tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post4374881832957912890..comments2024-01-01T16:01:35.711+00:00Comments on Dick Puddlecote: Give It A Rest ... Please?Dick Puddlecotehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-15619432904105113492011-10-12T13:40:50.558+01:002011-10-12T13:40:50.558+01:00Your music classes at least left an impression Dic...Your music classes at least left an impression Dick or you'd have forgotten all about them.<br /><br />Weekend Yachtsman, I'm going to look into that one about Advanced Highers not needing the skill of manuscript reading. That's appalling. The changes must have been in the last 15 years or so because until I do know every child who sat Higher Music (not the advanced Higher), was required to have a recognised qualification in at least one instrument.subrosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151702590329788260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-64187947532130591492011-10-11T22:49:07.652+01:002011-10-11T22:49:07.652+01:00Have been on the same tour for the last few weeks....Have been on the same tour for the last few weeks... I agree the schools 'seem' so much more engaging - artwork, design and tech projects, stuff we used to call 'sewing' on display all over the place(and some of it very good indeed). <br />Nevertheless, when I got to the geography/science area (they seem to roll subjects one into the other these days) I could not stop myself from grilling the teacher as to the level of brainwashing my daughter *might* be subjected to regarding 'global warming'... I think I am already marked out for the naughty chair ..dunhillbabenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-19790692304408691622011-10-11T12:01:57.588+01:002011-10-11T12:01:57.588+01:00My youngest passed Advanced Higher music (that'...My youngest passed Advanced Higher music (that's the highest level of school exam in Scotland, for those who don't know), and not at the lowest pass-level either, <i>without being able to read music</i>.<br /><br />This tells us all we need to know about modern "music" education, does it not?Weekend Yachtsmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04262853091154005651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-88267332130771451642011-10-11T10:01:02.837+01:002011-10-11T10:01:02.837+01:00Dick, don't knock the South African Gum Boot d...Dick, don't knock the South African Gum Boot dance. It has roots in the African tribal war dances as well as early Hollywood musicals a la Fred Astaire.<br /> cf: Johnny Clegg, Juluka.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-36205059497324537782011-10-11T08:11:03.379+01:002011-10-11T08:11:03.379+01:00Anon @ 00:18: Yep, that's the way I see it too...Anon @ 00:18: Yep, that's the way I see it too.<br /><br />AE: No, the kids can actually play instruments. OK, we have only seen them operating upturned oil drums so far, but they <i>are</i> playing something. ;)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.inspire-works.co.uk/about-us-2/" rel="nofollow">Here you go</a>, banned.Dick Puddlecotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-76690026151725585692011-10-11T06:08:28.113+01:002011-10-11T06:08:28.113+01:00Any other information on the "Education Provi...Any other information on the "Education Provider" Private Company, another of Blairs Third Way state funded not-exactly-a-charity?bannedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02406037760273820029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-66776614674646518882011-10-11T04:25:52.829+01:002011-10-11T04:25:52.829+01:00Actually, DP, I'm slightly impressed. I though...Actually, DP, I'm slightly impressed. I thought you were going to say that music classes had devolved to covering how to use iTunes and not much else.Angry Exilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02491082312193274360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-50215250496055020632011-10-11T00:50:00.509+01:002011-10-11T00:50:00.509+01:00At secondary school in the, er, early 60s, our mus...At secondary school in the, er, early 60s, our music teacher used to play orchestral works to us on the record player - I think it was a Hacker with a Garrard SP25 deck - and get us to try and guess the instruments. Her favourite sarcasm? "That, girls, was a piano."<br /><br />(Had to post this as the sign-in thingie is "Halli" = "Halle Orchestra. Geddit?)Lysistratahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10193876192173490810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-36740476068912004362011-10-11T00:18:33.195+01:002011-10-11T00:18:33.195+01:00"In short, modern music classes are still irr..."In short, modern music classes are still irrelevant to future development. They're just more right-on and ideological in being so."<br /><br />Grind, grind, grind. Rub, rub, rub. Everything and everywhere, all the time and ceaseless - cultural de-indoctrination, cultural re-indoctrination.<br /><br />Out with the British, in with "the world".<br /><br />Getting it all spit shined and ready for when the one-world-leader is set to take-over.<br /><br />(Out with the normalization of smokers, in with the normalization anti-smokers fits this procedure too BTW, just in case nobody's quite noticed it yet or oh-so-believing otherwise.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-7890051270739142442011-10-11T00:12:35.273+01:002011-10-11T00:12:35.273+01:00Presumably, if they're asking you to pay, you ...Presumably, if they're asking you to pay, you have an option.<br /><br />Remember - "Just Say No" to drums ... :DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-10247061641159956842011-10-10T22:10:43.245+01:002011-10-10T22:10:43.245+01:00I Think i must have been a bit over exuberant when...I Think i must have been a bit over exuberant when i was at primary music class,because i was taken off the blocks and put on the Triangle.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-36462964449589539782011-10-10T21:51:46.906+01:002011-10-10T21:51:46.906+01:00Well, my favourite musical instruments are in fact...Well, my favourite musical instruments are in fact steel drums and bag pipes, it's just NOISE and I LOVE IT! <br /><br />But only when played outdoors, it has to be outdoors. It's like AC/DC but without the tricky chord changes.<br /><br />My third favourite instrument is "coal train going past", that's quite impressive as well.Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.com