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Question 1

why is music ed important

Answer 1

1. spacial task reasoning (math)
2. mode for emotional expression
3. learning another language
4. change my life, ca change others’

Question 2

Wayne Bowman value of philosophy

Answer 2

• be satisfied with not being able to come up with an answer to why something is important
• just teaching is like being a robot, you do what you were trained and told to do
• philosophy and reflection is needed to change the status quo and make it meaningful

Question 3

Form

Answer 3

• there are things that words can’t describe

- doesn’t have to be verbal or visible

Question 4

Plato

Answer 4

• music provides balance to 3 parts of the soul (rational, spiritual, phsycial)
• music is an imitation of forms of the ideal
• has power over people in their values, thoughts, and actions
• music can reveal universal truths which make it very powerful

Question 5

Hegel

Answer 5

• music is to provide self-awareness needed for making an ascent to a knowledge of truth
• music turns attention away from external and toward internal, allows for exposure of self and development of self-knowledge
• the more sophisticated it is the closer we get to the ideal truth

Question 6

Langer

Answer 6

• real of knowledge is inner life
• music symbolizes realm of knowledge b/c it has similar forms to feeling
• a means for expressing feeling, but doesn’t necessarily evoke it
• objectifies feeling in a general sense by putting it into the external world

Question 7

Demasio

Answer 7

• nature of feeling vs. emotion
• buoy in the ocean- never two emotions are are the same, can verbalize the one on top that covers all the smaller ones but not all

Question 8

Reimer

Answer 8

• creating music as musicians and listening to music creatively does precisely and exactly for feeling what writing and reading does for words
• writing and reading words leads to conceptual reasoning
• creating and listening to music leads to feeling
• music is important to all human beings
• more in need of a feeling education b/c it’s more of who we are, we are more our inner life than cognitive life

Question 9

Things to do in a rehearsal

Answer 9

• start with recordings of works you are playing
• create challenges for everyone in the ensemble- easy for beginners but layered for advanced
• offer extra credit for doing things without messing up
• use a metronome
• have them number their measures
• put stronger players next to weaker players
• keep all sections involved at all times
• 1 word instructions

Question 10

How do students come to class the first day

Answer 10

• developed listening literacies

- responded to music and have preferences

Question 11

reasons for life music listening

Answer 11

• enjoyment
• creativity
• boredom
• comfort
• popularitiy
• stress release
• creating an image
• loneliness
• emotion regulation

Question 12

Life music

Answer 12

music that students listen to outside of the classroom- not formal listening

Question 13

How does the new music literacy model make us look at music

Answer 13

looking at the way its performed, how the musicians move, how does it swell

Question 14

Listening Literacies

Answer 14

• pitch adjustments in ensembles
• in context (things you’re working on)
• out of context (still related to literature but different)
• tap purposefully into inner life (what do they imagine)
• bracketing (get rid of all preconceptions and focus on the now)
• being open to unfamiliar
• familiarity with technique
• familiarity with compositional device
• familiarity with a music element

Question 15

what are ways to make connections

Answer 15

• personal experiences, knowledge and ideas

- varied contexts, daily life, other subjects, societies

Question 16

when does connecting happen

Answer 16

in all other aspects of the standards