CORNERSTONE OVERVIEW
PRIOR KNOWLEDGE (Before the Unit)
Even with high school performing ensembles, very few assumptions are made about student’s prior knowledge other than close study experience. Where prior knowledge is needed, the instructional outline itemizes the required concepts in the "Prior Knowledge" section. As teachers progress through this cornerstone’s sequence of lessons, for most of them, they will be able to maintain the normal ensemble rehearsal routines and simply incorporate 1 or 2 extra steps, but teachers should not have to deviate much from the norm. That being said, the only other prior knowledge assumed of this cornerstone is that the ensemble is comprised of a level-appropriate grouping of students who are undertaking the endeavor to rehearse and perform music, and that the group has a baseline set of best-practices, rehearsal procedures and routines, in which students are versed and equipped to participate as fully as their ability will allow.
PLACEMENT WITHIN THE UNIT
Before:
A Close Study should have happened at the very beginning of the school year. The ability to examine a piece of music through listening, analysis, and evaluation are skills that students in performing ensembles should be comfortable with by the start of
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Music teachers and students may become concerned about finding published ensemble repertoire because of a unique instrumentation, availability of desired selections, as well as your preferences of arranging style, rhythmic interpretation, voicing, difficulty, or fit. For these and other reasons you may prefer to create custom arrangements or even original compositions. You may consider some of the following ideas in order to implement custom
1. Calvin Coolidge - Governor of Massachusetts who later became the 30th President of the U.S. He is significant because he was involved in the Boston Police Strike. Coolidge called out the National Guard to restore order and was praised for saving the nation from communism and anarchy. 2.
Just 29 years after America defeated its mother country Great Britain, they were at war with them again. Washington issued a proclamation asking his countrymen to be impartial to Britain and France. Then John Adams agreed to the convention of 1800, which ended the alliance between the U.S. and France. After Adams, Jefferson created the Embargo of 1807 because France and Britain was violating the U.S.’s trading rights, seizing cargoes, and kidnapping sailors. The embargo failed to make Britain respect America’s trading rights, so when James Madison can into presidency in 1809 he had the same problem.
Anyone could audition to become a member of the group, and prospective members were adjudicated by current group members. Ms. Reeves Allen put no ceiling on her group. By offering an unlimited number of members, everyone that was deserving of a position with the group received one. The Beginners group focused on basic training, building a technical foundation, and body awareness. The Intermediate group focused on expanding the technical knowledge and foundation built in the Beginners level, and introduced a focus on movement quality, choreographic abilities, and a development of musicality.
The creation of the United States is considered by many to be a great experiment in democracy. After the War of 1812, America was filled with tremendous nationalism and as the young country grew, many nations look to it as both an inspiration and a warning. Americans seemed united behind their president James Monroe, who was elected in 1816 and then ran uncontested for his second term in 1820. However, even during this time there were many discussions and arguments within the nation’s own government regarding the benefits of democracy.
This primary author/contributor of the form is the Brownsburg Education Foundation Grant Committee. This is a diverse committee made up of volunteer community members, educators, and business leaders. This committee is also associated with Brownsburg schools. The secondary author is Marie Kirkeiner, who is proposing this project to gain support from the grant. Based on personal knowledge, I know that she is genuine in her purpose because she is an elementary music educator who has led similar projects.
As time went from the 16th century to the 18th century, the Renaissance thinking transformed to the Scientific Revolution. Soon, it would enable a worldview in which people were not invoking the principles of religion as often as the Renaissance. As an example, these natural philosophers, known as scientists today, developed a new thinking in which the world was no longer geocentric. The thought of an Earth-centered universe as the Bible would say, transformed as heliocentric or in other words Sun-centered. Within this period, Scientists were starting to understand the world’s functions, for they created experiment methods incorporating discipline, mathematics, and the essential Scientist communication.
Primary sources are documents written by those who experienced a particular event first hand. They help students understand what it was like to live through certain occasions and allows them to comprehend what all is happening besides the fighting in the war. These sources give insight and more detailed experiences that one would not learn through a textbook or even in school. Textbooks tend to leave out significant events that are important in the history of the United States. "
Music has a powerful impact on people, and can change people in a dramatic way. When people go to concerts, they don’t only listen to the music being played, they also look at what music and songs they are playing or singing, and the order of the songs. The order of the concert has an effect over whether the audience will enjoy the music or not. Above, I listed what I think the order of the songs should be. The concert repertoire should be in this certain order, based on our concert’s intended purpose, what our audience is feeling during the concert, and what Christmas means to each individual in the audience and performing.
In the 20th Century, labor unions did not destroy the free market by encumbering business with regulations essentially penalizing the wealthy for being successful because the employees just wanted better working conditions with a higher pay and the employees were doing what they believed in to be right The Labor Unions did not destroy the free market by encumbering businesses with regulations essentially penalizing the wealthy from being successful because the employees just wanted better working conditions with a higher pay. The workers were being patient in receiving the working conditions they asked for. Document A states how there were always new developments that were being made in the working environment, but it did not benefit the working men who did all the work, but it only benefited the employers. Also, in the book The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, it describes the working conditions for Elzbieta and it gives a brief description on how the work environment contemplated, it describes the work place to have no windows, but only electricity. In addition, the cause of having no sunlight caused the people to look as if they were not living anymore.
Final Draft We all have stories and memories tied to songs that have become a part of who are. Remember the violins playing in the background while watching a sad movie or the song that helped you through difficult times or the song you and your friends sang while attending a concert? Whether it’s on the television, the radio, in a movie, in the car, or at a sporting event, music is everywhere. Feeling the rhythm of music brings us so much joy and excitement but playing musical instrument is even more fulfilling because it has many benefits.
Music education provides personal benefits to students that enrich their lives. In the study of perceived benefits of music by Dimitra Kokotsaki and Susan Hallam, it was found that “participating in an ensemble enhanced feelings of self-achievement for the study’s participants, assisted individuals in overcoming challenges, built self-confidence, and raised determination to make more effort to meet group expectations regarding standards of playing” (12). In an ensemble, every member is equally important, from the first chair to the last chair. Thus every person must be able to play all of their music and be ready for anything. When one person does not practice their music and comes to rehearsal unprepared, it reflects upon the whole ensemble.
Musicians are not expected to follow a rubric or pattern, but rather to ‘play around’ with the music provided and to make it their own as individual
Some of the people may or may not be able to preform at the same level as other people.
“Music for 18 Musicians” is an excellent example of pulse music. In terms of structure, instrumentation and harmony are unique, compared to his previous works. The basic material consist of a sequence of eleven chords which are heard at the beginning and the end of the work. These chords, repeated in pulsing and sustained notes for the length of two breaths of the bass clarinetists, are examined one by one over a period of five minutes as the basic harmony over which longer musical periods are later elaborated. The piece has an arch structure:
Assuming that filial piety can be primed, in creating a priming study, there are two parts. The first part of the study is the priming task where we make filial piety temporarily accessible. Supraliminal priming is when the participants are aware of the prime but not the potential effects of the prime. This type of priming should be used in this study. The label of the task is an important consideration, as participants should not know the effect of what we are trying to prime.