reading The Seven Seas, uh C’s, no, make that Eight!
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