Michael Davis's Music is the Revolution ofers mini grants to K-12 music teachers. The application is a PDF file. Check it out!
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If you spend a lot of time with your hymnal, you deserve a way cool personal hymnal marker. It;s easy to make special ones for different seasons, or to make them as gifts. Do you have someone really special in your choir who really deserves one? The Kansas City Symphony joined music teacher Josepha Haden Chomphosy in her classroom at First Presbyterian in Liberty, Mo for an Instrument Petting Zoo. It helps to have an in -- Josepha sings with the symphony. But everyone can call their local symphony, high school or college band, or music store and ask for help. It's one of the biggest issues for volunteer choirs: attendance. How do you plan music, check balance, and work on getting songs off the page when you never know who's going to show up? Music is a language. I don't mean this in the abstract "the Language of Flowers" kind of way, I mean it literally. The basic ideas of opposites (loud v. soft, fast v. slow, et al) are like learning the basic sounds of your native tongue. Learning the specific parts of music (measures, note names, rest names) is like learning words of your language. Learning to read music (time signatures, key signature and the like) is like learning to construct sentences. In our choir room, the music is sort of alphabetized. Except that some of it is in the Easter drawer, and some in the Youth drawer, and some in --- well, suffice it to say, it's only possible to find music if you are privy to the original filer's inmost thoughts about that music. |
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