Assists thinking and learning Sound Reflections is a 'notebook with an attitude' and does encourage students to collect all their musical thoughts in the one space. This section will help student to think about how music is constructed, will aid familiarisation with the aspects of music, and will provide words and concepts that aid writing about music in Sound Reflections. The Music Talk section is a glossary of musical terms. It can be used to clarify the meaning of musical terms as they arise in reading or conversation. It can be browsed through to expand musical vocabulary, which increases the range and accuracy of comments made about music in Sound Reflections.
Space is included for students to add their own terms and definitions.
Action by itself is blind, and reflection impotent. The Psychology of Happiness. When we first began to use Sound Reflections in our ensembles and classrooms we found that we simply did not have the time to stop our activity and talk and write about what we had done. The activity was fun and engaging and the students were motivated to be involved, and we felt that to stop and write or talk about our music was a let down and took away from the precious little time we had to make music anyway. Surprisingly, it was students that told us in interviews that the times that they gained the best understanding and meaning from music activity was when we had made the time to reflect and discuss our music making.