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MUSE 375
Dr. Palmer
16 February 2017
creativity. The authors pose that, on a wider scale, creativity is the use of the
practices to incorporate more divergent thinking into the classroom and shift
wind band or orchestra music. Creative music-making can also help students
explore style, and it forces them to think critically in order to develop their
can be a great way to give students their own, unique voice, but educators
students. They should have a clear goal in mind with any composition
activity and sequence the activity so that students are successful. Directors,
however, must also become more comfortable with the idea of giving up
some of the control of the ensemble so that the students have freedom and
generate new ideas and then choose some of those ideas to develop more
already is familiar with the sounds and purposes of these instruments. Along
with timbre, students must explore other musical principles such as silence
and sound, motion and stasis, and unity and variety. Finally, through listening
and analyzing pre-existing works, students can refine their own artistic
Improvisation is the focus of the next portion of the article. Here, the
classroom. They explain that improvisation can have different roles such as
part of a bigger curriculum. Many games can be used to include this type of
individuality through musical decisions. They must follow the notes and
markings on the page, but have the ability to decide how to do that.
should be careful not to impose a one size fits all model on the way
through jazz band and music theory classes, but if I have a smaller program,
own personal voice and style. IN order to create the highest form of