Soule Road Fifth Grade Band
Mrs. Melissa Villamaino
mvillamaino@hwrsd.org
(413) 596-9311
JAZZ BAND 2012
AUDITION INFORMATION/REHEARSAL SCHEDULE
AUDITIONS: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1ST, 2012 AT THORNTON BURGESS MIDDLE SCHOOL
PLEASE SEE MRS. VILLAMAINO FOR
AN AUDITON TIME.
GOOD LUCK!
(CLICK LINK BELOW)
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PRINTABLE PRACTICE LOGS...Due every week!
WELCOME TO FIFTH GRADE BAND 2011-2012!
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Private Lesson Teacher List &
Lesson Options Form...
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Music Advocacy Quotes..
“Music is exciting. It is thrilling to be sitting in a group of musicians playing (more or less) the same piece of music. You are part of a great, powerful, vibrant entity. And nothing beats the feeling you get when you've practiced a difficult section over and over and finally get it right. (yes, even on the wood block.) Music is important. It says things you heart can't say any other way, and in a language everyone speaks. Music crosses borders, turns smiles into frowns, and vice versa. These observations are shared with a hope: that, when schools cut back on music classes, they really think about what they're doing - and don't take music for granted.”
- Dan Rather — CBS News
Music students out-perform non-music on achievement tests in reading and math. Skills such as reading, anticipating, memory, listening, forecasting, recall, and concentration are developed in musical performance, and these skills are valuable to students in math, reading, and science.
- B. Friedman, “An Evaluation of the Achievement in Reading and Arithmetic of
Pupils in Elementary School Instrumental Music Classes,” Dissertation Abstracts International.
- Dan Rather — CBS News
Music students out-perform non-music on achievement tests in reading and math. Skills such as reading, anticipating, memory, listening, forecasting, recall, and concentration are developed in musical performance, and these skills are valuable to students in math, reading, and science.
- B. Friedman, “An Evaluation of the Achievement in Reading and Arithmetic of
Pupils in Elementary School Instrumental Music Classes,” Dissertation Abstracts International.
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. – Robert G. Ingersoll
