Evan S. Tobias
Assistant Professor Music Education @ ASU Herberger Insttitute for Design and the Arts School of Music
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Mountain Lake Colloquium 2013 General Music & Music Teacher Education

By etobias On May 18, 2013 · Add Comment
I always look forward to the Mountain Lake Colloquium for teachers of general music methods. This conference addresses issues related to those in music teacher education who focus on general music. It is a wonderful conference and community. This year’s conference will focus on the theme “re-visioning and re-inventing our music teacher education practices and [...]
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A warning on moving from complex goals to discrete and disconnected tasks

By etobias On April 20, 2013 · Add Comment
Grant Wiggins (of Wiggins & McTighe’s Understanding by Design) recently highlighted the issue of breaking things into little bits in education. new post on the error of breaking complex goals into itty bitty pieces & marching thru them, & the warning on c core: grantwiggins.wordpress.com — Grant Wiggins (@grantwiggins) April 20, 2013 He focuses on [...]
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Considering the “next great copyright act”

By etobias On March 21, 2013 · Add Comment
Wired recently published an article titled “Copyright Chief Urges Congress to Produce ‘Next Great Copyright Act’ regarding upcoming testimony on copyright to congress.  As Mitch Stoltz and Parker Higgins from the Electronic Frontier Foundation state “if it’s open season on the Copyright Act, let’s be involved from the start.” Music educators ought to be a part [...]
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Perspectives on Marching Band and School Music Programs: Frank Deford’s commentary

By etobias On March 13, 2013 · Add Comment
Frank Deford’s recent commentary on Marching band  titled “School Bands Should not be Entertainment Adjunct for Sports” (on NPR) generated some very interesting dialogue on the comment section of the NPR website. Deford’s key point is that students should not be required to be members of the school marching band. He frames marching bands as [...]
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From Old School to New Schulwerk: Addressing Sound Worlds of Contemporary Popular Music

By etobias On March 3, 2013 · Add Comment
From Old School to New Schulwerk: Addressing Sound Worlds of Contemporary Popular Music  Evan S. Tobias To Cite or Download the article:  Tobias, E. (2011) From Old School to New Schulwerk: Addressing Sound Worlds of Contemporary Popular Music.The Orff Echo, 43(4), 19-23. This article, written for the Orff Echo, addresses considerations for integrating popular music [...]
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Let’s play! Learning music through video games and virtual worlds

By etobias On March 1, 2013 · Add Comment
Tobias, E. S. (2012). Let’s play! Learning music through video games and virtual worlds. In G. McPherson & G. Welch (Eds.), Oxford handbook of music education (Vol. 2, pp. 531-548). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199928019.013.0035 This chapter examines the ways video games promote musical learning and engagement. It begins by outlining the background [...]
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Breaking Winds Bassoon Quartet: A model for contemporary musicianship and additional directions for school ensembles

By etobias On June 25, 2012 · Add Comment
During my presentation at the NAfME Composition Academy this past Music Education Week I mentioned the Breaking Winds Bassoon Quartet, but forgot to include a link to their Kickstarter Project Page in my handout. There was quite a bit of discussion related to arrangement throughout several of the composition academy presentations. Dr. Rob Deemer and [...]
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Expanding Secondary Music Curricula: A look at students engaging with popular music, technology, and creating original music

By etobias On May 31, 2012 · Add Comment
Tobias, E. S. (2012). Hybrid spaces and hyphenated musicians: Secondary students’ musical engagement in a songwriting and technology course. Music Education Research, 14(3), 329-346. A research article I wrote entitled Hybrid spaces and hyphenated musicians: Secondary students’ musical engagement in a songwriting and technology course is now available in the journal Music Education Research. Below [...]
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Project Based Learning & Music Education: Resources

By etobias On May 28, 2012 · Add Comment
The lastest version of Edutopia focuses on best practices for Project Based Learning, highlighting a school that incorporates this approach to teaching and learning. Project based learning is an approach that works naturally in music education settings and can assist music educators in providing students with deep and rich engagement and learning that can be [...]
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Valved low brass in jazz. . .

By etobias On May 19, 2012 · Add Comment
In the following two posts, jazz musician and educator George Colligan speaks to the issue of valved low brass instruments in the context of performing jazz music. If you have any perspectives on the trombone, euphonium, marching baritone and other low brass instruments (or any instruments for that matter) in the context of your school [...]
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