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!