MUSIC RESOURCE KITS

Lorraine has written many resource kits and sets of curriculum notes for a diverse number of organisations from the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra to Sydney Opera House, Musica Viva in Schools to Opera Australia. 

The following five teaching kits are published by The Australian Music Centre (AMC) and available on their website.

Teaching kits suitable for secondary students

Music Resource Kit

A WAY BACK

A Way Back is a jazz-rock piece composed by
Lachlan Davidson.

The extension activities in the kit are designed for use in the classroom and involve the three basic areas of musical activity – listening, performing and composing.

They cover the following musical elements/concepts and are applicable across all music curricula in Australia.
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• Unusual time signatures (with a focus on 7/4)
• Sub-division of beat
• Rhythmic and melodic patterns and phrases (riffs) in 7/4
• Changing metres
• Dorian mode
• 12-bar blues harmonic pattern
• Blues scales (for melodic improvisation)
• Composing a melody to be sung with an original set of lyrics

For older students, a full score and set of performance parts are included.
 
This kit comprises the study guide, a study score and parts,
and an audio CD with full tracks and practice tracks.
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• Written by Lorraine Milne
• Commissioned by the Australian Society for Music Education (ASME).
• Published by the Australian Music Centre (AMC), 2007

 

Cost: $75.00 (10% discount for AMC members)

Purchase from the Australian Music Centre

More information about Lachlan Davidson can be found on his websitewww.lachlandavidson.com.au
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'Arrangement 2' audio extract 

Teacher Resource Kit

WHEATBELT

wheatbelt is a full SATB choral piece composed by
Iain Grandage with text by Kevin Gillam.
 
The intention of this study guide is to expose students to the creative process of musical composition by focusing on specific techniques used by a composer in setting a poem to music for a full SATB choir.

In examining how Iain Grandage employs particular musical elements and “controls”, students are then encouraged to apply them to their own compositions.  

By so doing, they are involved in the three basic areas of musical activity – listening, composing, performing – as well as covering the following musical elements and concepts: text, texture/timbre, rhythm, melody, harmony/tonality, form

This kit kit contains the study guide, a full vocal score and a CD
with the full work pus selected audio extracts for study purposes.

• Written by Lorraine Milne
• Commissioned by the Australian Society for Music Education (ASME).
• Published by the Australian Music Centre (AMC), 2009

 
Cost: $50.00 (10% discount for AMC members)
 

Purchase from the Australian Music Centre

More information about Iain Grandage can be found on his website www.iaingrandage.com
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'Introduction' audio extract 

Music Education Kit

STRING QUARTET No. 16

​This  work was inspired by letters from refugees in Australia’s detention centres and resonates with the plight of people displaced by war and turmoil around the world.
 
The intention of the resource kit is to explore the creative process of musical composition by:
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• following the “journey” of a composition;
• examining the context in which it was written;
• focusing on specific and characteristic techniques used by the composer;
• placing the composition within the broader opus of Peter Sculthorpe’s large creative output.

This kit contains the study guide, a full score and an
audio CD of the full recording by the Goldner Quartet.

• Written by Lorraine Milne
• Commissioned by the Australian Society for Music Education (ASME) and Associate Professor Neryl Jeanneret (Melbourne University Graduate School of Education)
• Published by the Australian Music Centre (AMC), 2014

​String Quartet No. 16 was composed by Peter Sculthorpe in 2005 and revised in 2006.
 
Cost: $90.00 (10% discount for AMC members)

Purchase from the Australian Music Centre

More information about Peter Sculthorpe can be found on his website www.petersculthorpe.com.au
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'First Movement' audio extract 

Music Resource Kit

MAIDEN VOYAGE 

Maiden Voyage, composed by Lorraine Milne, is a song cycle of 13 songs scored for 3-part female choir, soloist and piano accompaniment.
 
Written for secondary students, the intention of the resource kit is to explore the creative process of musical composition by:

• tracing the narrative of this song cycle

• exploring the musical setting of the stories
• observing the stylistic characteristics in this contemporary song cycle
• recognising compositional devices employed in the song cycle.

This kit is accompanied by an audio CD and a full digital pdf score.

• Written by Julie Montague
• Commissioned by the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, UNESCO Arts Education Observatory and the Australian Society for Music Education (ASME).
• Published by the Australian Music Centre (AMC), 2016

The lyric content of Maiden Voyage traces the experiences and achievements of ordinary and extraordinary Australian women in historical and contemporary settings.

The music reflects Lorraine’s background as a classically trained musician overlaid with her deep love of jazz and experience as a theatre composer.
 
Cost: $90.00 (10% discount for AMC members)

Purchase from the Australian Music Centre

More information about Maiden Voyage can be found on this page  Maiden Voyage
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'Shifting South' audio extract 

Music Education Kit

MOVING ON 
​The life and music of Brian Brown

Moving On traces five decades in the life and music of jazz musician and educator, Brian Brown.
 
The intention of this resource kit is to explore Brown’s legacy to Australian jazz by examining different aspects of selected compositions such as:

• styles and eras of jazz which influenced his music;
• the use of particular modes and harmonic structures;
• the use of groove-based riffs, shifting time signatures, chord clusters;
• the exploration of texture and timbre of unusual instruments;
• free improvisation.

This kit contains the study guide and an audio CD of full tracks
and selected extracts for study purposes.

• Written by Lorraine Milne.
• Commissioned by Dr. Ros McMillan
• Published by the Australian Music Centre (AMC), 2018

Cost $60.00 (10% discount for AMC members)

Purchase from the Australian Music Centre

More information about Brian Brown can be found on his website www.brianbrown.com.au

Review of Moving On

​The mood on 'Bells Makes Me Sing' is wildly exciting. It cannot fail to grab the enthusiastic interest of jazz students.

Cue questions have been sensibly structured to ensure that students will be able to learn quickly.
 
It is significant that Ms Milne has chosen to develop this education kit around the legacy of an influential Australian jazz musician, without turning to American models. Throughout his long career [Brian Brown] maintained and advocated for his conviction that an improvising musician should strive primarily to develop his/her own sound, ideas, directions and to continue to strive also to extend personal boundaries. The materials included in this kit attest to the viability of this approach.
 
 More talented students should find that the kit opens horizons of which they were previously unaware.
 -Ted Nettleback, April 7, 2019  

'Bells Make Me Sing' audio extract 

About the Australian Music Centre

The Australian Music Centre (AMC) is the national service organisation dedicated to the promotion and support of art music in Australia.

The AMC houses and curates the most comprehensive catalogue of Australian music, a living collection of scores, recordings, research papers, teaching kits, classroom materials and aggregated media.

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