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    • What is Musical Futures?
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      • Just Play
      • Everyone Can Play
      • Hear, Listen, Play
      • Find Your voice
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      • Musical Futures International Champions
      • Musical Futures International Champion schools
      • Online Teacher Networks
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      • Kuala Lumpur workshop
    • Workshops in Australia
    • Workshops in New Zealand >
      • Auckland workshop
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    • Workshops in The Middle East >
      • Dubai workshop
    • Workshops in the UK
    • Music consultancies
    • Musical Futures for Instrumental Teachers
    • About Our Workshops >
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      • Hosting an International Workshop
      • Hosting a Workshop in Australia
    • #MFLearn19
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    • Free teacher resource pack
    • Free Guide to Songwriting
    • Free Guide to Minimalism
    • Free Guide to Collaborative Songwriting in Soundtrap
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2/21/2019 0 Comments

Musical Futures International European Program - call for host schools

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Musical Futures International is seeking schools to host our popular 2 day open workshops in Europe in 2019.

Read on to find out what is involved in hosting and what we offer to host schools in return for use of their space, instruments and some help to promote our events locally and through their networks. You can also read about some our recent events hosted by schools including Harrow Shanghai, Nexus Singapore, Shrewsbury Bangkok, Alice Smith KL, Dubai College, The Bavarian International School and more!

If you are interested in getting involved then please drop our European Program Lead Anna Gower an email at anna@musicalfuturesinternational.org.

Hosts for open workshops are:

  • located in an area accessible to those travelling long distances with affordable options for accommodation available locally
  • located in a country and area where flight costs are likely to be affordable and accessible for delegates
  • located in an area where we are likely to attract 20 or more delegates due to a concentration of international schools locally or with access to existing networks
  • able to provide access to classroom space and instruments free of charge and in return for free staff places at the workshops
  • able to organise catering-morning tea, lunch and teas and coffee as required (which we will reimburse by invoice)
  • happy to help with some local knowledge by suggesting accommodation, local travel advice and recommendations for how delegates can spend their social time during the workshops
  • have access to local networks or contacts to help us to advertise the workshops 

Hosts for open workshops get:

  • up to 3 free workshop places for staff (with the option to extend to 4 if bookings exceed 25)
  • the option to share information about their school through our networks
  • logos and school information featured on our website and shared through our channels
  • the opportunity to write a guest blog for our news pages to be shared through our channels​

Musical Futures International supports open workshops by:

  • providing marketing flyers and information for sharing through school networks to support central workshop marketing campaigns
  • providing trainers to deliver the workshops
  • paying for catering 
  • being the first point of contact for delegates
  • managing information on the website
  • setting up and clearing away spaces leaving them ready for teaching
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2/21/2019 0 Comments

Musical Music Theory

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What is Mussila Music School and what has it got to do with Musical Futures?

Mussila Music School is a tool to learn the basics of music theory and link the musical ear to the written language of music. As well as teaching the basics of music in a fun and creative way, the Mussila Music School app and approach reinforces some of the core skills that also appear in Musical Futures: Everyone Can Play, our entry level offer for younger children.

Everyone Can Play incorporates activities that include I play, you play, listen then copy, take your turn, find, hear and keep a pulse and basic instrumental skills all of which are also nurtured in the Mussila Music School games through interactive exploration of the basics of music theory, especially through the use of rhythm, melody and timbres. 

We asked Musical Futures International Champion Felicity O'Halloran, teacher at Hamlyn Banks PS in Geelong, Victoria to explore how her students in grades 3-6 responded to being able to use Mussila Musical School and huge thanks to Felicity for providing some useful feedback on how they all got on!
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What did the students make of it?

My kids have just loved using this app. We start each lesson with Mussila Music School to help tune in and settle into learning  The children have very much enjoyed using Mussila Music School, working through the Islands, gaining enough diamonds to buy extra instruments to use in Mussila DJ and Mussila Jam. The app is challenging but not so much that students lose interest, become discouraged and no longer want to use it. The incentives such as gaining and earning diamonds is a great motivator.

Mussila is a good introduction to basic music theory, recognising different instrument sounds and learning to recognise rhythms and melodies. In the 6 weeks we have been using Mussila I have noticed the growth in their understanding of all these three of these areas.

Students have in particular enjoyed using Mussila DJ; this is pretty much every student’s favourite aspect of the app. They have enjoyed playing with the turntable, creating their own sounds and experimenting with sound, adding the effects and sourcing instruments/sounds that they might need to make the performance more interesting.
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How did students feel they benefited from using Mussila Music School?

  • Understanding melody and how it works.
  • Being about to recognise rhythms and use rhythm values better
  • The Highs and lows in music
  • Understanding rhythm values better
  • To understand the different tones that the different instruments make.
  • I can recognise instruments better and understand what they sound like
  • Nothing because I knew about all of them anyway. But Mussila has made me better at recognising instruments and reading and writing rhythms and melody.
  • I learnt, rhythm, melody and now I know what it is and I can recognise instruments and I’m really confident.
  • I learnt more about rhythms and melodies and how instruments sound
  • I learnt to notice and hear what the instrument is without looking at it
  • Listening to the melodies, rhythms and instruments has improved with my learning a lot.
  • Music is all about practice
  • I learnt how to tell what instrument was being played without seeing the instrument
  • I can read a rhythm from hearing it
  • I have learnt it is important to stay focused and practice in my learning to get better and something.
  • Learnt how to recognise instrument sounds and put them with the right instruments. I have learn to recognise rhythms and melodies by hearing  them
  • Practicing is important
  • New instruments, sounds understand rhythm values a lot better. I understand the highs and lows in melody.
  • I have learnt that it is ok to make mistakes, you learn from your mistakes and get better at what you are learning.
  • How to read the notes
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2/12/2019 0 Comments

Free Webinar - Introducing Soundtrap and MF Studio


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MF Studio is a collaboration between Musical Futures International and Soundtrap - an online music studio that through its education site SoundtrapEDU delivers many powerful and creative tools for teachers. 

MF Studio integrates Musical Futures unique teaching approaches with Soundtrap EDU’s powerful suite of online music production software. 

MF Studio has been designed to enable student creativity and particularly collaboration. The activities and resources initially focus on songwriting, composition, beat making, electronic music production as well as multi media like podcasts or adding music and sound to film projects.
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With SoundtrapEDU students can make music, create and collaborate with their friends -  wherever they are in or out of class - through Soundtrap’s ‘walled garden’ education platform.

The functionality includes drag and drop options through to more complex programming and arranging meaning that an entry point exists for those new to technology as well as the more experienced.

This webinar will be led by Soundtrap experts Adam and Pontus.

Its a free event you can join on the night or register to receive the recording for later viewing.

All participants will be able to access a FREE 90 day trial of SoundtrapEDU for use in their classrooms following the webinar.


After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
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2/11/2019 0 Comments

From the Classroom-iCAN Year 9 Musical Futures Lesson

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We can't get enough of this video of year 9 students at iCAN International School, Cambodia shared by their teacher and Musical Futures International Champion Joaan Foo.

Joaan has been a regular attendee at our Asia Intro, Recharge and Further Into MF workshops and has been able to share some inspiring stories about how embedding Musical Futures into her work at iCAN has had a real impact with students of all ages.

As always it is the individual musical stories of each student that sit behind this performance that show the importance of music  in school and the difference that programs like Musical Futures International can make to student engagement and musical and personal development as they progress through school.

We wish this group well with their performance to the whole school in the next few weeks!

Huge thanks to Joaan and her students for sharing this with us.
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2/7/2019 0 Comments

Musical Futures International comes to Europe!

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Our first Musical Futures International workshops took place this week at The Bavarian International School, Munich and marked the launch of our new Musical Futures International European Program which we are excited to be implementing across 2019.
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Working with teachers from 3 different schools in the city, our Head of training and Development and new European Program Lead Anna Gower put together 2 days of workshops that explored the pedagogical basis of Musical Futures, some of our fantastic audio/visual resources and how these can be cherry-picked to teach to outcomes devised by both teachers and students themselves.

On day 2, the group unpicked how parameters applied to composing and improvising can affect the way teachers approach creative music tasks both as learners and as teachers and the implications of such approaches for their students. The final task, to write an original song produced a fantastic outcome and you can watch back the live video in our Musical Futures International teacher group on Facebook to see how we end our workshops-with one big musical experience!

Teachers all took away plenty of resources to get them started with using Musical Futures in the classroom straight away (all delegates at our workshops receive free and unlimited downloads of all our current and futures resources). We hope our new friends in Munich enjoy trying them out with their classes this week! **

If you are interested in finding out more about Musical Futures International in Europe, please contact Anna Gower via anna@musicalfuturesinternational.org.

**please note that this does not apply to workshops run by Musical Futures UK
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