Decoding the National Standards

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Decoding the National Standards

• Teaching principles instead of notes and rhythms

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The mission

• Organize and plan effective rehearsals that
  incorporate the 9 national standards
• By law, Tennessee teachers are instructed to
  implement these standards into their instruction
• District is enforcing it plans to have you
  publish your lesson plans online for a juried
  review.

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Our natural defense

• I already know how to teach music
• I already have too much to do alreadyhow can I
  ADD something else to what I am already doing?

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Digging deeper

• We werent taught this waywe are being asked to
  teach in a way that was never modeled to us.
• We are uncomfortable with what we are being asked
  to doand afraid that we are going to be
  evaluated (judged) harshly.

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The Standards

• 1. Singing, alone and with others, a varied
  repertoire of music.
• 2. Performing on instruments, alone and with
  others, a varied repertoire of music.
• 3. Improvising melodies, variations, and
  accompaniments.
• 4. Composing and arranging music within
  specified guidelines.
• 5. Reading and notating music.
• 6. Listening to, analyzing, and describing music.
  
• 7. Evaluating music and music performances.
• 8. Understanding relationships between music, the
  other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.
• 9. Understanding music in relation to history and
  culture.

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Where do you go for help?
Journals
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Uabchoirs.blogspot.com

• Google uab choir blog

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A quick review of Experiencing Choral Music

• Positive review
• Well organized
• Music is surprisingly diverse and interesting
• Documents national standards very well
• Provides an excellent model for implementation

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Some analysis on ECM
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Bottom line with ECM

• Provides an excellent model for the
  implementation of the national standards in
  choral music.

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How they did it

• An analytical look at the first ten pieces in the
  book.
• See my handout to you

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The Repertoire IS the Curriculum

• Repertoire determines everything we do and the
  standards we can teach
• Apfelstadt breaks down each of the national
  standards and applies repertoire selection

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If repertoire is the curriculum . .

• Most of the standards can be summed up in one
  question
• What can I teach through this about
  art-poetry-music-life through this piece of
  music?
• The National Standards offer us an opportunity to
  peer deeply into the music and explore each
  artistic tangent

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Activity Lets sing through Jeffery Ames In
Remembrance . . . . and then explore it for
what we can use to teach the National Standards.
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Using the approach from ECM

• Getting Started
• Musical Terms
• Links to Learning
• Vocal
• Theory
• Artistic expression
• Evaluation
• Teacher 2 Teacher
• Enrichment

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What we talked about

• Ideas

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Following the example

• Jubilate Deo

• In Remembrance

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Portion of In Remembrance
Can use as a vocal warm-up with entire choir,
SATB, moving up half-steps
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Relationships to other arts
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Enrichment

• Examine how the composer uses texts from the
  traditional Requiem Aeternum without directly
  referencing the Latin mass. Do you know other
  scripture or poetry that deals with loss?
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• Examine how the composer infuses other
  appropriate scriptures to depict the personal
  pain one feels from loss.
• Discussion question How does the word light in
  m. 54-59 differ from the beginning?
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• Topic for discussion How does the ABA form in
  music function dramatically?

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ABA Form

• Quote from Bernstein about Sonata form