Music Teacher

In Bethlehem, the Bara'em Ghirass project draws children from surrounding refugee camps and villages to learn violin, oud, qanun and Arabic percussion
Features

Providing music education in Palestine and Jordan

In the community: Pedal Power volunteer Joyce meets RWCMD guitar student Tom Vine
Features

The RWCMD-Pedal Power partnership for guitarists

According to his daughter, the US composer William Grant Still (d. 1979) had a childlike spirit, which is evident in his Animal Sketches collection
Features

Exploring piano repertoire by Black composers

Features

Creating a library of instruments accessible to all

Cuts to extracurricular music activities have implications for social mobility
Opinion

ISM column: the unequal musical playing field

Gabriel Ward borrowed from Benslow a fine old English cello
Features

Benslow Music Instrument Loan Scheme

Celia Waterhouse, of the British Kodály Academy, leads SMA conference delegates through exercises to introduce notation by connecting it to pitch, pulse, rhythm and movement
Features

Music literacy: what's the future?

Children enjoy performing in a Christmas play. To make it successful, think carefully about the time available and the difficulty of the piece
Features

Nativity plays – a survey

Master of Music Therapy (Nordoff and Robbins) students, participating in group work. Lewis Murphy is second from the left
Health & Wellbeing

Mental health and wellbeing column: my training with Nordoff and Robbins

Features

Tech column: video assessments and capturing the performance

Review

Tech reviews: new products, October 2024

Spectral analysis: a spectrogram viewing audio signals, with time on the x-axis, frequency on the y-axis, and amplitude shown through brightness of colour
Review

Tech reviews: SpectraLayers 11