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Weaving Musical Tapestries:
Stories for the Singapore
Classroom
The Art and Music teaching fraternity at Celebración 2017
our cultural diversity - the richness of our
past, the unique character of our places,
the strength of our way of life and the
power of our aspirations. Together, they
create a kaleidoscopic tapestry that
celebrates our rich and vibrant life in
Singapore.
Two years in the making, Stories We Sing
is a pioneering effort to express authentic
lived experiences that will resonate with
teachers and students, and expand
shared spaces in Singapore through
songs. This teaching resource features an
illustrated publication, a CD album and
50 lesson ideas based on a collection of 12
commissioned songs to support teaching
with engaging pedagogies.
In collaboration with the National Arts
Council, the songs were penned by
notable Singaporean composers, poets
and singer-songwriters as pedagogical
repertoire to support the 2015 General
Music Programme syllabus, intersecting
both the artistic and educative.
The 12 songs express our contemporary
Singapore lived experiences through a
striking variety of musical styles in the
four national languages that elucidate
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