The topic for my paper is basically (I won't call it this) but it's going to be about what's wrong with elementary music education. All of you (who grew up in America and went to public school) had music classes in school most likely from 1st - 8th grade. Unfortunately, most of you probably vaguely remember them OR if you do remember them, you probably remember them as just singing in class and basically it was viewed as a 'bird' course. (hopefully some of you actually did have a meaningful music teacher in primary school! (if you did, send them an email and thank them!) but I didn't and most people I've talked to didn't either!) the problem is that general music CAN (DEFINATELY NOT ALWAYS) be a place where under skilled musicians flock, or a place where skilled musicians forget their higher learning and become the type of musician they are teaching (a very unskilled one) obviously, this is not always the case (and I really can't emphasize this enough) but I want my paper will be a way to show teachers that little kids can be taught advanced concepts in music and also serve to convince people that they need to be teaching things like this or learned music will literally DIE in America.
This is the article I found, it talks about a lack of unity amongst general music teachers, as well as adressing how poorly we are prepared to do this in college.
Spurgeon, Alan. "Proposed changes for the Undergraduate Elementary Music Education Curriculum". General Music Today. Vol. 17 Issue 3. pg. 28-32. Music Index. EBSCO Host. IUP Library, Indiana University of PA. Indiana, PA. February 2011.
Link to Article
Monday, February 21, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Annotated Bib example
Hello Everyone!
My professor didn't recommend an article, she recommended a series of posters she saw at a convention for music ed.
because of this, I thought I would cite a book that I would probably include in my paper. I'm hoping to do my paper on strategies for teaching 20th century harmonic practices to young children in general music education settings.
So I figured I would cite a book about 20th century harmony which I would be refering to quite a bit
Persichetti, Vincent.Twentieth Century Harmony: Creative Aspects and Practice. New York, W.W. Norton & Company. Print
This book is viewed by Dr. Ferguson, as well as several other music faculty members, as the book to use to understand 20th century harmonic practices. The great thing about this book is that as well as explaining each harmonic and compositional technique, the author also gives exercises at the end of each chapter. This is excellant because it gives students a chance to both review the concepts and also practice them. another great thing about this book is that relatively little training in "Common Practice (roughly 1750-1850)" music theory is required. Because of this, I feel this book demonstrates that it may be easier to teach 20th century harmonic practices to children rather than harmonic practices before the 20th century.
My professor didn't recommend an article, she recommended a series of posters she saw at a convention for music ed.
because of this, I thought I would cite a book that I would probably include in my paper. I'm hoping to do my paper on strategies for teaching 20th century harmonic practices to young children in general music education settings.
So I figured I would cite a book about 20th century harmony which I would be refering to quite a bit
Persichetti, Vincent.Twentieth Century Harmony: Creative Aspects and Practice. New York, W.W. Norton & Company. Print
This book is viewed by Dr. Ferguson, as well as several other music faculty members, as the book to use to understand 20th century harmonic practices. The great thing about this book is that as well as explaining each harmonic and compositional technique, the author also gives exercises at the end of each chapter. This is excellant because it gives students a chance to both review the concepts and also practice them. another great thing about this book is that relatively little training in "Common Practice (roughly 1750-1850)" music theory is required. Because of this, I feel this book demonstrates that it may be easier to teach 20th century harmonic practices to children rather than harmonic practices before the 20th century.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Intro and Response
Intro:
Hey everyone! I started this blog because of English class. A couple things about me. I'm a music Ed. major at IUP, it pretty much consumes my life, I also like to read, and I'm not a big fan of blogs.
Response:
This article was really interesting. Reading it online was definately a must. the NY Times pretty much demonstrated to us (probably unintentionally) how easy it is to multi-task. as I was reading the article, other new articles kept popping up in the bottom corner, and I could not stop from clicking on the links inside the article that went to the focus and concentration games (which I did poorly on by the way). This article was definately an eye opener.
... what's up with the old timey phone in the background of this?
Hey everyone! I started this blog because of English class. A couple things about me. I'm a music Ed. major at IUP, it pretty much consumes my life, I also like to read, and I'm not a big fan of blogs.
Response:
This article was really interesting. Reading it online was definately a must. the NY Times pretty much demonstrated to us (probably unintentionally) how easy it is to multi-task. as I was reading the article, other new articles kept popping up in the bottom corner, and I could not stop from clicking on the links inside the article that went to the focus and concentration games (which I did poorly on by the way). This article was definately an eye opener.
... what's up with the old timey phone in the background of this?
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