Alternate Assignments

Alternate Assignment #1
What do you feel is the value of a quality music education? Please write one paragraph on each of the following topics.
How music education enhances the learning of other subjects.
How music education develops character skills such as collaboration, discipline, and citizenship.
How music education develops leadership characteristics.
Your opinion on budget cuts to music programs across the country and its impact on the students.
Compare and contrast the value of a choral education and an instrumental education.
How the music department impacts the morale of the student body.
The ways the music department serves the community
Class Teacher

Alternate Assignment #2
You are creating an “Instruction Manual”. Pick three concepts from the following list of ideas we cover in class. You need to explain good and bad examples of each concept, and identify places within the concert music where it would be particularly important. Teach me the concept as if I’ve never heard of it before. Each concept must have at least one paragraph consisting of more than five sentences.
Tone quality/Timbre
Articulation
Posture
Balance
Blend
Dynamics
Tempo
Breath Support
Diction/Enunciation
Vowel Formation
Style
Diphthong/Triphthong
Class Teacher
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Alternate Assignment #1