Thursday, July 21, 2016

Week 3 Blog/Reflection


The chapter two reading material for this week presents us with informational material regarding digital audio, digital audio software, and digital audio hardware.  Bauer discusses the meaning of frequency and amplitude.  Frequency is the rate at which a wave moves that creates a specific pitch and these are measured with Hertz.  Each hertz equals one cycle of sound.  Amplitude is measured by decibels and refers to volume of the sound.  Next there are two types of recording, they are analog and digital.  Digital recording is the process of converting sound whereas analog recordings are a straight depiction of sounds. I found it interesting that with the use of codecs music can be compressed making it easier to send, save, and convert.  I had never heard of lossless or lossy compression.  It is fascinating that with lossy information that is not needed is discarded.  This is a permanent action with lossy compression.  With lossless, all information and sounds are able to be recovered after compression. As far as software programs such as GarageBand and Soundation, I do think that students would enjoy using the programs.  However, I would not use these programs without students practicing and creating true compositions.  These other programs already have music samples created and the individual puts these together.  In my opinion, true composition comes from creating all of the music yourself (Bauer, 2014).
            Chapter three gives us several ideals and beliefs in how music composition is important and how we can implement these into our classrooms.  I like the idea of “the compliment sandwich”.  One of my former professors always told us that for every negative critique we give a student they need at least three or four positive ones to keep their self-esteem levels high.   This is a good rule to live by in the classroom.  The reality is that music is a creative art in which we are always be judged and critiqued.  Our students, as young musicians, are constantly putting ourselves out there every time they play.  It is our job to give them constructive criticism, but also to build them up (Bauer, 2014).

            Finally, this week’s lecture that included a video about the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus was amazing to watch.  I did not know that this even existed.  This is a very cool idea.  I went after the video and explored the website and I have attached that link below.  On the website you can see the layout of the tour bus and where everything goes.   The website also has a live stream, a schedule of their stops, and music recordings as well.  





 Art for publication may be downloaded at www.uco.edu/photo/LennonBus.

References:
Bauer, W. I. (2014). Music learning today: Digital pedagogy for creating, performing, and
responding to music.

Bazan, D. (2016, July 17). Technology Assisted Music Teaching & Professional Development.
Lecture.




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