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Lessons 

Interesting and intelligent media found on the Internet...
  • to spur the educational imagination, and
  • to energize pedagogical creativity in music education.
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Image: "Secrets of the Creative Brain" from The Atlantic, Nancy C. Andreasen, July/August 2014
We are All Musical 
Visit this site for ideas by current music education students of Arizona State University and the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts who support young people being creative and musical. 
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Mr. Rogers Lessons

Mr. Rogers Introduces Kids to Experimental Electronic Music by Bruce Haack & Esther Nelson (1968)

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…to provoke our students to break through the limits of the conventional and the taken for granted, we ourselves have to experience breaks with what has been established in our own lives; we have to keep arousing ourselves to begin again." Greene, Releasing the Imagination 

Cage Lessons

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Image: John Milton Cage, Wikimedia Commons

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How to Get Started: John Cage’s Approach to Starting the Difficult Creative Process


Toward the end of his career, composer John Cage wrote, performed, and recorded a project on “How to Get Started.” 

Listen to samples from the recording and scroll through the different tasks found on “howtogetstarted.org."  Imagine how Cage’s project might occur in a music ensemble or within a musical classroom.  Imagine the whole process using improvised rhythms, pre-constructed melodies, prepared pianos, mashed tunes, spoken word poetry, etc. Imagine students improvising and creating music on such topics of beauty, social justice, robots,  etc.  


Creativity in Action


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