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World of Music / Cultural Diversity in Music Education ISME CMA seminar: Community Music in the Modern Metropolis Most music education in the world has been organised around the great tradition of Western classical music. This has led to an infrastructure that extends not only from Vienna to Los Angeles, but also from Cape Coast to Kuala Lumpur. Unfortunately, this solid structure has its limitations in terms of flexibility. As a consequence, many large institutions for music education at all levels have difficulty in responding to new social and artistic realities, especially in the multi-ethnic, multi-musical cities at the beginning of the third millennium. By its very nature and practice, community music can play a major role in leading the way to new approaches to music education across the board. This was the central thought behind the Community Music Activities (CMA) seminar in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 5-10 August 2002. The target gorup consisted of international professionals from various areas of music education. All participants were actively involved in the seminar, where everyone brought in their own experiences in formal and informal ways. The seminar had the following subthemes: ● Key issues and definitions of community music, defining the parameters ● Community music in practice and institutions for music education ● Community music, cultural diversity and identity ● Community music and policies of funding ● Community music and new teaching methods The seminar was organised by Rotterdam Conservatoire. As an institution for higher music education, the Conservatoire has experience with all sorts of music: classical, jazz, pop, and world music. Since twelve years there is a separate department for world music with programmes for tango, flamenco, latin, Turkish and Indian music. The conservatoire is currently involved in the development of a music programme in secondary professional education, with a focus on community music. The seminar programme as well as papers and presentations are published on this site. A full report is expected soon. ISME Homepage: www.isme.org Conference programme The full programme of ISME CMA seminar 2002 is published on this page. http://www.cdime-network.com/cma/conference (1 of 2) [03/08/2010 11:05:32] World of Music / Cultural Diversity in Music Education Papers and presentations ISME CMA 2002 All papers and presentations of the ISME Community Music Activities seminar are published on this page. Contact list ISME CMA 2002 Participants and their e-mail addresses: http://www.cdime-network.com/cma/conference (2 of 2) [03/08/2010 11:05:32] World of Music / Cultural Diversity in Music Education Papers and presentations ISME CMA 2002 All papers and presentations of the ISME Community Music Activities seminar are published on this page. By author / presenter, in alphabetical order: Akosua Addo - "University-Community music partnerships": http://www.worldmusiccentre.com/uploads/cma/addo.PDF Margarete Arroyo - "Community music inside a school context, questions and challenges for the music education": http:// www.worldmusiccentre.com/uploads/cma/arroyo.PDF Cindy Bell - "Queens College choral society, a working partnership between community chorus and college": http://www. worldmusiccentre.com/uploads/cma/bell.PDF Don Coffman & Monte Mumford - "Community and school music wind bands, making and maintaining effective, complementary, rewarding relationships": http://www.worldmusiccentre.com/uploads/cma/coffman.PDF Lioubov Dodonova - "Features of conductors' work with amateur music groups in countries without traditional music": http:// www.worldmusiccentre.com/uploads/cma/dodonova.PDF Steve Garrett - "Creating a new meaning for 'music' in the schools of Wales": http://www.worldmusiccentre.com/uploads/ cma/garrett.PDF Sean Gregory - "Collaborative approaches, putting colour in a grey area": http://www.worldmusiccentre.com/uploads/cma/ gregory.PDF Lee Higgins - "Towards community music conceptualisations": http://www.worldmusiccentre.com/uploads/cma/higgins.PDF Phil Mullen - "Music from the 4 corners, experiences of running a multicultural community music ensemble": http://www. worldmusiccentre.com/uploads/cma/mullen4corners.PDF Phil Mullen - "We don't teach we explore, aspects of community music delivery": http://www.worldmusiccentre.com/uploads/ cma/mullenteachexplore.PDF Vania Muller & Dra Jusamara Souza - "The relationship between music and street children and adolescents": http://www. worldmusiccentre.com/uploads/cma/muller.PDF Nur Intan Murtadza - "Gamelan, a community music activity that became part of the world music curriculum for Toronto's schools": http://www.worldmusiccentre.com/uploads/cma/murtadza.PDF Betsy Oehrle - "Ukusa's future, funding relative to the historically disadvantaged": http://www.worldmusiccentre.com/ uploads/cma/oehrle.PDF Helen Phelan - "Anail De, the breath of God, a sacred music festival and cultural diversity in Ireland": http://www. worldmusiccentre.com/uploads/cma/phelan.PDF David Price - "A quiet revolution, an overview of current community music initiatives in the UK": http://www. worldmusiccentre.com/uploads/cma/price.PDF Kari Veblen - "Apples and oranges, solar systems and galaxies, comparing systems of community music": http://www. worldmusiccentre.com/uploads/cma/veblen.PDF Katherine Zeserson - "A passionate exchange, participation, power, progress and great music": http://www. worldmusiccentre.com/uploads/cma/zeserson.PDF http://www.cdime-network.com/cma/conference/021230175048483221 [03/08/2010 11:06:29] UNIVERSITY – COMMUNITY MUSIC PARTNERSHIPS Akosua Addo UNIVERSITY - COMMUNITY MUSIC PARTNERSHIPS (Summary) Partnerships between communities and universities are taking place largely in urban areas. Community partnerships play significant roles in creating diverse contexts for music teaching and learning. The Minnesota Orchestra, a professional orchestra in Minneapolis, Minnesota has long active history of educational and community outreach programs. Using funds from an endowment provided by George and Jevne Pennock, the University of Minnesota (UM) Music Education Division in collaboration with the Minnesota Orchestra established the Pennock Listening Project for local schools in 1996. As part of the program, music education students in the UM Elementary Methods class write curricula and teaching materials for a series of Young People’s Concerts, and gain valuable classroom experience as workshop facilitators. Workshop materials reinforce concepts before the concert. Program organizers and educational professionals realized that a small but growing student population—home schooled children— was not being served by this traditional approach to community outreach programs. Home school concept and changes in public school organization demanded fresh thinking, and that pre-service music education teachers require skills to serve populations beyond the public or private classroom environment. For these reasons, the orchestra’s outreach program established a workshop for both children and parent-teachers in home school education. In this report, I will a) give a brief overview of the Pennock Listening Project, including the establishment of goals and objectives in the context of a university-level music methods course; b) describe program planning and implementation efforts to reach members of the home school community in and around Minneapolis and St. Paul; and c) summarize the educational value of this collaboration and its effects on the lives of individual students, their parents, and the UM/Minnesota Orchestra partner institutions. A review of Pennock Listening Projects progress reports, the current literature on home school music education, responses to a questionnaire survey filled out by the parents of home schooled children, responses to a questionnaire survey filled out by UM music education students, and curriculum materials provided by the Minnesota Orchestra to home school educators provide the information for this final report. Introduction The Minnesota Orchestra, a professional orchestra in Minneapolis, Minnesota has long active history of educational and community outreach programs. Using funds from an endowment provided by George and Jevne Pennock, the University of Minnesota (UM) Music Education Division in collaboration with the Minnesota Orchestra established the Pennock Listening Project for local schools in 1996. As part of the program, music education students in the UM Elementary Methods class write curricula and teaching materials for a series of Young People’s Concerts, and gain valuable classroom experience as workshop facilitators. The Spring 2001 concert program, entitled How the Gimquat Found Her Song, describes the efforts of a bird who finds her own song with the help of a magician. The story, an original production of a troupe known as the Platypus Theater, uses excerpts from Debussy’s Prelude : Afternoon of a Faun, Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro Overture, Ellington’s Don’t Mean a Thing, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.4, Mvt 4, Beethoven’s Symphony No.5, Mvt 1 , Bizet’s Prelude from Carmen, Vivaldi’s Spring from Four Seasons, and Lloyd-Webber’s Phantom from Phantom of the 1 Opera to trace the bird and magician’s journey from a monastery to Leipzig, Vienna, Berlin, and New Orleans. The Fall 2001 concert program, entitled Music, Noise and Silence, was designed for Children in kindergarten to Grade three. The theatre company Magic Circle Mime Company together with the Minnesota Orchestra’s performance of excepts from Suppe: Poet