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Tag Archives: Music Education
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Music leaders choose their favourite from our Top 10
We invited colleagues from the music sector to pick just one from our Top 10 common needs for music hubs and SEN/D – and tell us why it’s especially important […]
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Framework experiments
In this post our Drake Music Associate Musician Gary Day shares his thoughts on the Youth Music Quality Framework and how he can utilise it in his work at Belvue, […]
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Top 10 Needs for Music Hubs & SEN/D Music Provision
Today we are releasing a document sharing the Top 10 needs Drake Music has identified for music hubs and SEN/D provision. This year we began a new Youth Music funded […]
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What is a TeachMeet?
You may have seen the word TeachMeet used in association with Drake Music at conferences and events and be wondering what it means. Here is a quick overview: A TeachMeet […]
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‘Inspire, support, agitate and share’: Reflections on Drake Music & Exchanging Notes
The first year of our Youth Music funded Exchanging Notes project was ambitious, involved many unknowns and experiments, yet was a real success in terms of participant enjoyment, learning outcomes, […]
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Exchanging Notes: A Musical Adventure in Ealing
Drake Music are lucky to be one of ten organisations that are part of Youth Music’s Exchanging Notes programme. Each Exchanging Notes project (a partnership between a school and specialist […]
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Mi.Mu Gloves – Work in Progress
As part of our Research and Development programme we are collaborating on the Mi.Mu Gloves project initiated by Imogen Heap. The gloves use cutting edge technology to create a wearable […]
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Figurenotes
Figurenotes is an alternative to conventional musical notation which has been used successfully by young people with learning difficulties (including some on the autistic spectrum) in Finland and Scotland. Figurenotes […]
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Working with Drake Music Artistic Development
A beginning: It started with a tweet and 2 years later the alliance is still going strong…… I answered a call out from Drake Music in early 2013 for disabled musicians interested in cross-arts collaboration and never imagined the journey it would take me on
