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LORRAINE MILNE

Composer and music educator
​​Lorraine Milne writes and produces music resources for teachers and students: original songs and scores,  children’s music activity books, curriculum notes, resource kits and study guides. Lorraine also runs workshops and Professional Development courses.
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Award for Excellence in Music Education
​For sustained contribution to music education
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2014 Music Education Hall of Fame

Resources for piano teachers and students, choirs and secondary students

2018-2020 ANZCA Modern Pianoforte Syllabus 
These six pieces from the Jazzamatazz series are included in the 2018-2020 ANZCA Modern Pianoforte Syllabus.​
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Grade 4 - Blues
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Grade 4 - Jazz and Popular Standards
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Grade 4 - Blues
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Grade 3 - Jazz and Popular Standards
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Grade 4 - Jazz and Popular Standards
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Grade 4 - Ragtime
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THE EMERGING PIANIST


​A series of 24 individual piano pieces for students who are ready to move on from beginners and looking for a bigger challenge.
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With each score there is an Abridged version (one page) for younger students and a Full version (double page) for students ready for that bigger challenge. The Abridged versions could also be used by more advanced students for sight-reading practice.
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The title page of each piece includes a few notes about its main musical features – form, articulation, use of relative major/minor modes, shifting metres, styles, etc.

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JAZZAMATAZZ


​A series of 13 individual pieces for students who are Intermediate and beyond. 

​The 13 pieces in the Jazzamatazz series cover a variety of styles and feels from swing to jazz waltzes to the blues.

Six of these pieces are included in the 2018-2020 ANZCA Modern Pianoforte syllabus.​
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KALEIDOSCOPE


Kaleidoscope consists of 3 short pieces each inspired by different aspects of the shifting colours of a kaleidoscope.
 
They are impressionistic in colour, employing whole tone scales, octatonic scales and parallelism.




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THE WHOLE SUITE


The Whole Suite consists of seven movements based on the octatonic scale.

In Jazz, this mode is known as the half tone-whole tone scale and Jazz musicians use it as an improvisatory tool.

Rimsky-Korsakov is said to have called it the “mode of limited transposition”.


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MAIDEN VOYAGE 
An Australian Song Cycle

Maiden Voyage is a song cycle about the achievements of Australian women. There are three components to Maiden Voyage - a CD, full vocal and piano scores, and a Music Resource Kit for secondary students.
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“What a rich and diverse history of Australian women has been captured in this music. And it’s a song cycle, unified by its music and text. It’s accessible and real…”
​(Associate Professor Neryl Jeanneret, Melbourne University Graduate School of Education)
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​Contact Lorraine about music resources

lorraine@lorrainemilne.com
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