Your students are blooming into young composers this semester. As part of their process for learning how to compose and notate music, students were asked to get a manuscript paper notebook for class by February 1 to keep an ongoing journal of rhythmic ideas. While some students have done this, many have not. Manuscript paper can be found at any music store or online for $5. You can also print manuscript paper and staple it together if this option would make more sense given financial or time constraints.
Since the students are composing with partners, it is essential that their in class time is spent working on their compositions. If students are able, they can bring in laptops to use a free music composing software called MuseScore. It is super user friendly, and I will give them tutorials in class if they bring in their laptops.
I have talked to the technology specialist at school to see if we can get MuseScore downloaded onto the school laptops, but he said it would depend on their availability during testing. In the meantime, if students can bring in laptops, it will help their collaboration in class and their composing in general to be a much smoother process (you can hear what you are writing in time, and can tell whether it sounds good or not).
The document above is the rubric for this project (see the * for details on specific requirements for each class). I thought it might be helpful for you to understand the scope of this assignment as well as the due date.
Due to low attendance at our last 5pm concert, I am changing the start time of the original composition concert to 6pm on March 22. All band students will perform their small group compositions this night, and we have several students and myself who are working on compositions for the whole band (in addition to their duet and trio projects).
Please make sure your students have all their work turned in. Grades will be updated with everything that has been turned in by the end of today. Practice logs are a weekly assignment, and compose 50 points of the students' grades each 6 weeks. Please remind your students to complete these, as many students are missing a few of these at this time. I do accept late practice logs.
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