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Miles, Michaela – Australian Journal of Music Education, 2020
Research has shown that an audience can make a great difference to a musical performance but limited research has explored this with primary school-aged children. Using an action research study, participants from a primary school choir, students in fifth and sixth class formed into a choir through a compulsory singing programme, were surveyed to…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Music Activities, Singing, Performance
Baker, William J.; Forbes, Anne-Marie; Earle, Jennifer – Australian Journal of Music Education, 2020
Formed in 1965, and now including around 150 players and seven ensembles, the Tasmanian Youth Orchestra (TYO) is the oldest state-based youth orchestra in Australia. This paper presents the findings from a 2018 survey of TYO participants, as one part of a broader qualitative pilot project into the perceived benefits of participation in TYO. Using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth Programs, Musicians, Music Activities
Lee, Daniel; Baker, William; Haywood, Nick – Australian Journal of Music Education, 2019
Research suggests graduates from music courses in Australian tertiary institutions typically undertake portfolio careers that include a combination of performing and teaching. Both of these activities could have ongoing artistic ripple effects on the musical communities the graduates inhabit. This paper reports on a qualitative post-graduate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Teaching Methods, Popular Culture
Watson, Amanda; Forrest, David – Australian Journal of Music Education, 2019
Successful House Concerts rely on an equal positive interaction between three groups of people: the musicians (or artists), the audience and the host, with the performance being the central activity. A concert facilitator may be engaged by the host to assist with organisation. Each has a participatory role to ensure that the House Concert…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Activities, Musicians, Community
Sealey, Lyndsay; Mitchell, Annie – Australian Journal of Music Education, 2019
Composing Territory is a research project with two main aims. The first aim is to identify optimal composition and arrangement techniques for choral works written for female singers from various linguistic backgrounds in the Northern Territory whose voices are undergoing pubertal changes. The second aim is the creation of twelve choral…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Singing, Music Activities, Females
Barlow, Sarah – Australian Journal of Music Education, 2018
Education in Australia is driven by measurement of progress. Music education, however, requires students to engage in creative and experiential tasks. This article will address the inevitable conflicts between these two by suggesting that measurements of student work in fine detail can be made within a practical and engaging classroom without…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Learner Engagement, Music Education, Foreign Countries
McCormack, Brittany A.; Klopper, Christopher; Kitson, Lisbeth; Westerveld, Marleen – Australian Journal of Music Education, 2018
Australia is a culturally and linguistically diverse country, with a large proportion of the population originating from non-English speaking countries. One of the significant challenges for non-English speakers living in Australia is the ability to verbally communicate in English. Twenty to 25% of children in Australian schools have English as an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Diversity, English Language Learners, English (Second Language)
Revisiting Video Data to Research Children's Involvement When Engaged in Purposeful Musical Activity
Acker, Aleksandra; Jobson, Sarah; Nyland, Berenice – Australian Journal of Music Education, 2017
This paper discusses the value of using video recordings to support reflective practice. We investigated how video can be used to revisit events to evaluate the teaching and learning experience. Video data were used in a child-initiated music project emerging from planned group activities by a music teacher. The quality of the children's…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Learner Engagement, Music Activities, Student Participation
Wilson, Emily – Australian Journal of Music Education, 2017
Musical Futures is an approach thought to make classroom music more engaging for students by drawing their outside musical lives into their school experiences. Consisting of complementary approaches arising from out-of-school contexts, Musical Futures incorporates the learning processes of popular musicians and community musicians. It is…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Activities, Teaching Methods, Music Teachers
Southcott, Jane – Australian Journal of Music Education, 2016
As a primary school student in the 1960s I learnt the recorder. This paper explores how the recorder became a staple of Australian primary school music programs. At that time recorders were comparatively recently revived Renaissance musical instruments that were adopted by music educators as a way for children and their teachers to engage in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Musical Instruments, Music Teachers
Voss, Brett – Australian Journal of Music Education, 2016
Education in a contemporary context increasingly requires students to engage with learning technologies. This can present a challenge to both students and teachers who at times struggle to engage with the technical processes involved in navigating these technologies. Outside of formal education settings, on-demand information facilitated through…
Descriptors: Music, Music Activities, Music Education, Production Techniques
Fung, Annabella – Australian Journal of Music Education, 2016
I am a Chinese-Australian musician-educator of over three decades. In this autoethnography, I act as an agent of change by presenting my life as a social project. This assists understanding of a larger relational, communal and political world that moves us to critical engagement, social action and change. Evolutionary psychology asserts that…
Descriptors: Music Education, Ethnography, Musicians, Music Activities