This article is about some of the concerns that music education has in secondary schools that are in England and how the people in music education plan on fixing this problem. It talks about some solutions to this problem that England faces in their secondary schools, such as having secondary schools who have music education be less isolated from other cultural contexts. The reason being studies show a decline in attitude towards music and positive gains in maturity and the valuing of music when they are around more musicians and less isolated from the culture. The article also talks about some of the music behaviour and the secondary music curriculum in England and how they plan on changing the behaviour in secondary schools so they can get more people involved in musical education.
I plan on using this source in my mini-ethnography so I can show the effects musical education has on people as a whole. I want to show outsiders through this source how music can be interpreted and taught in many different cultures, such as England, and show how this is similar or different to our musical choir culture over here in the states. I also want to compare the different attitudes and problems England's music education has compared to ours to show outsiders how similar the cultures are even though they are a part of two different countries and how musical education problems are similar no matter where you go.
Stearns, David Patrick. "Donald Nally, and a choir with intelligence ." The Philadelphia Inquirer. 25 December 2006. 1-2. 18 Feb 2009. <http://crossingchoir.com/review_XMass1.pdf>.
This article talks about Donald Nally and the wonderful performance his musical choir, The Crossing, put on during Christmas. Stearns talks about each aspect of the performance that he liked. From the intelligence of the choir to the wonderful crescendoing to the excellent blend and intonation of their singing voices, Stearns talks about each and every thing he found wonderful about the choir and why people should go see them sometime if they ever get the chance.
I am going to use this in my mini-ethnography to show how people in musical choir can affect a person both physically and emotionally. I want to use this as an example of what music can do to a person and how different people view musical choirs as a whole. I feel like this article gives a very good description of certain aspects to look for when it comes to a good musical choir and it gives in very vivid detail how a good musical choir can affect an audience. This article will help me in explaining the effects musical choir can have on an audience and how people have many different perspectives when it comes to musical choirs and arrangements of music.
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