Music education

Edwin Gordon is one of the several influential educators in the music education field. Gordon is well known as a researcher, educator, and creator of the music learning theory. He has also made important contributions to the field of music education by creating music aptitude testing that can be used in the classroom for all ages. Gordon began is education career as a string bass performance major at Eastman School of Music where he received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees. After graduating…

Music has always been a part of my life. The extensive record collection between my father and grandfather. The music teacher grandmother. The composer cousin who lived in L.A., New Orleans, and Nashville who married an operatic vocalist and toured the country with his jazz group who now directs a middle school band. Then, there is the other cousin who was in high school acapella choir and a guitarist and a bassist and a drummer and a bagpipe player. I went to church children’s choir practice…

in a situation where you always wonder what it would be like if you’ve made another decision in life? I was. Born and raised in China, I have been always influenced by the traditional value—do what most people do, listen to your parents. Pursuing music has always been my dream that I was too scared to reach to. Most people around me always define success in a monetary way. I was never brave enough to challenge the traditional way of thinking until I recently moved to the United State and…

Every culture has music they use for religious or expressive purposes. Music have had a major impact on many cultures around the world from Egypt to the Native Americans. From the Teenage culture who use music mostly for expressive purposes. To the Native Americans who used it in a religious way. All the way to the ancient Egyptians who created Gods with the power of music. In this essay we will look at not just ancient people but also the teengers of today. In this paragraph we will learn…

Music is considered an universal language, able to be a double-edged sword when it comes to mental wellness from children to elderly alike. Children are exposed to much music, averaging 21 hours a week. As a result, music has a profound impact on childrens’s mental wellness, yet the worrying trend is that they might not be equipped to deal with its influence, with severe consequences in later life (e.g. suicide). Fig. 1 Primary school students playing musical instrments in a performing arts…

Since 1924 and 1937, music educators and advocates have diligently planned, designed, and implemented music education in schools and communities for all ages. PMs who chose healthy lifestyles through the life course enjoy community music ensembles to maintain physical skills (Saarikallio & Erkkila, 2007), fine motor skills (Bruhn & Schroter, 2009), and increased brain grey matter…

purpose of your first draft. In your proposal, you mentioned that you wanted to explore "how music and language coincide with one another [and] how music was and is used as a tool to communicate social issues and social changes." You also wanted to “show how music has been used as a form of language in worship, was, education medical etc.” In your first draft, you explained the purpose of African American music and described how and why this purpose changed throughout the centuries. Your first…

Extracurricular Activities: • Westwood Marching Band – For the past four years, I’ve dedicated every August to participate in this “creative story of music and movement”, to make something quite special in today’s world. Spanning 15 weeks every year, this activity pulls avid music makers together to give life to a visual aspect of music that is often untold in traditional concert bands. Over five hundred and ten hours a year, our body of three hundred members bond, find purpose together, and…

from before I was born, music was an enormous part of my life. Both of my parents graduated from Baldwin-Wallace’s Conservatory in the 1980s: my mom with degrees in both music education and horn performance, and my dad with a degree in music education. My mom is now a music teacher in a small, rural school district in New York, and my dad is the senior high band director and music department chair in another district. Additionally, my grandfather started the local music store that has now been…

The Musical catalyst Music has many influences on the human mind and body. Music can lower or raise your blood pressure and heart rate. Music can put thoughts and images in your mind and induce feelings and emotion. Your mood can also be altered according to the music you listen to. Although not all music has an effect on you most harmonics can . I think with the right parameters of songs, music could aid learning in numerable ways. First, there are many ways in which music can affect our…