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It employed a tessitura accessible to most pupils.
It made frequent use of popular music, world musics and folk music.
It employed accessible methods of enambling harmony and part singing.
It provided a methodology for rote methods and aural learning as a way of involving all students.

''Singing Matters'' was followed by ''Developing Singing Matters'' which extended the range and repertoire of the earlier publication. ''Composing Matters'', by Patrick Allen and published by Heinemann in 2002, applied Allen's practical, hands on and aural methodology to classroom composing in a series of 24 projects. Patrick Allen is an Advanced Skills Teacher working at Ifield Community College in Crawley and won The Guardian Award for Teacher of the Year in a Secondary School in 2004.

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TES article abut prizewinning Singing Matters {Link without Title}
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