Sound to Sight: Articulation Notation

Publication Date

2025

Presentation Length

Poster/Gallery presentation

College

College of Music & Performing Arts

Department

Music, School of

Student Level

Undergraduate

SPARK Category

Knowledge

Faculty Advisor

Julia Heath Reynolds

SPARK Session

Poster

Presentation Type

Poster

Summary

In pursuit of my teaching licensure in Music Education, I began student teaching in January of 2025. Throughout my time teaching band in a local high school, I was tasked with planning, teaching, and critically analyzing a series of connected lessons. These lessons, taking place over 3 days, were focused on teaching my students how to identify articulation symbols in music. To meet this goal, I structured my lessons in a way that would allow me to identify their current level of understanding on this topic. I used a pre-lesson assessment and a post-lesson assessment to summarize their learning and improvement. I used this opportunity to also share with my students some fun music from around the world, giving them greater context for their current performance music, Blue Ridge Reel by Brian Balmages. I found that while many of my students had a strong foundation and understanding of the topic before the lessons, there was a massive improvement in students' scores on the post-lesson assessment compared to the identical pre-lesson assessment. Through this metric, I found that my lessons were effective for nearly all of my students.

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