Clinician Name: Richard Miles E-mail Address: r.miles@morehead-st.edu
Clinic Title: The Music Score Is the Curriculum
Clinic Synopsis: This session will feature ideas and concepts for teaching comprehensive musicianship in rehearsal through repertoire. Topics include selecting/evaluating quality music, strategies for teaching music in rehearsal, developing a rehearsal plan, effective use of rehearsal time, teacher responsibilities, several curricular models based on literature selection, and strategies for teaching comprehensive musicianship.
What is the target audience for this clinic? Any conductor looking to teach music and musicianship through performance literature
What will the audience take away from this clinic? Each participant will have the opportunity to design a sequential and cyclic plan to teach a comprehensive music curriculum based on literature selection specifically designed for their program while incorporating the National Standards. Strategies to teach musicianship while preparing for performance will be presented and will include the creation of units of instruction, lesson plans, and rehearsal outlines. Participants will compare and evaluate the process of rehearsing and teaching.
What is included in the handout? The handout will include an outline of the topics and strategies to be presented. A Comprehensive Literature Listing of all volumes of the Teaching Music through Performance in Band series will also be included.
Is there anything else you would like attendees to know about this clinic? All will be encouraged to develop a comprehensive approach for their group for performances with understanding and to teach about the music...concepts all presented in the internationally acclaimed series, Teaching Music through Performance in Band, Orchestra, and Choir.
Biographical Information: Richard Miles, Professor of Music and Director of Bands at Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky, holds a Doctor of Philosophy from Florida State University, and graduate and undergraduate degrees from the University of Illinois and Appalachian State University. In addition to the supervision and administration of the MSU Bands, he teaches undergraduate and graduate conducting. He has co-authored, compiled, and edited the internationally recognized wind band series: Teaching Music through Performance in Band, Teaching Music through Performing Marches, and Teaching Music through Performance in Beginning Band. Miles is a Past President of the Kentucky Music Educators Association, Past President of the College Band Directors National Association (Southern Division), and is in demand as a guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator.
Sponsor: GIA Publications, Inc.