Highly-awarded Australian composer and recording artist Margaret Brandman…
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Read MoreMargaret Brandman reflects on 75 years of life - and more than 50 years creating music. What are the chances of meeting the right person at exactly the right moment? What are the chances that a chance conversation at a dinner will lead to new compositions, concerts and an ARIA No. 1 album? Or that a meeting on a train, just months before your 75th birthday concert, will provide the final performer you need? And what are the chances that, after more than five decades as a composer, performer and music educator, you would find yourself standing on the stage...
Read MoreMost leading music educators would agree that the aural component of music education is of utmost importance, after all, teachers and students of music are...
Read MoreWhen I started out playing the piano the only scale manuals available were the dreariest publications you can imagine. Each page had the same look...
Read MoreI have written quite extensively on music in its educational societal and healing contexts, especially in a recent article for WellBeing magazine. (The 1998 Annual...
Read MoreMusic education in Australia for the past 50 years or so has been dominated by an examination system that fosters rote learning of four pieces...
Read MoreMusic is many things to many people. For some it creates a sense of balance and harmony and oneness with nature. For others it can...
Read MoreFascinating information on unusual scales Those of you who are aware of my work, would know about my fascination with the keyboard patterns of scales....
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