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Sam, I completely agree with your post. This is a topic that I had not thought about until this class and learning about syntax. I think this is something that we are taught from the beginning of learning how to read music because it is so vital to music.
I have heard the strategy of some composers composing without barlines. This sounds like a very unusual to me, but I think it would also be interesting to try and play music that does not have barlines.

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Sam, I think you bring up a very interesting point in music. I think one can definitely be illiterate in a traditional musical notation sense, but many people learn instruments such as guitar and never learn to read music. I think if they are still performing with passion then this counts as an accurate musical portrayal and therefore they are correctly interpreting the music.

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Response to Reflective Post #1 (Brody Felix)

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Response to Reflective Post #1 (Brody Felix)

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I read this book earlier this semester and I think you'll find it interesting. While it details how to incorporate literacy development, it also reaffirms why literacy is important in the music classroom.

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I find it very important to appreciate the simple things in life and the complexity involved in these "simple" tasks. To you, I can assume reading music has become a second nature. I have taken piano and violin lessons in the past, am out of practice now and if I tried to read music....it would not go very well. I think that it's important to understand that students begin with a clean slate and understanding how complex it becomes through the compilation of each and every component that goes into reading music. I think a lot of times people jump to conclusions that art and music are blow off classes. They really aren't and with that being said, I really respect music as a discipline.

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Anna Zaino
I don't remember using anything technology wise within my music classroom. Now it seems that is all everyone uses. The computer for a metronome, tuner, and recording device all at the same time! Back in my day, we had to write music by hand and now we have Sibelius and Musescore to help with that. Everything is always changing and while I cannot keep up with it I have to accept the fact that it's happening. I plan to really learn all my resources and hopefully that will help my students in my future classroom.

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Anna Zaino
I completely agree with this post. You should not count someone who is unable to read a piece of music as musically illiterate. Not all literacy devices are the same and some students, even teachers, need to realize that. Not every student learns the same and as a future educator, we need to realize that in order to move forward.

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Again, I completely agree with your thoughts and personal experience with incorporating technologies into the classroom from a music content background. I do not view may other contents as incorporating the use of technology. However, the more and more the educational field is changing and we are being exposed to new efficient and effective teaching methods requires us to keep up to date on how we teach and what we decide to include in order for our students to benefit from. For Physical Education, the use of pedometers and heart rate monitors are becoming vital technological instruments in terms of assessment. Google Doc, One Note, and email methods are other forms of  technology that are becoming more necessary to enhance class collaboration and maintain interactions outside of class. Not only does technology assist in the learning styles of all students, but it will also allow them to excel in their abilities to keep up with new trends inside and outside of the classroom environment
-Chelsea Gross

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Though in the beginning I of the class, where I had little exposure to the complexity of being "literate," I would have not have considered your example of playing an instrument to be a form of "literacy." However, now I have I have learned how vital it is to understand the
there are multiple ways to be literate. Playing an instrument requires interpreting information in order to perform the desired outcome, just as the effects of reading and writing provide. This example is similar to how I view literacy in my content area of Physical Education. Although, there is not necessarily the typical reading and writing demands, there are many other forms of "texts" students need to be able to make sense of in order to succeed, therefore, enforcing the term "being literate, or "literacy within the classroom."
-Chelsea Gross

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Jackie Dellamano - Response to Post 1:  Music is literacy in action.  Prior to this class, many of us thought of "literacy" as a reading/writing experience.  However, throughout the semester, we are learning that so many other mediums are in fact forms of literacy.  Music, as you stated in this post, is most certainly an area strong in literacy.  Music is heard, read, sung, performed, written, and so forth.

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Jackie Dellamano - Response to Post 1:  Music is literacy in action.  Prior to this class, many of us thought of "literacy" as a reading/writing experience.  However, throughout the semester, we are learning that so many other mediums are in fact forms of literacy.  Music, as you stated in this post, is most certainly an area strong in literacy.  Music is heard, read, sung, performed, written, and so forth.

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I cant teach literacy through performance (Comphrensive Musicianship).

Comprehensive Musicianship (CMP) is talked about often in our field nowadays, but not often detailed well because it is so new. CMP focuses on teaching more than just playing notes and rhythms, it teaches about the background, content, why things are the way they are, and why/how they are interpreted. In reality, CMP is really just teaching music students to be literate in music. It is a deeper understanding. CMP and literacy gives as authentic, relative purpose to music and does beyond surface learning.

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How does syntax relate to music?

Syntax is a vital component of literacy in music. In fact, without syntax, music simply cannot be done. Syntax dictates how the music is organized. A staff, time signature, key signature, and notes (or lack thereof any of these) determines how the music will sound. It is a vital part in being able to perform music because that is how we read it. Literacy includes being able to interpret all of these symbols while reading left to right and then top to bottom. If a student is not taught this, they will be more confused than anything and would not be able to perform the piece.

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Does technology have a place in the music classroom to teach literacy?

Music classrooms in the past are notorious for not using a lot of technology in the classroom other than instruments and sheet music. However, the field is changing and there is a lot of new technology that supports literacy in the classroom. For example, there are websites that teach theory lessons. There are Google sites that allow students and teacher to interact through playing exam recordings and interactive rubrics. The wide variety of apps, websites, and technology are pushing students to raise the bar to be more literate in the music classroom than previously.

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Can students perform music without being literate?

Many musicians learn to play an instrument without ever looking at a piece of music. Does this mean that they are musically illiterate? While it may seem like the answer to this would be yes, you must take into account that the instrument itself is a text. There are sets of keys that must be interpreted and learned. Each key has a note name and pitch that is is associated with. This is literacy in a more abstract form than even sheet music. To be fully literate in the field, however, I believe it that it is important to teach students how to read music--even if they learn to play the instrument without it first.

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Is literacy even relevant to my content area?

Many people may believe that literacy is strictly about reading and writing words and sentences. However, in music, literacy is vital to the success of the students. Our "words" and "sentences" are notes, rhythms, phrases, symbols. Our syntax is the staff that is laced with key signatures and time signatures. While it is more abstract, if it is not taught, a student cannot interpret it well enough to perform. Literacy is sequenced because the symbols and complexity of it gets more in-depth and difficult. Without literacy, there is no music. It is a language within itself.