Singing Matters
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Singing Matters by Patrick Allen (music educator)
, which won the Times Educational Supplement
/Educational Publishers Council Secondary Schoolbook Award in 1999, is the most influential and widely used classroom singing
resource in the United Kingdom
. Published by Heinemann in 1997 it broke new ground in the following ways:
Singing Matters was followed by Developing Singing Matters which extended the range and repertoire of the earlier publication. Composing Matters, by Patrick Allen and published by Heinemann in 2002, applied Allen's practical, hands on and aural methodology to classroom composing in a series of 24 projects. Patrick Allen is an Advanced Skills Teacher
working at Ifield Community College in Crawley and won the Guardian
Award for Teacher of the Year in a Secondary School in 2004.
Patrick Allen (music educator)
Patrick Allen is the English author of Singing Matters , which won the Times Educational Supplement Schoolbook Award in 1999. He also won The Guardian Award for Teacher of the Year in a Secondary School in 2004...
, which won the Times Educational Supplement
Times Educational Supplement
The Times Educational Supplement is a weekly UK publication aimed primarily at school teachers in the UK. It was first published in 1910 as a pull-out supplement in The Times newspaper. Such was its popularity that in 1914, the supplement became a separate publication selling for 1 penny.The TES...
/Educational Publishers Council Secondary Schoolbook Award in 1999, is the most influential and widely used classroom singing
Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
resource in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
. Published by Heinemann in 1997 it broke new ground in the following ways:
- It employed a tessituraTessituraIn music, the term tessitura generally describes the most musically acceptable and comfortable range for a given singer or, less frequently, musical instrument; the range in which a given type of voice presents its best-sounding texture or timbre...
accessible to most pupils. - It made frequent use of popular music, world music and folk music.
- It employed accessible methods of enabling harmony and part singing.
- It provided a methodology for rote methods and aural learning as a way of involving all students.
Singing Matters was followed by Developing Singing Matters which extended the range and repertoire of the earlier publication. Composing Matters, by Patrick Allen and published by Heinemann in 2002, applied Allen's practical, hands on and aural methodology to classroom composing in a series of 24 projects. Patrick Allen is an Advanced Skills Teacher
Advanced Skills Teacher
Advanced Skills Teacher is a role in a maintained school in England and Wales. Advanced Skills Teachers are judged through external assessment against a range of criteria to demonstrate excellent classroom teaching practice...
working at Ifield Community College in Crawley and won the Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
Award for Teacher of the Year in a Secondary School in 2004.
External links
- Patrick Allen's website
- Heinemann website
- TES article about Singing Matters
- http://www.teachingawards.com/2004/catwinners/Further_Info.asp?NominationID=2816&RegionalPositionID=2&RegionID=8Teaching AwardsTeaching AwardsThe Teaching Awards is an annual teacher awards ceremony in the United Kingdom.- Process :Every year, all schools across the UK are invited to nominate their most outstanding headteachers, teachers, teaching assistants and governors. Anyone can make a nomination. Nominations are then endorsed by...
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