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Ritmico, the IRMT’s Journal, is a lively 60-page, A5 music publication comprising articles, interviews, profiles, teaching information, reviews and IRMT news. It is mailed to all members of IRMT. Members teach piano, singing, a variety of instruments, theory, composition and jazz, and are active in schools, private tuition, tertiary teaching, itinerant teaching, pre-school music activities, and orchestral and choral groups. Ritmico is also circulated to an independent mailing list and some libraries. It is published three times a year. 

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• Book Reviews
• Douglas Lilburn's Piano Music - Some Suggestions for Teaching
• Franz Liszt - The Man who had Everything.
• Murray McLachlan National Tour of New Zealand.  June 2011
• The Music of Franz Liszt

• Adult Seekers and Learners
• Crossing over - an Inclusive Ethos and Method in Music Education
• Four Examination Boards Have Their Say
• The Neurobiology of Musicality
• The Young Chopin - Genesis of Romaticism

Precis of Professor Terence Dennis on the Young Chopin
Chopin (1810-1849) as a young man moved from Poland to France following Russian suppression of an uprising. His early work is that of a student in Poland, and a gifted and observant student is an excellent encapsulation of the music of a particular time. The Romantic period is somewhat arbitrarily defined as beginning in 1820, when Chopin was 10. The beginnings of that young genius trace the development of the Romantic Era.

• Bel Canto on the Piano
• Chinese Music Making in Early New Zealand
• How Children Learn
• Teaching the Child with Dyspraxia
• Echoes and Reflections

Precis of Echoes and Reflections.
Professor Dennis gives examples of "Echoes" - Either old aural recordings by the composer, or predating that, cases where ornamentation was recorded as dictated so the intentions of a composer were noted. "Reflections" are more a mirror of the original. An example is  the Previn recasting into Jazz idiom the song "My Fair Lady" which originally was cast for non-singer Rex Harrison.

What the Romantic Felt and What the Impressionist Saw - Ian Munro

Read  in full, Ian Munro’s lecture at ‘The Flow of Music: 1510-2010’  Conference
in Hamilton, January 2010