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Brody, I am glad that you include the instrument included as a text. I did not think of this as a text until this class. An additional text that we may not realize would be a conductor and the way we have to interpret their pattern.

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I think you raise an excellent questions about literacies within literacies and provide a great example of the music sheet. In my discipline of history, there are texts that contain many forms of literacies such as reading a map (picture at bottom). When reading a map like this, the reader needs to understand what the symbols mean, relative distance of everything, understanding of parallels in the map, names of capital and states, etc...
I think that many texts contain multiple literacies involved in them, but not all these literacies need to be addressed in the classroom.

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An Excellent Resource for Music and Literacy Development-Reflective #4

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An Excellent Resource for Music and Literacy Development-Reflective #4

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I found this book, co-authored by my high school band director, and it covers how music educators can better incorporate literacy development in their classrooms.

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Brody, I would agree that texts in music are beyond strictly sheet music and textbooks. From being involved in drums and percussion my whole life, I have seen and experienced musical literacy first hand. The various skills and fundamentals of basic musicianship are definitely texts in the eyes of a musician. As far as sheet music goes, there is such variety of text it can get out of control. As seen in your reflective post #2, there is much more than just notes displayed. There are combinations of different symbols conveying things such as dynamics, rests (when not to play), lines, clefs, time signatures, octave signs, brackets, bars, flats, sharps, and the list can go on and on. Musicians and music teachers in fact have an intensive list of text in various forms that they can use in an educational setting.

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What does Music Literacy mean to me?-Reflective Post #3

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What does Music Literacy mean to me?-Reflective Post #3

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In the music classroom, it is easy to teach the students how to play the music and to make it sound pleasant. But do they understand what and why they are doing to achieve this goal? Do they understand why the music calls for this? Literacy in music has students develop a deeper connection with music they play. They can begin to understand why it was written a certain way and why it sounds the way it does when they look at the context behind the music. What was the composer going through? When was it written? Where was it written? What was going on in the world at this time? Did it influence the music? Literacy in the music classroom means walking students through these very questions so they can better understand what they are doing and why.

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Can one form of Literacy have other Literacies within it?-Reflective Post #2

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Can one form of Literacy have other Literacies within it?-Reflective Post #2

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Sheet music is a fairly common form of literacy in the music classroom; but is it just one literacy?  Within sheet music, there are several skills require of someone to accurately "read" music.  You need to be able to;

Read Pitches/Note Names
Read Rhythms
Read Key Signatures
Read Time Signatures
Read Clefs
Read Accidentals
Read Articulations
Read Tempo Markings
Read Style Markings
Read Dynamics
Understand Intonation
Understand Balance
Understand Blend

All these parts come together to allow someone to read music

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What counts as a text?-Reflective Post #1

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What counts as a text?-Reflective Post #1

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You would think texts in music would be limited sole to textbooks and sheet music, right? Wrong. Texts for music literacy are far more diverse than that. It goes beyond physical text; it includes the various skills and fundamentals of basic musicianship that students learn from the beginning, the instruments they play, the music they listen to, the music they play, the technology they use to aid them in music, etc... the list can go on forever. Music teachers have far more tools for literacy development than we give ourselves credit for.

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Literacies in the Music ClassroomEpiphany Post #1

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Literacies in the Music ClassroomEpiphany Post #1

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Literacy in Music is surprisingly complex. Practically every aspect of the music classroom requires some form literacy skill to fully comprehend that aspect. Students' knowledge of their instrument and ability to play the instrument is a literacy itself and even has mini literacies within it. Reading music is yet another major literacy that contains several other literacies within it as well. Student interaction, whether it be music/social/academic, requires some form of literacy in order for students to interact effectively. The music classroom is teeming with hundreds of possibilities to develop a student's literacy skills and the big push today is to capitalize on this. Music teachers need to use these opportunities effectively to give their students the education they deserve; they just need to be aware of where these opportunities are