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04.19.06 Week 13
From Notes to Music
Guests: MSU string quartet, Dr. Nat
Chaikan, Director.
Presentations & Papers
See Handout for Guidelines
Reflections on presentations
Television News - Adela Uchida
Film Critique - East Lansing Film
Festival
The “gifted listener” and the “gifted
learner”
* innocence (being open to new experience), not jaded,
or “knowing too much” and also to be critical (to analyze
one’s own experience as well as the music)
* trained professional and the innocence to the intuitive
amateur
* imagination is essential, and the ability to lend oneself
to the power of the music
* ability to see different shades
Similarities between composer,
conductor, and teacher?
* the teacher is the facilitator, brings out the nuance in
the music, gets the idea from composer to the audience
* teacher as conductor and orchestra?
* teacher as composer: finding some way of
communicating to the audience
* teachers and students can share similar roles
* composing is an act of self-expression, self-discovery
Copland’s sonorous image, teaching
and learning
* the image is a overall feel of an experience; a
classroom can also have an overall feel
* in music, the image emerges from the coming together
of many things - tone, rhythm, orchestration, pitch. In
teaching, the image arises from the layout of the class,
the objects in the room, the curriculum, the sound of the
talk, the rhythm, the cadence, etc.
* teachers, like composers, have an important influence
on the “sonorous” image of their class
* the image is a feel, an aesthetic quality of the
experience of a classroom or a piece of music