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Where To Get Ideas For Songs. Learning Through the Arts. View the videos below and don't forget to download the viewer's guide for more information and support.

Learning Through the Arts

The Wikisinger. Wintergatan - Marble Machine (music instrument using 2000 marbles) NZ Sign Singing. Musicians Mentoring in Schools Programme. Pin by Barnes Piano, LLC on Piano Teaching Games. Maypole Dancing - The Plait. Hot Scots drum line - 2011 - Nigel - Talent Show at LHHS. Here's how playing a musical instrument can improve a child's brain.

We know that the complex colonies of microbes that live in our guts affect our physical health - imagine trying to digest things without them - but new research now suggests that they also have a positive influence on the way we think.

Here's how playing a musical instrument can improve a child's brain

Previous studies have revealed that in mice, changes in gut microbe colonies appear to ease feelings of anxiousness, and can help control the levels of cortisol - a potent stress hormone - coursing through the body. And now a new study on humans by researchers in the UK suggests a positive link between our gut microbes and our mental health. By feeding volunteers packages of gut-friendly prebiotics - non-digestible carbohydrates that act as food for ‘good bacteria’ called probiotics - the team was able to change the way they process emotional information, making it easier for them to ward off anxious or depressed feelings.

This could be because the people who took the prebiotics were also found to have lower levels of cortisol in their saliva. Neural Correlates of Lyrical Improvisation: An fMRI Study of Freestyle Rap : Scientific Reports. In this study, we used fMRI to investigate the neural correlates of spontaneous lyrical improvisation by comparing spontaneous freestyle rap to conventional rehearsed performance.

Neural Correlates of Lyrical Improvisation: An fMRI Study of Freestyle Rap : Scientific Reports

Our results reveal characteristic patterns of activity associated with this novel form of lyrical improvisation, and may also provide more general insights into the creative process itself. It has been suggested that the creative behaviors could occur in two stages: an improvisatory phase characterized by generation of novel material and a phase in which this material is re-evaluated and revised1. The present study may provide clues to the mechanisms that underlie the initial, improvisatory phase. Our results suggest a model in which an elementary reorganization of brain activity facilitates improvisation and may generalize to other forms of spontaneous creative behavior. The widespread changes identified by the foregoing analysis are suggestive but incomplete. Music Education New Zealand / Aotearoa.

Seaquence. Beyonce and Justin Timberlake - single ladies. Music - The Arts in the New Zealand Curriculum. Music is a unique way of organising and making sense of sound.

Music - The Arts in the New Zealand Curriculum

It is a way of knowing that influences how we see the world, express our views of the world, and come to know the world. In music, emotion, intellect, and imagination are articulated through sound. Music allows us to express our feelings and ideas about ourselves and our place in the world. It can directly evoke emotional responses and capture the elusive essence of who and what we are. NZ Folksong * Maori Songs. Kia ora koutou Please forgive me for any errors here.

NZ Folksong * Maori Songs

If you can send me any corrections or additions to be added here, I would be most grateful. My hobby has been learning about songs of the rural white New Zealand way of life. I started this NZ Folk Song website to make information about these Pakeha songs available to others. But people kept e-mailing me to ask for information about Māori songs. To find out about different versions of old Maori songs, I search the NZ National Library's online database. NZ FOLK SONG * Purea Nei. Sesame Street: Bruno Mars: Don't Give Up. This Cover of 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' is Hauntingly Beautiful.

I'm Charlotte Church. And This Is How Women Are Routinely Demoralized by the Music Industry... - Digital Music NewsDigital Music News. The following speech was delivered at BBC 6 Music’s annual John Peel Lecture by Charlotte Church, who entered the music industry as a young teenager.

I'm Charlotte Church. And This Is How Women Are Routinely Demoralized by the Music Industry... - Digital Music NewsDigital Music News

Roughly 15 years later, her perspectives on the business have changed dramatically. “Thank you for coming to my lecture this evening. I’d like you to imagine a world in which male musicians are routinely expected to act as submissive sex objects. Picture Beyonce’s husband Jay-Z stripped down to a T-back bikini thong, sex kittin’ his way through a boulevard of suited-and-booted women for their pleasure. Or Britney Spears’ ex, Justin Timberlake, in buttocks-clenching hot pants writhing on top of a pink Chevy, explaining to an audience how he’d like to be their ‘Teenage Dream’. Katy Perry - Roar (Lyric Video) Royals - Cover By Sarah Stone (Cup Song Version) Call Me Maybe - Music with bottle. Music Units - Into Music 1 - Classroom Music in Years 1-3.

About this resource This Ministry of Education resource is an adaptation of the original book and CD Into Music 1, Classroom Music in Years 1 - 3, Learning Media (2001).

Music Units - Into Music 1 - Classroom Music in Years 1-3

In this online resource, the book has been updated and digitised to provide links to online resources and to reflect the New Zealand Curriculum (2007). The resource is written for all teachers of children in years 1 to 3 and may also be useful to adapt for other age groups. Shabooya roll call - Get On The Bus (1996) Music Lesson Incorporating Classroom Lessons. 2CELLOS - Thunderstruck [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

99 Red Balloons - played with red balloons.