Teaching Notes - MTA Podcast
Teaching Notes - MTA podcast - Ep.79 - Melanie Spanswick, Cynthia Stephens-Himonides & Meggie Young, Darius Brubeck
Jun 8, 2023
Pianist Melanie Spanswick discusses her Women Composers anthology, while Cynthia Stephens-Himonides and Meggie Young explore music teachers' self-identity with technology. Jazz pianist Darius Brubeck shares insights on teaching jazz, improvisation, and composition, emphasizing the importance of making jazz relevant to young students and studying traditional jazz performances.
40:56
AI Summary
Highlights
AI Chapters
Episode notes
Podcast summary created with Snipd AI
Quick takeaways
- To introduce jazz to students, start with accessible and relatable music, emphasizing its relevance and cultural significance as a contemporary genre.
- When teaching improvisation, begin with the blues, emphasizing context, phrasing, rhythm, and tension-resolution alongside note choice.
Deep dives
Introducing Jazz to Students
To introduce jazz to students, it is important to start with music that is accessible and relatable to their age group. Starting with examples of jazz that they can connect with helps to establish that jazz has a great history but is still relevant and cool. Students should be exposed to the diversity in jazz and understand that it is a global music genre. Listening to jazz and understanding its cultural significance helps students appreciate it as a contemporary music. Emphasizing the importance of listening and understanding phrasing, rhythm, and form in jazz helps students develop their skills in jazz appreciation.
Remember Everything You Learn from Podcasts
Save insights instantly, chat with episodes, and build lasting knowledge - all powered by AI.
