Composer, pianist, music educator Little Peppers • Pepperbox Jazz [Faber Music] • P Plate Piano [AMEB] "Getting to..." series [Hal Leonard Australia] Chord Challenge • 30/40 Piece Challenge some collected writings: elissamilne.com https://bsky.app/profile/elissamilne.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/elissamilne.bsky.social/post/3lsbyb2ymtk2gYes!!! [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Jun 2025 16:17 +0000at://did:plc:r3do7lqofe7psfikdyncmvg7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsbyb2ymtk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/elissamilne.bsky.social/post/3ln5gbdgdus2cQuestion for my music education peeps: Do you see memory in music as being the opposite of reading? Or something else?19 Apr 2025 05:39 +0000at://did:plc:r3do7lqofe7psfikdyncmvg7/app.bsky.feed.post/3ln5gbdgdus2chttps://bsky.app/profile/elissamilne.bsky.social/post/3lloflqez7k26Music Education People! Do you think of music notation as a representation of sound? As instructions for performance? As a memory aid? As a record of composerly intent? A script for interpretation? A colonial artifact? A map for listening? Something else? All of these?31 Mar 2025 12:52 +0000at://did:plc:r3do7lqofe7psfikdyncmvg7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lloflqez7k26https://bsky.app/profile/elissamilne.bsky.social/post/3llnvjkih3c2lThis is how you do it! [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 Mar 2025 08:04 +0000at://did:plc:r3do7lqofe7psfikdyncmvg7/app.bsky.feed.post/3llnvjkih3c2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/elissamilne.bsky.social/post/3lhpiqanxns2bIn searching Bluesky for news about independent candidate in the upcoming Australian federal election, Nicolette Boele (Bradfield), I did not expect to learn this: [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Feb 2025 01:40 +0000at://did:plc:r3do7lqofe7psfikdyncmvg7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhpiqanxns2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/elissamilne.bsky.social/post/3lhboc72gik2k“This obscures more than it reveals” is perfect discourse for one’s seven-year-old offspring ❤️03 Feb 2025 13:42 +0000at://did:plc:r3do7lqofe7psfikdyncmvg7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhboc72gik2khttps://bsky.app/profile/elissamilne.bsky.social/post/3lfsteez5dk2wGoing back to the site formerly known as Twitter to reference a great conversation I had a few years ago there, to discover enough people have nuked their accounts that not only the great conversation no longer exists, but nearly all the great conversations are also gone.15 Jan 2025 22:38 +0000at://did:plc:r3do7lqofe7psfikdyncmvg7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfsteez5dk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/elissamilne.bsky.social/post/3ldqdvahjck2jMost people think of piano practice as a kind of discipline or drudgery. Best practice, however, is a different kind of practice altogether: exploration, hypothesis, discovery, nuance. And more than that! It's sensory awareness, story-telling, the bending of time and the crafting of consciousness.20 Dec 2024 12:05 +0000at://did:plc:r3do7lqofe7psfikdyncmvg7/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldqdvahjck2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/elissamilne.bsky.social/post/3ldkaqquwms2vSo much good stuff in this epic Beethoven thread - save this, if you don’t have time to read it right now! [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Dec 2024 01:53 +0000at://did:plc:r3do7lqofe7psfikdyncmvg7/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldkaqquwms2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/elissamilne.bsky.social/post/3ldg4vbnpgc27Six years ago, I wrote about a trend in piano teaching I'd observed in 2018: teachers and publishers in the English-speaking piano teaching world adding the pedagogical strategy of teaching-without-notation [some call it "rote" teaching] to their skill set. https://elissamilne.com/2018/12/21/the-piano-teaching-trend-of-2018/16 Dec 2024 10:33 +0000at://did:plc:r3do7lqofe7psfikdyncmvg7/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldg4vbnpgc27https://bsky.app/profile/elissamilne.bsky.social/post/3lcc2iaqzxc2pMe, with everyone: opera is an art form dedicated in large part to the glorification of violence against (and the abuse, belittling and degradation of) women. [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Dec 2024 02:14 +0000at://did:plc:r3do7lqofe7psfikdyncmvg7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcc2iaqzxc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/elissamilne.bsky.social/post/3lbrfb7e2pk2mLove this list of things to consider in delivering music education: [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Nov 2024 11:12 +0000at://did:plc:r3do7lqofe7psfikdyncmvg7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbrfb7e2pk2m