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 The Iowa Comprehensive Musicianship Project
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simply try to find out as much as you can about the piece, the
composer, and any context surrounding the music itself. If you are
doing a piece by Bach or Beethoven this is pretty easy. Classical
composers have had hundreds of years to be analyzed, researched, and
written about by hundreds of authors. For current composers though
this is a lot more difficult as very little is available both on the
Internet and in print about them. One of the biggest complaints that
my group of middle and elementary band directors had is the lack of
useful information out there for people that we consider to be major
current composers. In most cases you are only able to find the
composer's biography and a smattering of program notes found through
web searches.
A CMP Resource Directory!
It occured to me while doing my research that
while I might read another teacher's lesson plan to get some ideas, I
would likely be better off just having access to the resources they
used so that I can develop my own lesson, personalized to my style.
Being the techie that I am I created a part of my web site that I am
going to use to catalog all of the research that I do for my classes,
and I openly suggest that other teachers consider contributing to it to
help each other out.
Basically I have created a mini directory
for composers, both dead and living , that can have subcategories for
each of their individual compositions. If you find a little gem of
research or a physical resource that you think other teachers might be
able to use when rehearsing the same piece then add a bookmark to it.
I will see the new submissions and categorize each one of them into the
appropriate category. If a composer or a composition is not listed
then submit the bookmark anyway and I will add a category for it. I
would hope that the Comprehensive Musicanship Project staff would
consider doing something similar, but in the interim all teachers are
encouraged to contribute to the one here at MusicEdMagic.
Other Comprehensive Musicianship Project related articles here at MusicEdMagic:
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