Music & Life: Child Development and Music
How does music benefit your child? Does music make a difference in schools and hospitals? What are some simple ways that you can add music to every day life?
Sabrina Peña Young
An intermedia composer, percussionist, author, and obsessive sci-fi buff, Sabrina Peña Young creates mind-bending electroacoustic works that have been heard throughout Australia, Asia, North America, and Europe in media festivals, radio, film, dance clubs, random boom boxes in France - and as not-so-pleasant background music.
Critics have described her music as “daunting,” and “marvelously abstract,” and she has received a wide range of awards for her compositions, including New Genre Award from the International Alliance for Women in Music for her work "Creation" and the Cintas Foundation's Brandon Fradd Fellowship in Music Composition, as well as awards and nominations for her film-making work.
Sabrina has a passion for writing too, and recently published "The Feminine Musique: Multimedia and Women Today", available at Amazon.com. She has also written for the Kapralova Society Journal, Percussive Notes, Panpipes, the IAWM Music Journal, the SEAMUS Music Journal, and various fine arts websites.
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Posts by Sabrina Peña Young
Music & Life: Rockin’ Rockabye Baby Lullabies
Before you rocked on your first guitar, jammed with your high school garage band, or sang your first tune, you had a passion for music. Whether you heard “Rockabye Baby”, “Esta Niña Linda,” or “Fais Dodo Colas, Mon Petit Frère”,...
Music & Life: The Secret Language Connection
Did you jam on the keys at age five? Sing since you wore diapers? Or did you just pick up music a year ago? The amount of music in your life directly affects your ability to understand language. The longer you have played, the better your language skills[4]. How is...
Music & Life: The Unborn Child
Ears form within the first ten weeks of pregnancy, and the unborn baby can hear after four months. You can create a good environment to nurture their ears.
Music & Life: Introduction
Discover the links between Music & Life with Easy Ear Training. This innovative new series explores musical training from conception to grave. Learn how music you heard in-utero affected your musical tastes today. Encourage musical creativity in your child or...
Rock Band II: The Ultimate Ear Training Hero
Jam out with your friends and hone your music skills with Rock Band! Use Rock Band’s easy interface to practice pitch and rhythm. You don’t need to be a professional musician – even beginners can learn basic ear training using Rock Band. 1. Set up...Let Your Ear Training Soar with Noteflight
Ever pick up a piece of sheet music and wish that you could hear the notes on the page? Working on ear training can be frustrating if you can’t hear the melody and don’t know how to pick it out on a keyboard. Noteflight’s online notation software can...
Feeling unbalanced? Check your hearing with ToneTester
Before you put the blame on your lack of singing skills to quitting high school choir, you might want to check out your hearing. Years of drumming, jamming in a rock band, or working as a sound tech can wreak havoc on your hearing. While medical hearing tests can...
How to Make Interval Ear Training Exercises with Garageband
You can use Garageband to create your own interval ear training exercises. Garageband ear training is an easy way to use technology to help you learn.
Audacious Ear Training
Enjoy singing your favorite tune at the top of your lungs in the privacy of your own car? Having such wonderful self-confidence in a less-than-stellar vocal performance can be exhilarating, but developing accurate pitch is an essential part of ear training. You can...
Ear Training Fun With Your iPhone, PS3, and Satellite Radio
You don’t have to sit in a tedious aural theory classroom to improve your ear training. Everyday technology like the internet, your cell phone, video games, or even your car radio can help you train your ears to discern pitches, rhythm, and harmony. You can work...
Become a Rhythm Guru with GarageBand in 5 Easy Steps
Apple’s Garageband software can be used to work on basic ear training skills involving rhythm, pitch, melody, and harmony. This article will show you how.
