Friday, May 7, 2010
RJA #15: Reflection
ENG 1020 has taught me many things about english and the writting process. It has also allowed me to form an opinion on how colleges should be teaching music undergraduate students. I think the most prominante tool I have taken from this class is the ability to form my knowledge into something that others can read, understand and colaborate with. It is not hard to have an opinion or idea about something but it is hard to share it will a large group of others. Getting your words right and structuring your writting in a way that can be understood and discussed is not an easy task but is very important. This class furthered my knowlede on how to organize and illustrate, through words, what I want to say and what I want the words to mean. That kind of knowledge can be taken to basicly any job situation The study of my topic also helped me discover some things about colleges and my opinion on teaching music. This will help me greatly in my future endeavors of taching by allowing me to grow with my opinions of teaching. I had a pretty good time with this class.
Monday, May 3, 2010
RJA #14b: Application Project References
Gill, N. S. (n.d.). Oral Tradition - What Is an Oral Tradition?. About.com. Retrieved (2010, May 4) from http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/homer/f/OralTradition.htm
Tabla. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.taalim.com/about_tabla.htm
African drums. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.african-drumming.co.uk/
Fernstrom, M. (1997, March 02). Music notation: an issue of purpose and use in traditional music. Retrieved from http://www.ul.ie/~idc/library/papersreports/MikaelFernstrom/music01/music01.html
Schimpf, Dr. Peter. Personal interview, 11 Apr. 2010.
Tabla. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.taalim.com/about_tabla.htm
African drums. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.african-drumming.co.uk/
Fernstrom, M. (1997, March 02). Music notation: an issue of purpose and use in traditional music. Retrieved from http://www.ul.ie/~idc/library/papersreports/MikaelFernstrom/music01/music01.html
Schimpf, Dr. Peter. Personal interview, 11 Apr. 2010.
RJA #14a: Application Project Progress Report
1) What the project is:
I plan on writting four journal entries from the point of view of a new music undergrad student that is entering a program that has adopted a new requirment that all undergrad students in the music degree program must learn a oral traditional instrument. The entries will be a year apart and will show how the program is progressing the student. The students attitude will get better and better by the end of the entries. This will demonstrate the value of having music undergrad students learn oral traditional music.
2) Accomplished:
I have found all of my sources and there are three differnt types. I have a brief outline of how my journal entries will unfold and prove the point. I have set the time line for the journal entries.
3) Still need to do:
I need to figure out what information will be included in each journal entry. I still need to develop a slight character that is writting the entries such as their voice and what instruments they play and so on. I need to write the rough draft as a whole.
I plan on writting four journal entries from the point of view of a new music undergrad student that is entering a program that has adopted a new requirment that all undergrad students in the music degree program must learn a oral traditional instrument. The entries will be a year apart and will show how the program is progressing the student. The students attitude will get better and better by the end of the entries. This will demonstrate the value of having music undergrad students learn oral traditional music.
2) Accomplished:
I have found all of my sources and there are three differnt types. I have a brief outline of how my journal entries will unfold and prove the point. I have set the time line for the journal entries.
3) Still need to do:
I need to figure out what information will be included in each journal entry. I still need to develop a slight character that is writting the entries such as their voice and what instruments they play and so on. I need to write the rough draft as a whole.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
RJA #13c: Application Project Example
Online Journal of David Byrne:
http://journal.davidbyrne.com/
This entry has the organization that I will be using. The date and a title at the top to give a brief description of what the entry will be talking about. The entry comes right after in a variety of lengths just like someone would expect a personal journal to be. The content of Byrne's journal does have some music related topics but is very different from the content I will be putting in my project. The entries are organized in order of the date which is how I will organize m project as well. It will demonstrate the change in mentality of the the student over the period of his schooling.
http://journal.davidbyrne.com/
This entry has the organization that I will be using. The date and a title at the top to give a brief description of what the entry will be talking about. The entry comes right after in a variety of lengths just like someone would expect a personal journal to be. The content of Byrne's journal does have some music related topics but is very different from the content I will be putting in my project. The entries are organized in order of the date which is how I will organize m project as well. It will demonstrate the change in mentality of the the student over the period of his schooling.
RJA #13b: Application Project Plan
For my application project I plan on writing a few journal entries in from the point of view of a college student just entering his music undergraduate program. The college is making some changes to the requirements to graduate by adding more emphasis on oral traditional music. The first entry will be more or less expressing his concern for the schools program and how it is unfair to him. He will feel that it is unnecessary to learn oral traditional music and all that requirement does is make it harder to get a degree. In the second entry, it will be year later and his attitude will have slightly shifted and but he will still not be happy with having to learn oral traditional music. I will then do three more entries, two for the beginning of each year and one for when he receives his diploma. At the end he will express his gratitude for learning more about oral traditional music and how it has helped him become a better and a more in demand musician.
Essentially my project will follow a college student through his music undergrad program in a college that has adopted my suggestion for requiring students to not only learn notated western methods but also oral traditional methods. Five entries total, one for the beginning of each year and one at his graduation.
Essentially my project will follow a college student through his music undergrad program in a college that has adopted my suggestion for requiring students to not only learn notated western methods but also oral traditional methods. Five entries total, one for the beginning of each year and one at his graduation.
RJA #13a: Word Cloud
Thursday, April 15, 2010
RJA #12a: Annotated Bibliography, Part 3
Jones, Catherine, and Russell Jones. "Ear Training." Connexions. Ed. Catherine Jones. N.p., 12 Apr. 2010. Web. 16 Apr. 2010.
This is an online article that describes the uses and foundations of ear training. I will use this source to connect the oral tradition and how it trains your ear and how the notated method of learning music trains the ear. The article talks music about the skills learned from ear training such as tuning, chords, improvisation and intervals. These are mostly important in all music but the differences of how they are taught work the brain differently. The article is written by someone whom has a B.A. in music so it is not the most credible but it is accurate.
Campbell, Patricia S. "Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: Cultural Diversity in Music Education." Artists House Music. N.p., 27 Aug. 2006. Web. 16 Apr. 2010..
This article is primarily about the cultural diversity needed for music education. I am going to use the source to demonstrate how a more diverse musician can work with a greater variety of musicians. Knowing a little about more music can help a musician adapt where as if they only know one type of music very well, they are too limited. The article gives good opinions and facts on how culturally diverse music can be and how it makes a better musician (and even person in general). Also, music should be an eye opener not something that closes you off to new things, and this article agrees with this statement.
McDonald, Heather. "How to make money as a musician." About.com. N.p., 2010. Web. 16 Apr. 2010..
Having a general statement of how a musician can make money is a good for my paper. In general, we go to college to increase our earning potential and this article has some basic outlines. I can use these to show that what musicians are learning in school is maybe a bit too narrow and should be broadened. The information is not extremely detailed but gives good insights into the basics, which is what I need. I can elaborate in the paper on the importance of the information.
Kostka, Stefan, and Dorothy Payne. Tonal Harmony. sixth ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2009. Print.
This is a theory book that covers many ranges of theory starting with Bach and ending with modern styles and compositions. Theory is the analysis of the art of notation and therefore is useful in my paper for descriptions on the significance of the notated method of teaching. I can also use this book to demonstrate how oral music does not follow western theory for the most part. It also demonstrates that some oral music did originate from the same place that notated music did.
This is an online article that describes the uses and foundations of ear training. I will use this source to connect the oral tradition and how it trains your ear and how the notated method of learning music trains the ear. The article talks music about the skills learned from ear training such as tuning, chords, improvisation and intervals. These are mostly important in all music but the differences of how they are taught work the brain differently. The article is written by someone whom has a B.A. in music so it is not the most credible but it is accurate.
Campbell, Patricia S. "Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: Cultural Diversity in Music Education." Artists House Music. N.p., 27 Aug. 2006. Web. 16 Apr. 2010.
This article is primarily about the cultural diversity needed for music education. I am going to use the source to demonstrate how a more diverse musician can work with a greater variety of musicians. Knowing a little about more music can help a musician adapt where as if they only know one type of music very well, they are too limited. The article gives good opinions and facts on how culturally diverse music can be and how it makes a better musician (and even person in general). Also, music should be an eye opener not something that closes you off to new things, and this article agrees with this statement.
McDonald, Heather. "How to make money as a musician." About.com. N.p., 2010. Web. 16 Apr. 2010.
Having a general statement of how a musician can make money is a good for my paper. In general, we go to college to increase our earning potential and this article has some basic outlines. I can use these to show that what musicians are learning in school is maybe a bit too narrow and should be broadened. The information is not extremely detailed but gives good insights into the basics, which is what I need. I can elaborate in the paper on the importance of the information.
Kostka, Stefan, and Dorothy Payne. Tonal Harmony. sixth ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2009. Print.
This is a theory book that covers many ranges of theory starting with Bach and ending with modern styles and compositions. Theory is the analysis of the art of notation and therefore is useful in my paper for descriptions on the significance of the notated method of teaching. I can also use this book to demonstrate how oral music does not follow western theory for the most part. It also demonstrates that some oral music did originate from the same place that notated music did.
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