MENC: The National Association for Music Education

Assessment in Music Education has been a hot topic for some time now. Questions have arisen about what to assess, how to assess and even questioning whether to assess at all. Pinpointing the issues at hand is the first task in answering these questions but of course, there are different opinions on where the issues start in Music education. Since the early 2000’s, the education system has adopted standards on the federal, state and local levels in an effort to help ensure a standard proficiency

Fine Arts Education Issues According to the National Art Education Association’s goals for schools, “all elementary schools shall require students to complete a sequential program of art instruction that integrates the study of art production, aesthetics, art criticism, and art history,” (Clark, 1987). Elementary schools are having difficulty because they are cutting back on the fine arts programming and many non-specialist classroom teachers are expected to integrate the fine arts into their

Music is an everyday occurrence for most people. In some way, shape and form, people listen to music. For Christians, specially those at bible college, this can be in chapel day to day. For others it may be in a car or even in the workplace, which can be the case for Christians also. Music for me is an everyday occurrence, not only in chapel but also in other places such as my dorm room and when I get ready for sports. These things has caused me to research the topic of music. It has a huge impact

length with a belled flare at the end (7, 26). Peter Downey explains that in it’s early life, the buisine was used for signaling military commands. Downey states that the buisine was not seen in a music performance until the Ars Nova period when it “began to find a place in the performance of dance music at the courts” (26). In this setting, the buisine would usually provide accompaniment as a bass drone for a shawm, or the