by Scott MCBIRNIE | Oct 18, 2018 | Grade 9, IGCSE, Music, Secondary Music
Grade 9 are coming to the point of polishing off the final product of their first adventures into composition. Using the stimulus of Scottish music we discovered a number of musical concepts and ‘tricks’ that we could incorporate into our own compositions....
by Scott MCBIRNIE | Sep 20, 2018 | Grade 10, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Grade 9, Music, Secondary Music
It is with great excitement and anticipation that the school bands have begun to rehearse fully this past week. Those students who are renting instruments through Talentz in Muscat have finally got their hands on the shiny new instruments which means that everyone is...
by Scott MCBIRNIE | Sep 7, 2018 | Grade 8, Music, Secondary Music
As a gateway into the traditional music of Indonesia, the Grade 8 class were presented with a journal entry of a musician who had observed this traditional music and taken notes of his findings and observations. From this the Grade 8 class (who split into 2 groups)...