K -12 Music Education,
Classroom Resources and Music Law
"MUSIC IS LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE IS MUSIC" ~ Karen Ellis
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K -12 Music Education, Classroom Resources and Music Law
Collaboration - Creativity - Composition. Music has it all!
CHAPTERS:
- Copyright Law and Music
- Free Music
- Learn How to make it in the 21st century Music Business now, the future of music and also find examples of
- Music Business Success Stories How does a musician make money? Find successful buisness models and learn how to cut through the white noise with no label, no PR firm, and no money to speak of.
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Teaching History Through
Roots / Routes Music / American Culture Makers And the role they played in shaping character.
Nursery Rhymes - Origins and History of Folksongs
Music Travels - History and a stolen legacy
Favorite Music Videos
2016 What a Well-rounded Music Education Should Mean for All Students - President Barack Obama passed a law in December that explicitly names music as a subject to be included in K-12 schools under the rubric of a well-rounded education. Prince played trumpet in the junior high school band
National Assocication for Music Education, has seventy thousand music educators working for the education of America's children; The Music Educators National Conference, and International Society for Music Education promotes music and argues for the inclusion of music as part of the early childhood curriculum; includes benefits of early music instruction and curriculum recommendations.
MUSIC IS THE AMBASSADOR TO CULTURE We can learn a lot about cultures just by listening to the music they create .
Children are particularly interested in music and there have been many studies showing the connection between music and brain development . Music can be used to help children learn to read. There are thousands of free music download sites where people can download and listen to music from all over the world. Music education is a critical element in a well balanced curriculum.
What is the evolutionary function of music?
Music | Ear Training
Music is Language.
Language is Music.
Evolutionary roots of Language
The key to learning the language is the tribe's singing.
The Pirahã habitually whittle nouns down to single syllables.
Phonemes (the sounds from which words are constructed) can feature
nasal whines and sharp intakes of breath, and sounds made by popping
or flapping the lips. Individual words were hard to learn, since
Also confounding was the tonal nature of the language: the meanings
of words depend on changes in pitch. (The words for “friend” and
“enemy” differ only in the pitch of a single syllable.) Pirahã, like
a few other Amazonian tongues, has male and female versions: the
women use one fewer consonant than the men do.
WHY DO CHILDREN SING?
Listen to Piraha sung speech
- two boys singing about a day's events.
RHYTHM
Rhythm, where does it come from?
William Condon Social Rhythm Researcher "synchrony is the main channel of awareness of sociality."
Music echoes speech , a given syllable is largely defined by the average pitch of the syllable's vowel.
Researchers in Serbia show that listening to
music every day reduces blood pressure
, heart rate, and patient anxiety, according to a seven-year study
of 740 patients.
Music and
Oral Culture
Music | Carl Orff | Unknow Culture Makers
Quote 2006
Kids
USED TO SAY:
"I KNOW that song"
NOW they say "I've GOT that song
"
Folklore and Traditional Culture Instruction Into K-12 Education
70,000 elementary schools in the country
70,000 music teachers in the country
NATIONAL CHILDREN'S FOLKSONG REPOSITORY
The Historic Electronic Online Archive - An Online Database of
Children's Folksongs. A Public Folklore Project built by the
children of the United States. Integrate Literacy, Music, and
Technology into the Classroom.
"STANDING IN THE SHADOWS OF MOTOWN"
Movie about the FUNK BROTHERS
To some, this movie represents the "soundtrack of my life". Grammy & Lifetime Achievement Award Winners Let your class use the computer for this create their own web quest. "Responsible Musicians, Artists, Athletes and Behind the Scenes People Who Support Education" have a message for children in your classroom FUNK BROTHERS WEB QUEST
ALL INFORMATION
IS SOFTWARE
Some software ARE programs
and some ARE music
and some ARE literature.
It makes no difference. ~ Bear
"I use the analogy of music. Writing a computer program is
analagous to writing a musical composition and putting it into
musical notation.
Preparing a computer program for distribution to end users (such
as home users or businesses) is analogous to having a person read
the music and play it on a piano that cuts piano rolls. The piano
rolls are analogous to packaged software. You can duplicate them,
too, so you have multiple rolls produced from one transcription
session by the person cutting the rolls. Running a program on a
computer is analogous to putting the piano roll into a player
piano. There are even portability issues. Piano rolls come in
different sizes. Not every roll can be played on every player
piano. As for ones and zeroes, a hole in the piano roll that lets
air through and causes a note to be played is like a one. A blank
spot on the roll with no hole is like a zero."
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Music | Online Lesson Plan | Music Makes You Smarter
Music is a natural intuitive phenomenon operating in the three
worlds of time, pitch, energy, and under the three distinct and
interrelated organization structures of rhythm, harmony, and melody.
While music is a natural intuitive phenomenon, composing,
improvising and performing it are art forms. Also, listening to it
can be a source of entertainment, while learning and understanding
it are disciplines.
"
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts
as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare."
~
Music education in North America can be traced to the colonies of
the seventeenth century. In the South, there existed no organized
music education system. However, rote learning played a major role
in the transmission of music traditions. In the Northern colonies,
music was already an important consideration in the lives of the
Pilgrims. The Bay Psalm Book, especially later editions, provided
methods for solmization along with performance instruction. Thus
Northern colonists could succeed in teaching themselves rudimentary
music skills, as related to psalm singing.
Music | Free Music Downloads
Traditionally, one of the major difficulties in defining music has been to use the word to try to describe all activities and things related to music and/or sound. For example, scores only become music through performance(s), or when (recorded) performances are replayed. Now it's about pull not push. Back in 2000, only college students, those on internet 2 and early adopters had high speed connections. Now seemingly everybody does. So, desirous of watching video, Now everybody is watching, and participating.
Music Law
Online File Sharing vs. Music Piracy
Nearly a century ago, a new technology emerged that changed the
music publishing industry forever by leaving a lasting impact on the
law. That new technology was the piano roll essentially long
perforated sheets that operated a player pianos keys. To make sure
that musical compositions were widely available for reproduction as
piano rolls and in other forms, Congress in 1909 enacted the Section
115 mechanical
compulsory license. This statutory mechanism allows anyone who wants
to make use of a musical work to obtain a license to reproduce and
distribute phonorecords of the work, in exchange for paying a
royalty set by statute, as long as the terms and conditions of
Section 115 are followed. In the original 1909 Act, Congress set the
statutory rate for reproducing and distributing musical works at 2
cents per song. Remarkably, this rate did not change for almost 70
years, until 1976.
The word music comes from the Greek mousikê
(tekhnê) (μουσικη (τεχνη)) by way of the Latin musica.
The word music is ultimately derived from mousa, the Greek word for
muse. In ancient Greece, the word mousike was used to mean any of
the arts or sciences governed by the Muses.
Later, in Rome, ars musica embraced poetry as well as what we now
think of as music. Our current understanding of music as being
something which is abstract and has nothing to do with language (but
something which may be combined with it in song) is relatively
modern.
In the European Middle Ages, musica was part of the mathematical
quadrivium - arithmetics, geometry, astronomy and musica. The
concept of musica was split into three major kinds: musica
universalis, musica mundana, musica instrumentalis. Of those, only
the last - musica instrumentalis - referred to music as performed
sound.
Music and Science The Whole Brain is a Rhythmic Organ
From a Tiny Hum
Came the Big Bang
The leading theory of how the universe could have exploded out of
the primordial nothingness, known as the theory of inflation,
predicts that the quantum fluctuations should have rattled the
universe in such a way that it resonated like a vast organ pipe,
with one main tone, or wavelength, and a series of overtones or
harmonics. Two detectors in Antarctica have discovered minute
patterns in a glow from primordial gases, possible traces of the
cosmic match that ignited the Big Bang and led to the creation of
the universe 14 billion years ago. The process was likely to have
taken place in a fraction of a second comparable to a decimal point
followed by 32 zeros and a 1. The new observations have found traces
of colossal waves, much like sound waves, that the fluctuations
probably set in motion, roiling the young universe.
http://nytimes.com/2001/04/30/science/30COSM.html?
ex=989669481&ei=1&en=32d612db51cede1
“In 1889, Nietzsche wrote, “Without music life would be a mistake.”
Music | Music and Brain Connections
President Clinton, remembering his own music teachers, said, "I
don't think I would have become president if it hadn't been for
school music."
Presidents Song
At school, the president said: "I learned that music was more than
scales and keys or how to make sure I was always in tune. Music
taught me how to mix practice and patience with creativity. Music
taught me how to be both an individual performer and a good member
of the team." And the lesson for everyone, he said, is that "we are
stronger when we are playing in harmony based on our common
humanity." First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton said the goal, is to
"to put music back in our schools and back in our children's
education."Playing music, she said, changes lives, by sparking the
creativity of young people, teaching discipline and persistence, and
serving as an anchor keeping kids in school and out of gangs and
destructive activity.
What does music have to do with improving education?
- Going back to Plato and Aristotle, music has been considered one the "Four Pillars of Learning."
- Plato said: "The decisive importance of education in poetry and music: rhythm and harmony sink deep into the recesses of the soul and take the strongest hold there. And when reason comes, he (the student) will greet her as a friend with whom his education has made him long familiar."
- Aristotle said: "We become a certain quality in our characters on account of music."
- Allan Bloom said: "Music is at the center of education, both for giving passions their due and for preparing the soul for the unhampered use of reason."
- PBS Music From the Inside Out
MUSICIANS ARE NOW AND ALWAYS HAVE BEEN
TECHNOLOGY ROCK STARS
WESTINGHOUSE
It was 1906. "Get Music on Tap Like Gas or Water" promised the
headlines, and soon the public was enchanted with inventor Thaddeus
Cahill's (1867-1934) electrical music by wire.
The Telharmonium was a 200-ton behemoth that created numerous
musical timbres and could flood many rooms with sound.
Beginning with the first instrument, constructed in the 1890's, and
continuing with the installation of the second instrument at
Telharmonic Hall in New York, the rise and fall of commercial
service, the attempted comeback of the third Telharmonium, and
ending with efforts to find a home for the only surviving instrument
in 1951, this documentary provides a definitive account of the first
comprehensive music synthesizer. (
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Max Matthews -- The First Computer Musician A pioneer who believed that computers were meant to empower humans to make music, not the other way around.
Laurie Spiegel Computer Wonder Women - The Early Computer Arts at Bell Labs and Space Music
no musicians, no music, no art
The irony is that a 4 year education at Berklee School of Music now
costs 200K all in. Tuition alone is up 1700 % since 1975. That's
hard to justify by the average young musician and his family.
Music used to mean something...used to be worth something to people.
Now it's there for the taking and our free music marketplace has
rendered it worthless to society... background noise. America is
killing off yet another one if its greatest natural resources...its
artists. And nobody but the artistic community seems to give a damn.
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