04.19.06 Week 13

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04.19.06 Week 13
From Notes to Music Guests MSU string quartet,
Dr. Nat Chaikan, Director.
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Presentations Papers
See Handout for Guidelines
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Reflections on presentations
Television News - Adela Uchida Film Critique -
East Lansing Film Festival
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The gifted listener and the gifted learner
innocence (being open to new experience), not
jaded, or knowing too much and also to be
critical (to analyze ones own experience as well
as the music) trained professional and the
innocence to the intuitive amateur imagination
is essential, and the ability to lend oneself to
the power of the music ability to see
different shades
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Similarities between composer, conductor, and
teacher? the teacher is the facilitator,
brings out the nuance in the music, gets the idea
from composer to the audience teacher as
conductor and orchestra? teacher as composer
finding some way of communicating to the
audience teachers and students can share
similar roles composing is an act of
self-expression, self-discovery
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Coplands sonorous image, teaching and
learning the image is a overall feel of an
experience a classroom can also have an overall
feel in music, the image emerges from the
coming together of many things - tone, rhythm,
orchestration, pitch. In teaching, the image
arises from the layout of the class, the objects
in the room, the curriculum, the sound of the
talk, the rhythm, the cadence, etc. teachers,
like composers, have an important influence on
the sonorous image of their class the image
is a feel, an aesthetic quality of the experience
of a classroom or a piece of music
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