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A Musical Sentence

An instructional text about musical phrasing made into an acrostic poem A Musical Sentence Piece of the puzzle in the composer’s musical story How does one determine where it begins and ends? Revealed by melodic shapes and patterns, 2, 4, … Continue reading

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Assignment 2: Vocal Production (Jackie Nguyen/ Jay Michalak)

Jay did an excellent job presenting the lesson on vocal production. He was dynamic, energetic, and skillfully used analogies and modelling to help scaffold the academic language and concepts around vocal production. He also effectively used the graphic organizer to … Continue reading

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