SubCategory Archive (tags): ‘Music education’

Things you can do with a Music Education Degree

PUBLISHED: February 6, 2010, John Ericson

One of the things I get to do every year as a full time college professor is produce an “Annual Review,” and one of the categories in the review is “Current Student and Alumni Achievements.” Thinking about those recently I realized that three of my former students from when I taught at the Crane School [...]

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Teaching

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Music education, Music therapy

Arizona Doing Its Best to Discourage Teachers

PUBLISHED: November 27, 2009, Bruce Hembd

Of late I am very disturbed by recent trends in my home state of Arizona. At one time the education motto from our nation’s capitol in Washington was “no child left behind.” These days in Arizona it takes on a special irony; while a child’s education is proposed to be of strong public interest, the [...]

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Teaching

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Arizona, Music education, Off topic, Phoenix, Stories

A Couple Classes I Wish I had Taken as an Undergrad

PUBLISHED: November 14, 2009, John Ericson

There are a couple courses I wish I had taken as an undergraduate–courses normally taken by music education students. While my undergrad degree is in performance, I actually started out doing a music business degree program with the goal of becoming an instrument repairman. Part of the required coursework was the full methods sequence, as [...]

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Horn study

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Instrument Repair, Music education, Music therapy

Dreams and Goals; Music Performance and Music Education

PUBLISHED: November 11, 2009, Bruce Hembd

Note: this article is a follow-up to “The Community College Alternative” which stimulated quite a few comments. My own follow-up comment became a bit long, so here it is as an informal post. A degree in music education isn’t always about teaching children – just as a performance degree may not always be ultimately about [...]

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Creativity, Music education

Consider Studying Music Education or Music Therapy

PUBLISHED: October 11, 2009, John Ericson

Looking for a music degree with near 100% job placement? For those out there that are considering schools or advising students, music education and music therapy are great options. For instrumental music education I feel that horn players have a great advantage in particular, as the simple fact is you actually understand the horn, an [...]

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Arizona State University, Music education, Music therapy