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by Cynthia Richards
Books 4 for Violin, Viola, Cello have been completely revised. Rather than include materials only in the major keys, I found that the delay of gett...
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by Brendan brendan.anderson93@gmail.com
Harmonia Mundi is sung by faculty and students at the closing of every Intermuse Academy, and presumably at the closing of every other Kodály funct...
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by Brendan brendan.anderson93@gmail.com
My dad passed away in 1966 so he has been gone fifty-two years. I was reading his biography recently in preparation for a trip Cynthia and I were...
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by Brendan brendan.anderson93@gmail.com
This was a great year for the first-year violin class, 2017-2018, at the School for Strings. Here is their performance in the May concert.
Here...
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by Brendan brendan.anderson93@gmail.com
I am excited to start a new first-year violin/viola class for 2018-2019. Check out the results of last year’s class at the post entitled Concert o...
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by Brendan brendan.anderson93@gmail.com
Reading words and reading music have parallels.
Some people can’t read at all.
Some know what the letters say and they can sound out unfamiliar wo...
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by Brendan brendan.anderson93@gmail.com
Wondering what I might add to the fixed-do versus moveable-do debate, probably the best thing would be to relate my own experience in becoming a m...
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by Brendan brendan.anderson93@gmail.com
String teachers! Are you discouraged by a lockstep approach using the same songs over and over without a way to adapt the method to the needs of ...
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by Claude Richards
It’s been a long time since I posted on my blog, so here’s what’s new. Last year, after the school district decided to charge me a lot of rent for...
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by Claude Richards
The best way to describe this comparison is with a table and a few explanations. Each row in the table corresponds to the paragraph of the same nu...
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by Claude Richards
Until about 15 years ago, I had been teaching my own blend of Suzuki approach and traditional violin methods. But, I wasn’t satisfied with the res...
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by Claude Richards
One of the principal tools used in Kodály music education is the movable-do system of solmization, or solfege, or sol-fa which was originated by G...
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