1. Complete Musicianship: Supporting Independent Musicianship through Technology Rick Dammers Rowan University NJ TI:ME In-service October 25, 2007

2. Big Ideas Brainstorming Examples from Practice & Research Sharing

3. Music technology does not matter Musical learning does

4. Systems Approach: People and purposes before technology

5. Two opportunities: Complete Musicianship Reaching the ‘Other 80%’

6. Grout (1966) Typically, a person studying music “is engaged in perfecting his skills at manipulating some kind of instrument for the purpose of producing musical sounds… But really it is as if one were to say, ‘I am studying English literature,’ when in fact he is cultivating his voice so as to pronounce words and sentences in as pleasing a manner as possible.” (p.132) Grout, D. (1966). The divorce of music and learning. In B.C. Kowall (Ed.), Perspectives in music education: Source book III. (pp. 131-138). Washington D. C.: Music Educators National Conference.

7. Comprehensive Musicianship Creativity Music Cognition Individual Needs (Differentiation)

8. Musical Independence

10. Sing Play Compose Improvise Read, Notate Listen, Describe and Analyze Connect to Arts, Disciplines Connect Historically

11. Strategies for Composing Curricular Group Project Individual Project Enrichment Club Independent Study

12. Group Product Fifth Grade Band March Listening to Marches Composing Melodies Assessing Melodies Performance

13. Write an 8 to 12 measure melody Use the B flat scale Begin and end on first scale degree Use four measure phrase Write out chord progression Listen often, make revisions so it makes sense to your ear

14. Two composing sessions Many students had multiple melodies Some e-mailed melodies from home

17. Master Score Cut and Paste from each student’s file Transposed for each instrument Edit for range

18. Distributed the melodies to band One week to play at home Vote for the five best melodies

20. Performance

21. Integrated Project In-rehearsal composition Individual mini-project Explore concepts from rehearsal Not designed for public performance

22. Integrated Project

23. Eighth grade band Compose a melody Form Tonal Centers Rhythmic feature

24. Wide Range- Modest Ability StudentsStudents Rating M=3.62 SD= 2.02 Craftsmanship

26. Connect (from the podium) Individualized assignments Feedback Individual Performance

27. After School Club Flexible Informal Social dynamics

28. Independent Study High School Junior (Tuba) Woodwind Quintet Brass Quintet Full Band

29. Composition Outcomes High Level of Student Ownership Community Support and Recognition Comprehensive Musicianship

30. Ideas Sing Play Compose Improvise Read, Notate Listen, Describe and Analyze Connect to Arts, Disciplines Connect Historically