{"id":14678,"date":"2021-05-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/blasarafornam-i-stad-hefdbundinnar-blokkflautukennslu\/"},"modified":"2022-09-26T15:17:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T15:17:24","slug":"a-breath-of-fresh-air-in-the-world-of-traditional-recorder-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/blasarafornam-i-stad-hefdbundinnar-blokkflautukennslu\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind instrument tuition instead of recorder teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>The junior brass band has become a 35-child band.<\/h4>\n<p>Changes made in the second year of the preparatory course at the Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Music School in autumn 2019 have resulted in a significant increase in enrolment in the school's wind instrument department following the completion of the preparatory course. The pre-school was changed into a wind instrument preparatory course, where pupils learn to play wind instruments in small groups instead of the traditional recorder teaching, both at the school's premises and, increasingly, in the town's primary schools. The junior brass band, which was a 16-child band, has now grown to 35 children. The Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Music School celebrated its 70th anniversary in September 2020, and the anniversary will be celebrated in various ways as circumstances permit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/img_6795-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6795\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 2048px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 2048\/1366;\"><sup>Many more students at the Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Music School are choosing various wind instruments as their instrument for further study, following a change to the school's preparatory course.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/sup><\/p>\n<h4><strong>The popularity of woodwind and brass instruments is increasing <\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Students begin the pre-school programme at the age of 6-7. The pre-school<br \/>\nis intended to prepare children for instrumental tuition, with an initial emphasis<br \/>\nfocused on singing, movement and listening, as well as incorporating elements of creativity<br \/>\nall sorts of projects where students create their own music. In the first year, there are<br \/>\nEmphasis was placed on teaching the recorder, but that change was made in the autumn of 2019.<br \/>\nConvert the second year into a blower pre-course. This change has resulted in much<br \/>\nMore students are choosing different wind instruments as their instrument upon completion.<br \/>\nstudies in the pre-school. Guitar, piano and drums continue to reign supreme as<br \/>\nfirst choice, but now woodwind instruments such as the flute, clarinet,<br \/>\nsaxophone and oboe and brass instruments such as cornet, trumpet, horn,<br \/>\nThe baritone horn, bassoon and tuba are starting to gain ground. You can start learning on<br \/>\nall these instruments immediately after nursery school and from the very beginning of their studies, all at the same time<br \/>\nand a certain basic skill has been achieved in the interaction within the bands and<br \/>\nother ensembles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonhaf.is\/\">A very strong music programme and concert series take place at the Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Music School.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yngri l\u00fa\u00f0rasveitin or\u00f0in 35 barna sveit Breytingar sem ger\u00f0ar voru \u00e1 seinna \u00e1ri forsk\u00f3lans \u00ed T\u00f3nlistarsk\u00f3la Hafnarfjar\u00f0ar hausti\u00f0 2019 hafa or\u00f0i\u00f0 til \u00feess a\u00f0 a\u00f0s\u00f3kn \u00ed bl\u00e1saradeild sk\u00f3lans a\u00f0 forsk\u00f3lan\u00e1mi loknu hefur aukist til muna. Forsk\u00f3linn breyttist \u00ed bl\u00e1saraforn\u00e1m \u00fear sem nemendur l\u00e6ra \u00e1 bl\u00e1sturshlj\u00f3\u00f0f\u00e6ri \u00ed litlum h\u00f3pum \u00ed sta\u00f0 hef\u00f0bundinnar blokkflautukennslu b\u00e6\u00f0i \u00ed h\u00fasn\u00e6\u00f0i [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14678"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}