I honestly find these particular philosophies and ideas posted by Lucy Green and the authors of Musical Futures intriguing and possible, if enough patience is given. Watching videos of students playing their works, after learning for themselves how to be musical and musicians, and having FUN doing so is inspiring and good enough for me to seriously consider pushing for such ideas in the music classroom (or at least the musicianship class). Choral setting, might be a bit much. The essential problem with putting these philosophies to an ensemble setting proper is that this type of curriculum requires individual and small-group work. Getting a larger group of students to agree on a single set of ideas is exponentially more difficult due to the fact that this is an ensemble of at least 20, rather than small groups of, at most, 5. However, the idea of having students work on their own and practice developing musicianship on their own ...
excuse the caps lock abuse.
WHY THE [BLEEP] DIDN'T WE THINK OF THIS BEFORE????
Encouraging students to create their own product from the knowledge they attain is a must. The basic idea I see from this is actual practice of the knowledge rather than rote retention. I wish I could more enthusiastically advocate these projects.
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Sunday, August 7, 2011
4th week -
Okay, so the math thing fell through. So has Tutors with Computers. But on with this post!
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It was interesting, looking into the Image Junction project. Honestly, if the high school I worked with had the technology and patience, I think this idea of getting students to create music to a random video and then getting them familiar with the instruments to create "minimalist" music. I like this idea, honestly, because I'm biased towards the idea of creating "basic" (for lack of a better term) music and using that to create more and more. To get the students involved with experimental creation - I still find that it needs to be monitored, of course, so that it at least goes in a direction, but at the choosing of the students. Encouraging students to create their own music in such a fashion would get them further involved in participating in music.
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It was interesting, looking into the Image Junction project. Honestly, if the high school I worked with had the technology and patience, I think this idea of getting students to create music to a random video and then getting them familiar with the instruments to create "minimalist" music. I like this idea, honestly, because I'm biased towards the idea of creating "basic" (for lack of a better term) music and using that to create more and more. To get the students involved with experimental creation - I still find that it needs to be monitored, of course, so that it at least goes in a direction, but at the choosing of the students. Encouraging students to create their own music in such a fashion would get them further involved in participating in music.
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