Composing with Technology Across the Curriculum

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Composing with Technology Across the Curriculum

• Presented by Dr. James Frankel
• FMEA 2008 Conference
• Tampa, FL
• January 11, 2008

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All of my session materials are posted on my
website

• www.jamesfrankel.com

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Session Overview

• Why Composition?
• Rationale
• CompositionHow???
• Software, hardware, and the Internet
• Composing Across the Curriculum
• Elementary School
• Middle School
• High School
• Resources

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Why Composition?
Why Technology?
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MENC National Standard 4

• Composing and arranging music within specified
  guidelines.

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CompositionHow???

• Hardware needs
• Minimal vs. Optimal
• Software needs
• Composing Online

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Hardware Needs

• The School Computer Lab
• The One-Computer Classroom
• With a MIDI Keyboard
• Without a MIDI Keyboard
• The Music Technology Lab

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Software Needs

• Notation Software Sibelius or Finale
• GarageBand 3.0
• Sibelius Compass
• Sibelius Groovy
• Making Music
• Band-In-A-Box

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Composing Online

• Vermont MIDI Project www.vtmidi.org
• NY Philharmonic Kids Zone www.nyphilkids.org
• BBC Making Tracks www.bbc.co.uk
• Creating Music www.creatingmusic.com

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Composing Across the Music Curriculum
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Guidelines for Composition

• Provide Parameters
• The more structure the better
• Start Small
• Non-pitched instruments
• Compose short phrases
• No Wrong Answers
• Remember John Cage!
• Find A Way to Showcase the Work
• The Electronic Refrigerator
• Podcasting
• Sometimes You Should Leave Technology Behind

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Elementary School

• Sakura
• Music in Numbers
• July 4, 1776
• Create a Melody
• Soundscapes

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Middle School

• Composing in Pentatonic
• Creating Two-Part Inventions
• Invention No. 1 by JT
• Making Music Out Of Pi
• Pi Kallman
• Creating Serialism Compositions
• Evan
• Young Composers Club
• Composition Competition

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High School

• Writing Four-Part Chorales
• Music Based on Poetry, Art, etc.
• Film Scoring
• Songwriting

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Resources

• Why and How to Teach Music Composition
  edited by Maud Hickey
• Teaching Music with Technology
• by Thomas Rudolph
• Composing and Arranging Standard 4 Benchmarks by
  MENC Publications

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Resources
Teaching Classroom Music in the Keyboard Lab By
James Frankel available at www.soundtree.com
Composition in the Classroom By Jackie Wiggins

• www.ti-me.org
• www.jamesfrankel.com

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