March 2025 Music News

Hello Friends! Happy Spring?! Fake Spring? Real Spring? Who knows!

Thanks to everyone who came out to my sessions at Teachers’ Conventions. If you have any questions that weren’t answered, email me at: amanda.clark@fineartsata.ca

I’ve created a site to collect speaker proposals for the Fine Arts Council. If you are interested in presenting, please follow this link to submit a proposal. These presentations would be for the 2025-2026 school year. Most would be online so that even teachers in remote areas can attend but if your session is better in person we can discuss that possibility. Selections will be made and speakers notified by the end of October 2025.

I’m going to be starting some mini units on composing soon. I thought I would share them. Feel free to make a copy and adjust as you wish. We will be composing using:

• simple melodic patterns: stepping up and down, skips, jumps

• rhythmic patterns: each grade using the rhythm for that curriculum

• Form: ABA, ABACA

• compositional techniques: motive, retrograde, inversion, rhythmic shift

LINKS:

1.        Rhythm composing

2.        Melodic Composing slides

3.        Boomwacker ABA Colour and Compose