A Musical Informance to Celebrate the Solar Eclipse

I did a poll on Instagram recently to see if any of my music teacher friends had ever hosted a musical informance. A few said "yes," a few said "no," but a surprising number of respondents chose the third option: "What's an informance?"

An informance is basically an informal performance or as Eastman professor Dave Headlam describes, "A performance for the information age." (source: Oxford Handbook of Public Music Theory)

There's a teaching component and a performing component, and depending on how you structure it, a conversational or interactive component.

In Ep. 068, I showed you in real time how I was researching, planning, and organizing my first musical informance for my students.

Today, I'm sharing more details about our upcoming musical informance—my repertoire list, the questions I'm posing to my students as they learn and prepare, opportunities for student creativity and input, and how I'm organizing it with parents and families.

For show notes + a full transcript, click here.

Resources Mentioned

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D. Headlam (2021). "Musical Informance: Performance for the Information Age." The Oxford Handbook of Public Music Theory. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197551554.013.2

Ep. 068 - How to Plan a Musical Informance

Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin

Doodle Poll

The Rising Sun (Nancy Telfer)

A Morning Sunbeam (Florence Price)

Solar Eclipse (Piano Safari Repertoire Level 2)

Rhythm Pattern Card Set

Total Eclipse of the Heart

Sunshower (Martha Hill Duncan)

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