Music Education, Choral Music, and writings inspired from discussions on social media platforms.
Music Students and Teachers! – Responses Needed!
For the next issue of Leading Notes Magazine, I’m exploring the differences between the criteria students and directors choose or “wish to choose” their ensemble’s repertoire. Feel free to leave an anonymous comment, but be sure to identify yourself as a student or current educator! Students: If you could choose 2-3 pieces for your current ensemble to perform, what would they be and why? Feel free to provide youtube recordings, etc! Teachers: How do you go about choosing repertoire for your ensembles? Do you take...
read moreArticle Featured on MajoringInMusic.com
There is a new website for students that provides information about majoring in music, MajoringInMusic.Com. They have linked my MusicEdMajor.net article, “Don’t Waste Your Electives,” as a resource in their Music Degrees section, which covers all of the bases about considering majoring/minoring in music. Here is the Music Degrees page, check it...
read morePrepping for the School Year
Once again summer vacation has mysteriously disappeared and I’ll be back in the swing of things in a couple weeks. While I’m very sad that my days of sleeping in and watching hours and hours of shows on the food network, I am looking forward to being back on a schedule and taking classes again! The Music Education Blog Carnival is starting up again, with the September issue being hosted at Yoon Soon Lim’s blog, Sing Imagination. In her post to announce her hosting, she posted some questions to spark some thought for those...
read moreLeading Notes Summer Issue: Connections!
Hello there! Leading Notes has just released their second issue: Connections. It’s a great collection of articles from students, music educators, and even family members! Please check out my article: Connecting for Music, and the rest of the issue at LeadingNotes.org! Tweet about it, “Like” Leading Notes on FaceBook, email the link out…yell about it on the streets! Share it with whoever will listen/read! Also, check out the Summer Book Club! James Jordan is a fantastic writer, educator, and all-around human...
read moreSeminar Reflections
I just gave a “dual session” seminar on “Social Media and Web 2.0 Tools in the Music Classroom” for my Trends and Issues in Music Education class. It was a lot of fun to put together, and an interesting topic to further explore in an academic sense! Here is the slideshow from both seminars: Social Media in Music Education View more presentations from Lindsay Morelli. Activities: 1. The class was given a “social media survey” that I made to share and discuss how everyone was using social media, if they...
read moreWhat I Learned from “Bossypants”
I know what you are thinking: 1. “Where have you been?” 2. “I hate seeing that your recent posts are all Weekly Tweet archives.” 3. “What does Bossypants have to do with anything music related? Isn’t that the point of your site?’ My answers: 1. Grad schooling! But have no fear, I’m only taking 2 Maymester courses at night so I will have more time to do more creative things and write about music! Unfortunately, I’ve been a ghost at #MusEdChat, and will unfortunately have to remain as one as...
read moreVirtual Choir 2.0
Eric Whitacre has done it again. Creating musical experiences for how music should be intended: to be shared, to leave an impression, to express the seeming-meaningless to some, to create meaning for others, and most importantly to create connections. Connections between music and text, poet and composer, composer and music, composer and choir, choir with music, choir with text, choir within choir (though in most cases without face-to-face or any conversing…strictly through music), and now, music/text/choir/ with the world. It’s...
read moreExperimenting with Shrook and Syndicated Press
Shrook I was wandering around the Mac App World store to see if there were any good free productivity apps, because who doesn’t love free apps that may enhance the products of your life? I stumbled upon Shrook, a fairly new RSS feed reader that sits right in your dock if you so choose to let it reside there. You can separate your feeds into groups to keep your reading organized. For me, I have the categories: Music Education – websites and blogs by educators and music students Music News – general music news, such as NPR or...
read moreInaugural Issue of Leading Notes
Two members of the MPLN, Justine Dolorfino and Nick Jaworski have started an online magazine focusing on current philosophies and practices in music education. Their first issue will focus on, “The State of the Profession,” collecting views from current music educators and students. I’m really excited to see this project develop and serve the music education community as a valuable resource of knowledge and discussion. Please visit LeadingNotes.org tomorrow for their first issue, and look for my article! ...
read moreSCMEA 2011 Reflection
SCMEA was awesome! Though I only got to attend two sessions due to exhibit booth obligations, I gained a lot of new knowledge and purchased some great materials! (My debit card cried a little bit these last two days!…Whoops!) In the past, I have posted some favorite quotes from some of James Jordan’s books on my site. The randomly bought The Musician’s Soul on Amazon because I was looking for something musically geeky to read, and after reading the summary I decided it was just what I was looking for. Then I read the book and...
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