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At the time of writing Music Fun Gillian was both a practising private teacher of music and a classroom primary teacher. As a private teacher she taught the piano and the recorder and at school (both private and state) she taught class music and gave tuition in the recorder. After giving up teaching to look after our young children (encouraging them of course from an early age to learn an instrument) she returned to full time junior classroom teaching. In addition to class music lessons she is also very much involved in the school’s music scene (clubs, assemblies, orchestras and the children’s performances). Gillian therefore brought academic, child learning psychology and practical experience in music and education to her books.
Her knowledge and experience of teaching children from five years and upwards will give your pupils a disciplined but fun approach to mastering musical theory. Music Fun has been used successfully on her own pupils and it has been their enthusiasm for the books that has encouraged her to make the books widely available.
Gillian plays the piano, organ, French horn and recorder. She also has experience of playing in, and is chairman (and occasional rehearsal conductor), of Stafford’s Orchestra and has been known to play the teapot, tubular chairs and hose pipe at other venues of light entertainment.
The author
Gillian Baskett
The emotive power of music was evident at school when Gillian asked her Year 4 (8/9 years of age) children to listen to ‘On hearing the first cuckoo in Spring’ by Delius. After playing a short excerpt she stopped the music to determine the children’s reaction to the piece. At this point she noticed one of the boys in tears. Asking him why he was crying he replied that the music reminded him of his grandpa who had died. Many others said it made them feel sad. She continued with the music and as it progressed so more and more of the children burst into tears. Many said it brought back sad memories of grandparents dying, mum and dad splitting up and family pets dying. One of the suggestions for a title was ‘Pools of Tears’. At the end of the lesson over half had shed bucket loads of tears.
As many will appreciate music evokes strong emotions sometimes, hence the use of
music in films and TV productions -
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Gillian read music at Hull University where she graduated before doing a PGCE (at Bretton College, Yorkshire) specialising in the teaching of music at junior and middle school level.
