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Ahem:
My daughter got the flying spiccato right away like a natural when she first tried it as a tenth grader with Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra. I'll never forget watching the rehearsal, and hearing the conductor congratulate her on her technique. It's just some coordination that she happened to have, but, still, I felt awfully happy for her.
I can't remember the work... Might have been Wagner. I'll ask her when she gets home for T'giving break tonight.
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An interval of two octaves, or a fifteenth; — called also bisdiapason.
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That's a new one for me! I think I'll drop it on our music itinerant tomorrow to see whether she's ever heard of it.
Wonder whether Musick's heard of this one?
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I have heard of diapason, especially as it relates to organ pipes, but never bisdiapason.
our music itinerant
that is so sad... every school(and all children) deserve a full time music teacher with their own room. one of the true disgraces of American public school funding.
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Oh, I didn't explain the itinerant part well.
You see, our school is the largest in Chesterfield County. I am the resident music teacher, but I can only give a weekly music lesson to about 700 of our 1,100 students. We have a music itinerant with whom I work, and she picks up the classes for the other 400 students.
Chesterfield guarantees that elementary school-aged children will have a formal music lesson once a week.
You must realize that this is not enough. To have a well-grounded Kodaly program, for instance, the children would need music at last twice a week.
But I'm happy to meet with them weekly and try to make best use of the time by dividing the lesson this way:
Orchestral listening...8 to 10 minutes
Applied music theory through singing...15 minutes
Dance related to musical concepts...about 15 minutes
Reading exercises...5 to 10 minutes
(In 4th and 5th grades, we study recorder for approximately half the year instead of singing.)
I'd say our music offerings (elementary level) are probably about average for the nation. Since I do not have the luxury of reinforced lessons that classroom teachers have in that my lessons are a week apart, I salivate over the thought that somewhere in the US I could have met the same group of students twice a week.
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you sound like a wonderful teacher. your students are lucky to have you!
it is a real shame that there is not enough staff to meet the students twice a week; music and the skills learned(not all musical!) are so critical to the child and the world.
someday we'll learn...
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The marvel is that the whole curriculum has been increased so much. I personally
hope the time lost to study of geography has been made up by an increase in
quantity and quality of teaching I got in music.
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This is just my opinion, but:
I think geography needs to be taught rigorously in at least 4th - 6th grades as a separate subject. The way things go here, geography is included in social studies, which is fine and good. The kids get to study the interplay between geographical points of fact and the movement of cultures. Lots of connections.
But I also think geography needs to be taught as a separate discipline, in-depth according to grade level, at least by 4th grade. When I was in elementary school--about 1955 through 1961 (1st - 6th grade)--we did study geography as a separate discipline in the upper elementary grade levels. It was one of my favorite subjects. And we also studied geography as part of social studies, but that experience simply wasn't as in-depth. By having a separate geography book, studying specific geographical areas, learning about political divisions of those areas as well as natural divisions (topography), natural products, climate, names of rivers and lakes and other bodies of water, an so on, I think we came to a better, elementary understanding of what geography encompasses. And it's another subject offering that will allow more children to do well. I always enjoyed studying geography more than history. Still do. I don't mind reading about history through geography, but most history books have put me to sleep in short order.
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Ikebana, the ancient art of Japanese flower arrangement, addresses a special relationship with
nature. It is an art that depends on the most exacting visual and spiritual discipline. It is an art
learned through years of study. Through ikebana we perceive and examine our relationship to
nature and art. Ikebana is both boundary and bridge.
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Maybe a bit late for this, Dr. Bill, but I can translate the Italian bit:
a "folletto": a typical "folletto" is extravagant and thoughtless, often plays jokes or makes incomprehensible motions and is completely detached from material worries.
I think it sounds like a psychological term.
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