by Alyssa Cowell, The Catoctin School of Music More Music Activities for Quarantine! While we are all hanging in there waiting to go life as it was before COVID-19, here are a few more stay-at-home music activities to fill up the time! Music Scavenger Hunt: Look around the house and see if you can find instruments from different musical instrument families – look for household items you make musical...
Read More
Music has almost infinite braches of genres, this is an obvious thing but at the same time, it's a very fascinating fact, and something that surely makes music be very alive. It's a wonder to discover how these genres came to be, and how there is a constant movement of sounds and places which endlessly give birth to new ways to control sound. Some genres are...
Read More
In times of war, civil unrest and fear, music has always been a safe haven, no matter which time period, history has shown us that music has the power to bring people together. It's a beautiful image to have, that an aspiring musician writing some things in a small bedroom can potentially reach millions of people with very personal feelings that can touch other human...
Read More
There is more than just learning how to play an instrument, sometimes you can see musicians tune their instruments very easily or improvise like it's a walk in the park, well this has a lot to do with having a good ear, which can go as far as having perfect pitch which we will talk about later in the article. Many people would say that a...
Read More
Over the last couple months of this pandemic, education systems around the world have been shaken to their core. Teachers and students were forced to completely change their approach to instruction and learning and adopt what initially seemed like a cold, impersonal teaching model - virtual education. However, it has turned out that online teaching has been a fantastic opportunity for so many students and teachers to thrive. I wanted...
Read More