Posting #4

As of right now, I can conclude that my subculture has a lot of the same features as when I was in it before. Teachers still have students sight read music, students still put their music in music folders, students still wear uniforms for performances, and they still have the costumes and props room in the back. I think all of these things will stay the same for a long time, even it if was in a different city or state.

All over the country, I believe choirs would have their music folders, uniforms, and their own costumes and props. Some of the differences between different music classrooms all across the globe would include the smell of the room, how the room is decorated, how the chairs are aligned, how the teacher teaches his students, etc. For example, at my school, the chairs are aligned by rows and the teacher teaches each part separately. At another environment, the subculture might be the same, but the environment would be different. The chairs could be aligned by voice part, not by rows, and the teacher might teach all of the parts together without slowing down. Also, my choir had a febreeze smell and some days a candle smell depending on what the candle was. In another school, the smell could be terrible or have a vanilla smell, depending on the kind of school it is.

As for other countries, I feel like music is taught by playing and hearing the music rather than singing and reading. In Mexico, Spain, Germany, etc, I bet most of them learn music by ear and learned how to play an instrument by teaching themselves or had someone teach them, which is where our music subculture is similar to other cultures of music. We all have the same instruments, same music, same rhythm. The only difference is how we play and how we teach the music.

Music is affected by what is going on in that particular culture. For example, when 9/11 happened, you noticed a lot of our music related to soldiers and 9/11. When Vietnam was going on, most of our music talked about the war. Music is affected by what is going on in that culture. All over the world, music is portrayed by what is going on in the world. Which is how music comes back and relates to one another. Each subculture of music has its own unique way to get its point across and most music relates to something that is going on either in the world or that country's environment.

I believe the culture I was in would be a little different if it was in another country or state, but I do believe the music would be taught the same way. I would still have to be able to learn to sight read music. I would still have to be able to hear the different voice parts and know when my part comes in. I would still have to get lessons from someone if I wanted to get good at playing an instrument. Even though music is different depending on where you're at, how it's taught will never change no matter where you are.