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Haydn 106 Assignment

Sight-singing "Haydn 106" from Classical Canons in canons! This piece is gorgeous but was tough because of how tight those harmonies are...

Moveable Do Assignment 2

Follow up assignment to the concept of "Moveable Do". I used the pattern "Do Ro Mi Fa Mi Re Do" and then sang them in different modes....

Moveable Do Assignment

This assignment helped train my hearing between whole-tones and semi-tones. The first pitch was always "D" and the "do" kept on changing....

Beatles Cover

For this assignment, I chose "Love Me Do" by the Beatles. Originally, I was trying to do "Blackbird" but it was challenging to depict the...

Sight singing Assignment

For this week's lesson, we were given the opportunity to practice our sight-singing. Believe me, I was scared because I had lots of...

Tuning Fork Assignment

I found this assignment to be challenging because I have bad tendencies to jump too high between half steps and full steps. For example,...

Kodaly - Chord Progressions Canon

For this week's homework, we were given the task of choosing 4 chord progressions and singing it in a 3-part canon along with a bass...

Caldara #33 Canon

Recording myself to do a 3 -part canon alone was quite the challenge. I learned the hard way that tuning can be quite difficult and...

Two-Part Rhythms Part 2

Here is a continuation of my practice with two-part rhythms but now I added singing one of the lines using solfege. In the first part I...

Two-Part Rhythms Part 1

Here you can find me practicing two-part rhythms by trying to keep a steady pulse and playing one rhythm in each hand. It felt difficult...

Scales in Solfege with skips (Part 2)

Furthermore, in these reflections I realize that I am too concerned with keeping up with the tempo that I start to lack musicality with...

Scales in Solfege with skips up and down (Part 1)

In these 2 videos, you will see me singing a C major scale in solfege at quarter notes = 120bpm. This was helpful to practice so that I...

Workshop Reflection

Lee Higgins workshop was very fun and insightful at the same time. I feel like after this workshop it helped me grow as a musician and be...

Article #4: Tobias Reading/Response

Tobias, E. S. (2013). Toward Convergence Adapting Music Education to Contemporary Society and Participatory Culture. Music Educators...

Teacher Interview

Connecting with my high school teacher again was a pleasure and I learned so much more from this interview and got to look at things in a...

Student Interviews

Interviewing some of my floor-mates about music in their lives was interesting and it definitely opened up my eyes to some situations...

Article #3: Burwell Reading/Response

Burwell, K., Carey, G., & Bennett, D. (2017). Isolation in studio music teaching: The secret garden. Arts and Humanities in Higher...

Article #2: Veblen Reading/Response

Veblen, K.K. (2018). Adult music learning in formal, nonformal, and informal contexts. In G. McPherson & G. Welsh (Eds.). Special Needs,...

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