Brookdale Community College

BROOKDALE COMMUNITY COLLEGE PERSONAL PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES

Keith Heimann Music Faculty Member Department

OBJECTIVES COMMENTS Objective # Complete. “Everything Holidays” Write the script, rewrite lyrics, choose material, hire a choreographer, audition, design the production, cast, play rehearsals, musical preparation and rehearse.

Objective # On-going. This is proving to be very Sight-Transposing skills. difficult, but I am making progress. Joe is Work with Joe Accurso on developing my ability to helping me with this goal. UPDATE: I transpose students’ music at sight. have the ability to sight transpose.into and out of CM, FM and GM. Objective # On-going. I have learned “Moveable DO,” Learn “Moveable DO” system. but it is not yet an automatic language for Develop the skills necessary to instruct students me. I am continuing to work on this skill. on the “Moveable DO” system, as opposed to the UPDATE I am now able to sight-read new “Fixed Do” system. music in “Moveable DO,” but it still requires a great deal of concentration. Objective # Complete. Students have commented Redo my home page. favorably on the look and content of my Chris Johnson and Caryl Bender worked very hard home page. to make my home page presentable. Objective # Complete. I am now very comfortable with Learn how to edit my home page. major edits to my home page. UPDATE I Chris Johnson and Caryl Bender are teaching me have learned Dreamweaver and am able to how to edit my home page myself. do most edits myself.

Objective # Complete. I have found a new text and will Ear Training Text Book. begin using it next semester. Search for a better book. The current text has a very small font and is organized in a confusing manner.

Objective # Complete. I have found a workbook that Music Appreciation Text Book. will be bundled with the current text. The Search for a CD-ROM and/or workbook to entire music department will begin using it accompany the current text. next semester. Objective # Near completion. I have amassed Make more standard repertory assignments, approximately 30 titles of standard and transpose into Coda Finale. repertory and have begun to assign a Students are still reluctant to work on music that is minimum of one per student. I am still not currently popular. I will begin to assign more entering these pieces into Coda Finale. standard repertory as part of each voice class and The most current upgrade to that software give the students their assignments transposed would be very helpful. into the appropriate key.

Faculty Member Evaluator May 1, 2005 Date Date