Lulu's Song
“In an enchanted forest, lived a beautiful hummingbird named Lulu. She was known throughout the forest for her enchanting singing voice that made
everyone smile when they heard it.”
This is how this composition story starts, which is about a little hummingbirdcalled Lulu. She has lost her singing voice and is helped by her friends in the forest to find her voice and be able to sing beautiful songs again.
Throughout the tale, students, alongside Lulu's companions, assist her with four distinct tasks. Initially, they must uncover two rhythms for Lulu's song. By identifying tones for these rhythms and manipulating them through cutting,
mirroring, and inversion, new melodic fragments are born. Eventually, these fragments are pieced together with various emotions or moods to craft a song that Lulu can joyfully sing to her friends.
When you write music with your students, the students will hopefully gain greater ownership of the music and will more easily learn both the easy and the more difficult things with this method.
Anne is a flute teacher based in Denmark with more than 20 years of teaching experience. She is always in the search for new fun ways to teach the flute and most recently she was trained as a Music Mind Games teacher. She completed her masters degree in flute and flute pedagogy at Nordjysk Music Conservatorium in Denmark. At Rudersdal Music School, where she teach the flute, she also teaches elementary music education. Anne completed a degree in Art and Culture intermediary from the University College Sjælland. Her favorite color is red and yellow like a beautiful sunset. Due to a lack of good flute method books in Danish for little students, Anne wrote her own flute method book! This book is now being translated to English by her daughter. It is important to Anne that kids who start learning music at an early age are given the best start which includes a lot of laughter and fun games. You can read more about Anne's flute method book at www.minfloejtebog.dk or visit her at minfloejtebog.dk on Instagram.
