Course: Foundations of Music Education

At the Cali School, Music Education internships often have a diary component which is used as a tool for thinking about music teaching and learning. In the middle of the pandemic, Jack Powers reflects on his experience of forming a family band beyond a mere description of what happened to consider why things may have happened, from a variety of perspectives. In relating a series of warm-hearted and sometimes humorous rehearsals, he muses on how the experience has brought his family together and changed his thinking about teaching.

Introduction from Jack Powers:

For my internship, I took 4 weeks to teach my 3 brothers how to play a song of their choice on instruments that they were not familiar with. For context: Alex and Luke are both 17 (identical twins), and Patrick is 12. Alex and Patrick play drums, Luke plays French horn.

The purpose of this study was to understand the role of digital music technologies in helping Nordoff-Robbins (NR) music therapists explore pivotal musical moments in therapy. C’airra and Claudia conducted their research in spring 2020, during the early phases of Covid-19, which necessitated an exploration of the imagery potentials and relational dynamics of online digital music instruments, techniques, and platforms from a music-centered perspective.

[3:00] What is a pivotal moment and what is its role in music therapy?
°Ú17:00±ÕÌýC’airra shares a song she wrote and the other participants help her explore it in sound
[31:00] C’airra provides a case example of a remix
[46:48] Claudia shares a case example
[1:03:25] What are the implications of this kind of research?