Kansas Music Standard #5: The teacher of music has skills in listening to, analyzing, and describing music.

Knowledge

• The teacher knows technical and symbolic vocabulary of music.
• The teacher understands the organization of sound in musical forms.
• The teacher understands the common elements of music and their interaction through aural and visual analysis.

Performance

• The teacher identifies, through visual and aural analysis, composers and music representing diverse styles, periods, cultures, genres, and techniques of musical organization.
• The teacher describes compositional devices and techniques.
• The teacher demonstrates effective strategies for developing students’ growth through a variety of active musical experiences.

For a musician, listening to and analyzing music is vital.  Through listening, analyzing and describing music we are able to understand and produce our own musical ideas using techniques and strategies used by other musicians.  It is important to understand the relationships between styles, periods and cultures to correctly perform music in the way it was meant to be performed.  I have demonstrated this ability through music history classes and analyzing scores for conducting.  This helps me understand the music and how it should be interpreted.  

Artifacts

-Curriculum

This is a year curriculum plan for a high school band program.  I have lined out peices for four concerts and supplied reasonings and learning goals for each peice. This artifact shows my ability to analyze and describe concert band peices to choose for a band program.

Curriculum

-Analysis

This is a measure by measure analysis of the score "Fanfare for the Third Planet".  This analysis covers the technical considerations, rehearsal considerations, and general knowledge of the score.  This artifact show my ability to analyze a score indepth.

Score Analysis