(21 Sept) Grades 11 & 12 - Music [OPEN]
Class List
Nishikido Ryo (excused)
Tanaka Koki
Akanishi Jin (excused)
Ueda Tatsuya (excused)
Sakurai Sho
Arioka Daiki
Kamenashi Kazuya
Yasuda Shota
Uchi Hiroki (excused)
Aiba Masaki
Yamashita Tomohisa
Nakamaru Yuichi
Tsukada Ryoichi
Whilst waiting for students to drag themselves to his domain in the music room, Nino had written on the whiteboard:
Shakespeare wrote in Twelfth Night, “If music be the food, play on and let me have surfeit of it.”
Today, we will have an improvisation session to learn of the connection between music and its role in evoking and manipulating the human senses.
• Pick whatever instrument you like, or use whatever equipment you have (pencils, chopsticks, &ca, including your voice if you must) and create something.
• You may do this individually or in pairs.
• Create something musical.
• Present this ‘piece’ to the class.
• The class will offer its critique and share the experience of how the piece has touched them, moved them, made them feel and so on.
While other educators might baulk at Nino for his unorthodox teaching methodology, Nino believed in getting students to think and feel. The only way for them to do so was for them to experience the music on their own at some visceral level. Thus, with that in mind, he deliberately planned for his lesson to unfold in the manner of an “improv” music session.
As he waited for his students to stream in, Nino sat at the piano plucking the chords to the overture of Verdi’s Macbeth, changing the chords from an E to an F-flat to render the piece more sinister than it would have other been.
Nishikido Ryo (excused)
Tanaka Koki
Akanishi Jin (excused)
Ueda Tatsuya (excused)
Sakurai Sho
Arioka Daiki
Kamenashi Kazuya
Yasuda Shota
Uchi Hiroki (excused)
Aiba Masaki
Yamashita Tomohisa
Nakamaru Yuichi
Tsukada Ryoichi
Whilst waiting for students to drag themselves to his domain in the music room, Nino had written on the whiteboard:
Shakespeare wrote in Twelfth Night, “If music be the food, play on and let me have surfeit of it.”
Today, we will have an improvisation session to learn of the connection between music and its role in evoking and manipulating the human senses.
• Pick whatever instrument you like, or use whatever equipment you have (pencils, chopsticks, &ca, including your voice if you must) and create something.
• You may do this individually or in pairs.
• Create something musical.
• Present this ‘piece’ to the class.
• The class will offer its critique and share the experience of how the piece has touched them, moved them, made them feel and so on.
While other educators might baulk at Nino for his unorthodox teaching methodology, Nino believed in getting students to think and feel. The only way for them to do so was for them to experience the music on their own at some visceral level. Thus, with that in mind, he deliberately planned for his lesson to unfold in the manner of an “improv” music session.
As he waited for his students to stream in, Nino sat at the piano plucking the chords to the overture of Verdi’s Macbeth, changing the chords from an E to an F-flat to render the piece more sinister than it would have other been.