Blog post 10:
Last blog of the summer! Hard to believe the program is already coming to an end for this summer.
General thoughts:
This class definitely challenged me to be a better writer. One thing I thought a lot more about was giving proper credit to writers in citations and being more careful not to plagiarize original ideas. I will always remember to try to make my writing more concise, as Strunk and White advised in our reading for the very first blog!
Resources I will use over the next school year (teaching):
1. My annotated bibliography! I'm going to be starting a violin ensemble for the first time (in the past two years of starting a music program at my school, I've put together lessons but not an ensemble component) that will include instruction in jazz. The annotated bibliography was a good way for me to look at the resources that are out there for teaching jazz to string players and consider what would be the best approach for my program.
I'm also going to be starting an Afro-Cuban percussion ensemble at my school, which brings me to more resources I will need...
2. I've already been doing a lot of listening on Naxos and Smithsonian Global Sound to try to familiarize myself with Afro-Cuban genres (samba, bossa nova, salsa, bachata, son, etc), which I have a very limited knowledge about. I will continue to use these great listening sources.
3. I will also need lots of books about teaching Afro-Cuban percussion. I will probably be using the New York Public Library and Brooklyn Public Library a lot. Now that I have knowledge of how to search efficiently, and should be able to find what I need faster!
Thursday, August 7, 2014
Monday, August 4, 2014
Blog post 9:
Watt: The part on the quote that might be mis-attributed seemed relevant because I know that many quotes online are wrongly attributed. Also, many photos are posted online with incorrect historical information/ misleading information. The point about the scholar using old texts that were digitized was also interesting: I have found the same experience with finding digital materials to be easier to use. Watt makes an interesting point that students seeing their professors in the library and vice versa allows us to draw parallels between the tasks of research and studying.
The video on Harry Potter was relevant to me because my boyfriend is a sound engineer and does a lot of composing for video, mostly advertisements and documentaries. I thought it was interesting how the composers had to create music that worked for different types of scenes in the game: combat (interactive), cut scenes (linear) and then some other scenes like"the flight to the Burrow" that were also somewhat linear. I could really see how the music enhanced the sense of drama in the game. The contra-bass trombone was especially cool!
Watt: The part on the quote that might be mis-attributed seemed relevant because I know that many quotes online are wrongly attributed. Also, many photos are posted online with incorrect historical information/ misleading information. The point about the scholar using old texts that were digitized was also interesting: I have found the same experience with finding digital materials to be easier to use. Watt makes an interesting point that students seeing their professors in the library and vice versa allows us to draw parallels between the tasks of research and studying.
The video on Harry Potter was relevant to me because my boyfriend is a sound engineer and does a lot of composing for video, mostly advertisements and documentaries. I thought it was interesting how the composers had to create music that worked for different types of scenes in the game: combat (interactive), cut scenes (linear) and then some other scenes like"the flight to the Burrow" that were also somewhat linear. I could really see how the music enhanced the sense of drama in the game. The contra-bass trombone was especially cool!
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