MUSC 355

 

Module 6 Group Project Presentations

Unit 12, Nov. 06-12

Introduction

Objective (Fullfilled in Unit 13)

Bassoons in the TU Orchestra
Students playing bassoon in the TU orchestra
 

Music Avocation and Vocation

Music: Vocation vs. Avocation (Introduction)

LECTURE: Music: Vocation vs. Avocation; Limiting of Music Study as a Trade vs. Accessibility to Public; Employment Issues (Part I, 8 min.) player | mp4
 transcript pdf
United States Labor Department: Bureau of Labor Statistics (Outlook for Musicians and Singers) weblink
Mandate Against the Unauthorized Playing of Trumpets and Beating of Military Kettledrums (1736) pdf
“The Juilliard Effect: Ten Years Later” by Daniel J. Wakin weblink | pdf
LECTURE: Music: Vocation vs. Avocation; Limiting of Music Study as a Trade vs. Accessibility to Public; Employment Issues (Part II, 5 min.) player | mp4 |
 transcript pdf

Blair Tindall’s Mozart in the Jungle (Excerpt from Chapter 20: Les Miserables, pp. 258-260 Back up Copy; Encore Back up Copy; The Lark Ascending, pp. 304-307)  Course readings are available on the course Blackboard site. See the link on the left under "Tools." 

Freeway Philharmonic Trailer weblink | copy player | mp4

Auditions, Senza Sordino Article, pp. 4,11 pdf (only needed pages) | weblink (pdf, entire journal)
"Surviving the Cut" weblink | pdf
"The Audition" weblink | pdf

Ethical issues of music education

LECTURE: Music: Vocation vs. Avocation; Limiting of Music Study as a Trade vs. Accessibility to Public; Employment Issues (Part III, ) player | mp4 | wmv | transcript pdf
"Musical training can improve language and reading" weblink | pdf
"The Basic Value of Music Study" National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) pdf. This is a lengthy article and you are not expected to read it in detail. Quickly survey the arguments for music.
LECTURE: "Shall We Sing a Religious Song?"  player (searchable, cc) | mp4 | wvm | transcript
R. Collin Mangrum's "Shall We Sing? Shall We Sing Religious Music? weblink | pdf (required reading--only the introduction and conclusion, pp. 815-825 & p. 866 to the end)

 

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Assignments (Nov. 12)

Journal 10. Use this template
                                

Group Research (Start Now)

Scenarios for the final papers appear in the 

Journal 13 template

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