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Author: Cinnamon Roberts
Date: 2001-08-27 00:40
Greetings,
My daughter is a 15 yr old clarinetist and is planning to continue her music studies in college. Unfortunately, I am really ignorant as to what music she should be practicing and so forth. If anyone has any suggestions I would greatly appreciate it.
Also, if anyone has studied and knows of colleges offering teacher certification in conjunction with music education, I would love to hear from you.
Cinnamon
president@arizonacommunity.com
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Author: Bob Curtis
Date: 2001-08-27 03:03
Cinnamon:
Your daughter has high ambitions, indeed. If she is not studying privately with a GOOD teacher I suggest that she do so. This will help so very much in getting her off on the right foot with the proper technique and guidance which so many young students are missing today. As to certification for teaching almost any good teacher's college will offer a series of courses designed for music education majors (either voice or instrumental) which will usually enable a graduate to both perform and teach. I do recommend this course of action. Have your school couneslor provide you with a list of scholls in your area (and other areas) who offer courses of this nature that are geared to instrumental music studenst; i.e., your daughter's situation. Check around some of the other high school besides yours to see sho they might recommend. A lot of this depends upon where you live and where she wants to go to school. If you lived in Texas I would recommend North Texas University in Denton, Sam Houston State in Huntsville, University of Houston in Houston and the University of Texas at Austin in Austin among several. There are many others, but these come to mind particularly.
Good Luck
Bob Curtis
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Author: Jim
Date: 2001-08-27 04:15
The good private teacher is a definite must. This person will be able to help her prepare the music she will need for college auditions and beyond. This is not too soon esp if she is a soph. If she is a Jr, time is getting critical.
Entry into college as a music major is a 2 part process, she must be accepted to the college as well as into the program. Acceptance as an undeclaired major usually isn't an option here as she will need 8 semesters of applied music (private lessons with a prof.) to graduate.
She should "max out" the musical offerings at her high school as a way of gaining experience at performing. If at all possible, she should join the school choir (and/ or a church choir) which will aid ear training in a way that instrumental music won't. If at all possible, she should take theory in high school. Piano lessons are also a great help if possible.
My best to her as she gets ready!
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Author: Micaela
Date: 2001-08-27 18:03
In my experience, high school guidance counselors know virtually nothing about music colleges. (Maybe you know an exception.) When you ask about music school, they often look confused and say "Uh, Julliard?" Music teachers are a much better resource- she should talk to the band director, orchestra director, and chorus director at her school or anyone else who went to music school. If she has a private teacher, ask him or her (and if she doesn't, find one soon). Many colleges offer degrees in music education, I don't know where you are but in New York Ithaca College and SUNY Potsdam are the biggest schools for music ed. I visited Oberlin last week (I'm a junior in high school) and they also have a music ed program.
As for music to work on, make sure she's practicing major and minor scales and arpeggios in multiple octaves- especially the hard ones (I was asked B flat melodic minor in an audition once). They're on virtually every audition. The Baermann method Division Three has tons of this kind of thing.
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Author: Robert Gifford
Date: 2001-09-07 23:22
University of North Texas in Denton was rated one of the top music colleges in the US, and I think #1 for Jazz (Correct me if I'm wrong).
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