I respectfully urge the board to vote yes on Initiative 952 and fund the education of tomorrow’s musicians. Initiative 952, with its emphasis on digital recording and production, would entice students back to music class and set them on a lifelong love of musicianship. As a consequence, high school students are abandoning school music classes. As a former high school band conductor and current music professor at a state university, I train professional musicians and study music education curriculum, and I believe that current music classes are not providing what most students desire and what most future professionals need. Additionally, teens are taking to the internet themselves, recording their own work and sending it out to the world, with approximately 12,000 covers of songs being uploaded every 24 hours. However, today’s average teenager listens to music for four hours a day, most of which is created digitally and produced through computer software, drum kits, and keyboards. In its current form, high school music education focuses almost exclusively on large instrumental and vocal ensembles grounded in classical music and conducted by one individual, typically the school’s music teacher. It is high time for music education to enter the digital age. the occasion, or external motivation, for composingįor example, suppose in a music education course you are asked to read the following speech and then compose an opposing argument:.Rhetorical context refers to the circumstances surrounding an act of reading and/or composition.
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