K -12 Music Education, Classroom Resources and Music Law
MUSIC IS LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE IS MUSIC ~ Karen Ellis
You will find the following topics related to Music Education:
Music Law, K-12 Music Education, Children's Music, National Children's Folksong Repository, Indigenous Folksong Reading Curriculum, Music Makes You Smarter, How Music Got so Loud, Mp3 files, Dr. Fancis Rauscher, Rhythm and Literacy, State Music Associations, Certification, Standards, Domino, Gordon Shaw, Kennedy Center, MENC, Orff, Philadelphia Orchestra, Kodaly, teaching history through music, and much more.
What is the evolutionary function of music?
Listen to Piraha sung speech - two boys singing about a day's events.
Evolutionary roots of Language - The key to learning the language is the tribe’s singing. The Pirahã habitually whittle nouns down to single syllables. Phonemes (the sounds from which words are constructed) can feature nasal whines and sharp intakes of breath, and sounds made by popping or flapping the lips. Individual words were hard to learn, since Also confounding was the tonal nature of the language: the meanings of words depend on changes in pitch. (The words for “friend” and “enemy” differ only in the pitch of a single syllable.) Pirahã, like a few other Amazonian tongues, has male and female versions: the women use one fewer consonant than the men do.
William Condon Social Rhythm Researcher "synchrony is the main channel of awareness of sociality."
Rhythm, where does it come from?
Music | Ear Training
National Assocication for Music Education, has seventy thousand music educators working for the education of America's children; The Music Educators National Conference, and International Society for Music Education promotes music and argues for the inclusion of music as part of the early childhood curriculum; includes benefits of early music instruction and curriculum recommendations.
ALL INFORMATION
IS SOFTWARE
Some software is programs and some is music and some is literature. It makes no difference. ~ Bear
"I use the analogy of music. Writing a computer program is analagous to writing a musical composition and putting it into musical notation.
Preparing a computer program for distribution to end users (such as home users or businesses) is analogous to having a person read the music and play it on a piano that cuts piano rolls. The piano rolls are analogous to packaged software. You can duplicate them, too, so you have multiple rolls produced from one transcription session by the person cutting the rolls. Running a program on a computer is analogous to putting the piano roll into a player piano. There are even portability issues. Piano rolls come in different sizes. Not every roll can be played on every player piano. As for ones and zeroes, a hole in the piano roll that lets air through and causes a note to be played is like a one. A blank spot on the roll with no hole is like a zero." *
MUSIC IS THE AMBASSADOR
TO CULTURE
We can learn a lot about cultures just by listening to the music they create. Children are particularly interested in music and there have been many studies showing the connection between music and brain development. Music can be used to help children learn to read. There are thousands of free music download sites where people can download and listen to music from all over the world. Music education is a critical element in a well balanced curriculum.
Music | Carl Orff
MUSIC AND ORAL CULTURE
Quote 2006
Kids
USED TO say:
"I KNOW
that song"
NOW they say
"I've GOT that song"
NATIONAL CHILDREN'S FOLKSONG REPOSITORY
The Historic Electronic Online Archive - An Online Database of Children's Folksongs. A Public Folklore Project built by the children of the United States. Integrate Literacy, Music, and Technology into the Classroom.
Folklore and Traditional Culture Instruction Into K-12 Education
70,000 elementary schools in the country
70,000 music teachers in the country
"STANDING IN THE SHADOWS OF MOTOWN"
Movie about the FUNK BROTHERS
To some, this movie represents the "soundtrack of my life". Grammy & Lifetime Achievement Award Winners Let your class use the computer for this create their own web quest. "Responsible Musicians, Artists, Athletes and Behind the Scenes People Who Support Education" have a message for children in your classroom FUNK BROTHERS WEB QUEST
Music | Online Lesson Plan | Music Makes You Smarter
Music is a natural intuitive phenomenon operating in the three worlds of time, pitch, energy, and under the three distinct and interrelated organization structures of rhythm, harmony, and melody.
While music is a natural intuitive phenomenon, composing, improvising and performing it are art forms. Also, listening to it can be a source of entertainment, while learning and understanding it are disciplines.
"Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts — as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare." ~ Herbert Spencer, British philosopher and sociologist
Music education in North America can be traced to the colonies of the seventeenth century. In the South, there existed no organized music education system. However, rote learning played a major role in the transmission of music traditions. In the Northern colonies, music was already an important consideration in the lives of the Pilgrims. The Bay Psalm Book, especially later editions, provided methods for solmization along with performance instruction. Thus Northern colonists could succeed in teaching themselves rudimentary music skills, as related to psalm singing.
Music teacher Andrea Peterson was named the 2007 National Teacher of the Year May 2007
Peterson, who comes from a family of educators (including her father, mother-in-law, and sisters-in-law) teaches at Monte Cristo Elementary School in Granite Falls, Washington. She is the 57th recipient of the notable award and only the second music instructor to be so honored. The National Teacher of the Year program, sponsored by the Council of Chief State School Officers and the ING Foundation, designates an outstanding representative from among 56 State Teachers of the Year (representing all 50 states, the District of Columbia, several outlying territories, and the Department of Defense Education Activity). The winner is selected by a panel of the 15 leading national education organizations. video
Granite Falls Monte Cristo Elementary School doesn't have a website!
And this teacher of the year doesn't have a web page!!
Music | Free Music Downloads
Traditionally, one of the major difficulties in defining music has been to use the word to try to describe all activities and things related to music and/or sound. For example, scores only become music through performance(s), or when (recorded) performances are replayed. Now it's about pull not push. The audience is in control. Bottom line, 68% of Web-users now connect via broadband.[1]
The MP3 player is the explosion. The revolution comes with broadband penetration. But back in 2000, only college students, those on internet 2 and early adopters had high speed connections. Now seemingly everybody does. So, desirous of watching video, and enticed by the price, Joe Sixpack is paying for broadband. And what he's getting is faster surfing, the ability to watch video and the right to experience the online digital music revolution.
Yes, music drove the online revolution of the twenty first century. People were signing up with their cable companies JUST to download music. Now everybody is watching, and participating because we live in a Wiki world.
The word music comes from the Greek mousikê (tekhnê) (μουσικη (τεχνη)) by way of the Latin musica. The word music is ultimately derived from mousa, the Greek word for muse. In ancient Greece, the word mousike was used to mean any of the arts or sciences governed by the Muses.
Later, in Rome, ars musica embraced poetry as well as what we now think of as music. Our current understanding of music as being something which is abstract and has nothing to do with language (but something which may be combined with it in song) is relatively modern.
In the European Middle Ages, musica was part of the mathematical quadrivium - arithmetics, geometry, astronomy and musica. The concept of musica was split into three major kinds: musica universalis, musica mundana, musica instrumentalis. Of those, only the last - musica instrumentalis - referred to music as performed sound.
Music and Science The Whole Brain is a Rhythmic Organ
From a Tiny Hum Came the Big Bang
The leading theory of how the universe could have exploded out of the primordial nothingness, known as the theory of inflation, predicts that the quantum fluctuations should have rattled the universe in such a way that it resonated like a vast organ pipe, with one main tone, or wavelength, and a series of overtones or harmonics. Two detectors in Antarctica have discovered minute patterns in a glow from primordial gases, possible traces of the cosmic match that ignited the Big Bang and led to the creation of the universe 14 billion years ago. The process was likely to have taken place in a fraction of a second comparable to a decimal point followed by 32 zeros and a 1. The new observations have found traces of colossal waves, much like sound waves, that the fluctuations probably set in motion, roiling the young universe. http://nytimes.com/2001/04/30/science/30COSM.html?
ex=989669481&ei=1&en=32d612db51cede1
Music | Music and Brain Connections
President Clinton, remembering his own music teachers, said, "I don't think I would have become president if it hadn't been for school music." Presidents Song
At school, the president said: "I learned that music was more than scales and keys or how to make sure I was always in tune. Music taught me how to mix practice and patience with creativity. Music taught me how to be both an individual performer and a good member of the team." And the lesson for everyone, he said, is that "we are stronger when we are playing in harmony based on our common humanity." First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton said the goal, is to "to put music back in our schools and back in our children's education."Playing music, she said, changes lives, by sparking the creativity of young people, teaching discipline and persistence, and serving as an anchor keeping kids in school and out of gangs and destructive activity.
What does music have to do with improving education?
- Going back to Plato and Aristotle, music has been considered one
the "Four Pillars of Learning." - Plato said: "The decisive importance of education in poetry and
music: rhythm and harmony sink deep into the recesses of the soul
and take the strongest hold there. And when reason comes, he (the
student) will greet her as a friend with whom his education has
made him long familiar." - Aristotle said: "We become a certain quality in our characters on
account of music." - Allan Bloom said: "Music is at the center of education, both
for giving passions their due and for preparing the soul for the
unhampered use of reason."
