Mrs. Reynolds's Website
Eric Whitacre talks about his choir experience-click me!
Virtual Choir 1-Lux Aurumque-click!
Virtual Choir 3-Water Night-click!
Mansfield University Concert Choir-Eric Whitacre's "Sleep"-click
Africa by Perpetuum Jazzile-click me!
ONLINE Metronome!-Click me!
***ANNOUNCEMENTS***
Attention ALL String Students!
The date of the Spring concert has been changed!
All string students (SRU, Rowe, & HS) will be having one combined concert instead!
the
Athens
SPRING STRING FLING
will be held on Wednesday, May 23 at 7:00 pm at Athens Area High School.
Students should report to the choir room by 6:30 to tune and warm up.
Music can change the world, because it can change people. ~Bono
Why I Teach Music
1. Music is Science: It is exact, specific and it must be 100% correct – 90% is not acceptable. It is unalterable. It demands exact acoustics.
2. Music is Mathematical: It is rhythmically based on the subdivision of time into fractions which must be done instantaneously; it is not performed on paper.
3. Music is a Foreign Language: Most of the terms are in Italian, German or French, and the notation of notes certainly is not English, but a highly developed kind of shorthand.
4. Music is History: Music has always reflected the environment and times of its creation – often even the country or racial feeling.
5. Music is Physical Education: It requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lip, cheek, and facial muscles in addition to extraordinary control of the diaphragmatic, back, stomach, and chest muscles which must respond instantly to the sounds the ear hears and the mind interprets.
6. Music is ALL of these things, but most of all Music is Art: It allows human beings to take all of these dry, technically boring (but fantastically difficult) techniques and use them to create Emotion. That is one thing that science cannot duplicate: feeling or emotion or call it what you will.
That is why I teach music – not because it makes you smarter or better in math (a happy coincidence), not because I expect you to major in music; not because I expect you to play music all your life; not so you can relax; not so you can have fun; not so you can trot around the football field in uniform or play or sing concerts in formal dress . . .But . . . so you will be human; so you will recognize beauty; so you will be sensitive; so you will be closer to an infinite beyond our world; so that you will have something to cling to; so that you will have more love, more compassion, more gentleness, more good - - - in short, more life.
Of what value will it be to make a prosperous living unless you know how to live?
That is Why I Teach Music
Why Music Matters-click to hear an example
Another example of why "close" isn't good enough in music-click here
