by

Giuseppe Bellantone

(Music Teacher)

I am a musician and singer who plays a variety of instruments including guitar, piano, drums etc…and a variety of singing styles. Including Opera.

* I am a composer and producer of music. I have recorded 4 solo albums and produced a further 6 more and I am one of 4 dept. of education employees who is a full writer member of the Australian recording and Production Association (APRA)

*Prior to becoming a Primary School teacher, I was a TAFE Lecturer in Music and Arts, I ran a drama school and was a professional performer and Director and producer.

*I have won several awards in music and drama (31) and as a founding member of THE CHILDREN of the TREES (Now City Farm) .Along with Roseanne Geddes and Jo Tucker, I was runner up in the 1991 WA Children's Advisory Council Awards. I also won a WAAPA Grant last year to test the effects of the use of music stimulus under Naplan style conditions.

This is my 19th and maybe my last year in teaching.

The impetus for Orff Schulwerk lies in children's natural group play behaviour, utilising various its components to awaken and begin development of the potential musicality inherent in all human beings.

The tonal and topical content is to come from the child's surrounding tradition. Rhythm is drawn from the child's native language forms the foundation. The Schulewerk approach provides a pedagogical model, that enables hands-on music making by participants of whatever age or experience.

My role is to design and facilitate activities appropriate to the participants that will enable success, satisfaction, and—very important—joy and delight in the experience. There is opportunity for individuals of greater talent to utilize these abilities, but the emphasis is cooperative group effort.

[It] is never music alone; it is bound together with movement, dance, speech & viewing.

it is a music that one must make himself, into which one is drawn in not as listener, but as participant.

It is unsophisticated, knows no large forms or grand structures; instead it consists of small series forms, ostinatos, and small rondo forms.

Elemental music is near the earth, natural, physical, to be learned and experienced by everyone, suitable to the child. (Orff 1973, p. 5)

Students read, notate, listen to, analyse, and describe music and other aural

information using the

terminology of music

Students apply vocal and instrumental musical skills in performing a varied repertoire of music.

They compose and arrange music and improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments, using digital/electronic technology when appropriate.

Students analyse the role of music in past and present

cultures throughout the world, noting cultural diversity as it relates to music, musicians, and

composers

Students critically assess and derive meaningfrom works of music and the performance of musicians according to the elements of music,

aesthetic qualities, and human responses.

Students apply what they learn in music across subject areas.

They develop competencies and creative skills in problem solving, communication, and management of time and resources that contribute to lifelong learning and career skills.

They also learn about careers in and related to music.

Timbre/tone colour (wind, string and percussion instruments)

Beats vs. Rhythms: through participation

Speed (tempo): through participationLoudness/softness or even silenceMelodic lines: through participationSound production: vocal &

instrumentalNotation and Music TerminologyExperimentation & Composition

Famous musicFamous composersForm in musicPictoral MusicMulticultural Music History of MusicMusic related

work/careers