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Teaching secondary music
Teaching secondary music

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Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Gary Spruce.

Grateful thanks to Milton Keynes Music Service for kind permission to draw on and amend materials from the Certificate of Music Educators’ module materials written by the author of this course, http://www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/ schools-and-lifelong-learning/ music-faculty-community-learning-mk/ certificate-for-music-educators [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] .

Grateful thanks to the Times Educational Supplement for kind permission to draw on the materials written by the author for the ‘Enriching the primary curriculum: music’ course, https://www.tes.com/ institute/ music-cpd-primary-schools.

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The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course:

Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity.

Course image

© courtesy Jason Kubilius

Figures

Figure 1: Image courtesy of Gillian Howell, Australia. Crowd participation at the Big Jam, Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2010

Figure 2: Honored/dreamstime.com

Figure 3: Echo/Getty Images

Figure 5: © BASTIAAN STABBERS/iStockphoto.com

Figure 6: With kind permission from Yorkshire Youth and Music.

Figure 7: Emilio Labrador. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Videos

Bugs video clip: courtesy of Trinity College London, www.trinitycollege.com

Class Instrumental video clip: courtesy of Trinity College London, www.trinitycollege.com

Scales Doh video clip: courtesy of Trinity College London, www.trinitycollege.com

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