A great deal learned from Green and Musical Futures

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.