{"id":22985,"date":"2024-02-07T02:49:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T02:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/singteach.nie.edu.sg\/?p=22985"},"modified":"2024-02-07T03:03:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T03:03:01","slug":"teaching-musical-improvisation-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/singteach.nie.edu.sg\/2024\/02\/07\/teaching-musical-improvisation-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Musical Improvisation Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"message-box-wrapper yellow\">\n<div class=\"message-box-title\">Answered by Associate Professor Lum Chee Ho and Dr Ng Hoon Hong (Visual &amp; Performing Arts Academic Group, NIE)<\/div>\n<div class=\"message-box-content\">\n<p><strong>Q: How can teachers teach musical improvisation skills in secondary school, especially for special needs students?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/0027432119870584\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> (Ng, 2019) presents a three-pronged strategy for teaching collective improvisation in the general music classroom through structured surround soundscapes. This strategy consists of <em>developing socio-interactive skills<\/em>, <em>shared understanding<\/em>, and <em>personal music vocabulary in collective improvisation<\/em>. In the music classroom, these concepts should be consciously developed in tandem through hands-on means to foster effective and meaningful collective improvisation. The structured surround soundscape project presents one such way this may be enabled using the three-pronged strategy to nurture ensemble improvisers who can engage in fluent socio-musical conversations in real-world contexts.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that students within our mainstream secondary schools who have particular disability needs will also find such strategies useful. It is a matter of the music teachers taking into consideration the particular needs and making adjustments accordingly or having more scaffolding steps to assist in making these activities accessible to the students.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>Reference<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ng, H. H. (2019). Structured surround soundscapes: A three-pronged strategy for effective and meaningful collective improvisation. <i>Music Educators Journal, 106<\/i>(2), 51-57.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[514],"tags":[111,244,355,513],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/singteach.nie.edu.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/singteach.nie.edu.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/singteach.nie.edu.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singteach.nie.edu.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singteach.nie.edu.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22985"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/singteach.nie.edu.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22987,"href":"https:\/\/singteach.nie.edu.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22985\/revisions\/22987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singteach.nie.edu.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/singteach.nie.edu.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singteach.nie.edu.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singteach.nie.edu.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}