Dr. Dick's "Mendelssohn's World"

A blog posting background information and resource material for teachers and students for an education outreach program of the West Branch Music Festival at the Harrisburg School District's John Harris High School in September 2009 - Dick Strawser, Educational Consultant

Friday, September 18, 2009

About Those Essays

There have been a lot of questions about the essays. First of all, choosing your topic : This should be something that interests you, relat...

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Study Questions #7: Listening to Music

Here are the "Study Questions" Ms. Robbins wrote up for Mendelssohn’s World. Musical Qualities In addition to the musical issues t...

Fun with SHMRG

When I was teaching in college, my students often asked what they were supposed to listen for and I said “anything you hear.” How do you lea...

Photos from the West Branch Music Festival

This past Sunday, Odin Rathnam and the members of the West Branch Music Festival performed Mendelssohn's Octet at the West Branch Resort...

Friday, September 11, 2009

Another Way of Listening to "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

There are several ways to listen to a piece of music: you can listen to it because you like it (or because you were told to...); you can lis...

Technical Difficulties beyond a Luddite's Control

As it happens (so to speak), one can only count on so many bugs in any given system. When we began setting this project up, the idea was to ...

Music as a Language: Putting it Together, Note by Note

Music is often called “a universal language” even though it's not a language you would speak. Because it can communicate without words, ...

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Dick Strawser: Dr. Dick is a classically-trained musician and recovering composer who enjoys writing about music.

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