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Date Posted: 10:36:45 04/09/05 Sat
Author: Lindsay
Subject: Re: Quality Music
In reply to: Frank 's message, "Quality Music" on 05:59:49 04/09/05 Sat

This is what I was trying to get people to discuss on the pop music thread. :)

Anyway, I think that quality music is determined by what you can get out of it. If music means something to you, or you can learn something from it, I think it's quality music. Quality music does not necessarily mean it's likeable music. In fact, there's a lot of music out there that I really don't like at all, but I still think it can be quality. (Ahem, New Music Festival....) But this is a very subjective, and is going to be different for every person. How much do you have to be able to get out of music for it to be quality? What kinds of things can you get out of music at all, and do they make quality music, or does it just make you like it and not necessarily make it quality?

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[> Re: Quality Music -- Heather Gosche, 18:59:48 04/10/05 Sun [1]

What a great discussion!

We are teachers and teaching is our number one priority for our students. We must be sure that when we have students sing or play music, that we are using it as a learning tool rather than a performance piece. Quality music is most definately determined by what can be taught through the study of the piece!


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[> [> Re: Quality Music -- Frank, 08:50:25 04/12/05 Tue [1]

And how do we, as music educators, determine what can be taught through the study of a piece?


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[> [> [> Just to put it on top. -- Frank, 15:32:49 04/15/05 Fri [1]

OK I get it. You don't want to talk about what makes quality music.


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[> [> [> [> Re: Just to put it on top. -- Cheryl Bolton, 07:01:57 02/09/06 Thu [1]

Quality music is music that evokes an emotional response in you. This response can be good or not. Though most of us would rather that the response be good. It is the music that can take your mind out of your body and send it to where ever the composer wants to send it. It is the music you listen to over and over and over and over and over again, just to get that feeling.
When we study the music, this is the aspect of the music that we want to discuss with our classmates and instructors. We want to discover how the composer did whatever he did that "sends us", so we can learn to do it too.
This is why my favorite class is theory. I listen to a piece.
I want to know:
How the composer did it.
What he did to make it change/move/work.
Why does it work "this way" and not "that way"?
All the ins and outs of the creating process that makes a work of art that can "send" the listener.

When we teach, the appreciation and understanding of this aspect of music is what we want to instill in our students.




Oh my, is that high-brow or what???


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