Compose a piece that changes time signature at least once every 4 bars

thanks walton

Things that should never be arranged for an elementary school recorder concert.

1. The Rite of Spring

2. Pierrot Lunaire

3: Also Sprach Zarathustra

4: Any Stockhausen opera

5: Holst’s First Suite in Eb

6: Overture to Candide

Add your own. Go!

Ein heldenleben

1812 Overture

Chopin Scherzo in Bb minor

Flight of the Bumblebee Entry of the Gladiators Pachabel’s Canon

Things that SHOULD:

Morning

In the hall of the mountain king

That whole suite really

Canon in D might be acceptable.

Sleighride

schoenberg verklarte nacht

stockhausen helikopter streichquartett

^^^ Barber of Seville

An expression mark that should be in more widespread use.

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Reblog if you want to people to come into your inbox and tell you what type of person you are to them - gardens? a sea storm? a sunrise that is brilliant and bold, or a sunrise that that is soft and pale with mist and promise? anything or everything…

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you’re right. gustavo dudamel would never

i propose a law that you can’t learn any instrument until the age of 10. we must rid the child prodigies. no more 7 year old violinist prodigies that can play x10 better than me

like, listen guys. i’m all for kids having a passion for music, but i already doubt my musical ability and child prodigies just ruin me and make me want to sit in a cave and not touch my instrument for 60 years

our school had a concert on today and can i just say everyone looks so hot in concert blacks especially my crush

i don’t think there’s a person on planet earth who doesn’t look attractive in concert blacks tbh

me honestly

me when  a n y  chamber music shows up on my playlist

but would u die for tchaikovsky?

i’ve already died for tchaikovsky. his gay ass killed me

concept: tchaikovsky feeding u to a pack of swans while the orchestra is warming up in the background.

A child is kidnapped. Outraged, the monsters living under the bed and in their closet vow to find them.

let’s obliterate all the common misconceptions about abuse, shall we?

feel free to add your own and i’ll rb!

I really think hospitals and doctors that work with pregnancy and pediatricians need to make more literature available for how to, ya know, work with kids?  Because the more conversations we have about spanking (and how it’s ineffective and harmful and does more bad than good), the more I realize that a lot of people don’t know the alternatives. Or like, anything about child development or where misbehavior stems from. 

So, as someone who went through childhood development classes in college, works with kids for a living, and knows multiple people who specialized in childhood education, here are some pointers when you are working with kids:

1. Model emotional response for kids. Children are learning how to recognize and respond to their own emotions. All the way up through high school, children’s brains are still developing, and the emotions they are learning to process become more complex. So with really young kids, the easiest way to help them with this is to model emotional self awareness and self care. 

2. Understand what causes child frustration and work to preempt it. 

3. Understand that kids are people to. They will get hungry, tired, an annoyed just like adults do. Sometimes you have to be flexible and give them time to self care. Talk to them, explain things to them, let them be people and not just dolls.  “Because I said so” is really unhelpful for a growing kid. “We can’t buy Fruit Loops today because we are already getting Frosted Flakes. We only need one cereal at a time.” is going to do you a lot more favors. “Don’t pick up the glass snow globe. It belongs to grandma and can break easy. She would be sad if we broke it on accident.” is better than “don’t touch that.” 

And look, no parent is perfect. No baby sitter, no teacher, no care taker is going to be awesome all the time. And no kid is going to be perfect. They will cry and have tantrums, and not be able to tell you what they need, and be stubborn sometimes. Sometimes they need space, or quiet time. Sometimes they need attention and validation. 

But kids learn from every interaction they have, so adults need to make the effort to show all the love, and patience, and empathy, and thoughtfulness we want them to learn. 

It honestly scares me how many replies on this post are basically “nah, hitting your kids is a good thing.” Like, fuck yall. Fuck all yall. Jesus.

Worth noting as an aspiring music educator because I might be working with really young piano kids 

Anyway spanking is a good punishment and there’s a difference between abuse and spankings

Hey, fuck you. Dont hit kids.

bye i love this

Man: Siri, what is 1 trillion to the tenth power? Siri: Calculation. The answer is one zero zero zero zero zero [continuing] Man: *starts beatboxing to the rhythm. Woman 1: *joins in* Woman 2: *starts singing to the rhythm*

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