Student-composed jingle featured in NJTV

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Matt Austin

Senior Sophia Lange’s jingle was chosen as a segue piece between clips in each episode of NJTV Learning Live, a program created to educate students in grades three through six while schools are shut down from the coronavirus. The tune was created using a piano, flute, and tambourine on Musescore.

Senior Sophia Lange composed a jingle using a piano, flute, and tambourine on Musescore at 1 a.m. after receiving an email from AP Music Theory teacher Argine Safari.

“I was proud and humbled by how it turned out, [but] I didn’t believe that anyone would like it that much,” said Lange, who had only three days to compose the jingle.

A few days later, her tune was picked as a segue piece between clips for each episode of NJTV Learning Live, a program created to educate students in grades three through six while schools are shut down from the coronavirus.

“The Department of Education came together and decided to make videos for kids because they would be learning this stuff in school right now,” Lange said. “It covers the public school curriculum in the state of New Jersey.”

The first episode with third-grade math teacher Lindsay Frevert from Van Derveer Elementary School in Somerville broadcasted on Monday, April 6, the program will continue airing using Lange’s jingle until the summer.

“Sophia is just tremendous,” Safari said. “She is phenomenal and a super bright student, and I knew she would do great.”

Lange only started working with Musescore at the beginning of the year, and she said she “was proud of how [the jingle] turned out” and chooses to see the beauty in the current circumstances.

“If our situation has taught me one thing, it is that if it weren’t for our current state, the Department of Education wouldn’t have needed to create the television program,” Lange said. “It makes me happy that I got this opportunity. For me, it is the silver lining in all of this.”