Major (Music) Gripes
I need some help. And in all honesty I have NO idea where to look. And NO, it's not about boys (cause I know that's what you all were thinking!)
So I was talking to Nissa a couple days ago and again, she got me thinking about my major. Maybe it's cause I didn't really enjoy my classes this quarter and spring quarter school kind of sucked or whatever, but I'm thinking. In my opinion, it's too late to change my major and I want to keep doing CHID, at least for undergrad. But this music thing is nagging at me. Specifically the musical theatre option. I want to go somewhere where I have plenty of opportunities to play in pit orchestras and studio musician type settings. So I've been looking at schools with musical theatre majors, just because if they have the major, that means there should be a lot more options to play. But I don't know if that's true. Obviously I would have to get back into performance, but I would only want to do that if I had a teacher who was willing to work with me on the stuff that's important to me. I don't want to go back and learn all of Mozart's concertos and play through Bach sonatas. I want to work on the skills that make me a good musician for what I want to do. And I know those classical pieces help you with that, but I want a teacher who will work with me to get to my eventual goals, so I don't have to hide what I really want to do with my music. Like if I had continued with composition at UW, I really wouldn't be able to seriously focus on composing film music, just because that's not the direction the comp department works with.
Ugh, and then we get to music education. It would be my dream to teach kids to love music like I do and get as much joy out of it as I do. But how to go about that?! It seems like every school I can think of has a music ed dept where you have to take lessons and be a semi-performance major, at least in my view. I don't NEED to be as good as James Galway, I just want to teach kids about the love of music. I understand technique classes, and basic piano and all that, but why do they have to shove lessons down your throat? Why is it necessary? Maybe this is totally ignorant of me, but this is my view on things lately. WTF with these major decisions?!
So I was talking to Nissa a couple days ago and again, she got me thinking about my major. Maybe it's cause I didn't really enjoy my classes this quarter and spring quarter school kind of sucked or whatever, but I'm thinking. In my opinion, it's too late to change my major and I want to keep doing CHID, at least for undergrad. But this music thing is nagging at me. Specifically the musical theatre option. I want to go somewhere where I have plenty of opportunities to play in pit orchestras and studio musician type settings. So I've been looking at schools with musical theatre majors, just because if they have the major, that means there should be a lot more options to play. But I don't know if that's true. Obviously I would have to get back into performance, but I would only want to do that if I had a teacher who was willing to work with me on the stuff that's important to me. I don't want to go back and learn all of Mozart's concertos and play through Bach sonatas. I want to work on the skills that make me a good musician for what I want to do. And I know those classical pieces help you with that, but I want a teacher who will work with me to get to my eventual goals, so I don't have to hide what I really want to do with my music. Like if I had continued with composition at UW, I really wouldn't be able to seriously focus on composing film music, just because that's not the direction the comp department works with.
Ugh, and then we get to music education. It would be my dream to teach kids to love music like I do and get as much joy out of it as I do. But how to go about that?! It seems like every school I can think of has a music ed dept where you have to take lessons and be a semi-performance major, at least in my view. I don't NEED to be as good as James Galway, I just want to teach kids about the love of music. I understand technique classes, and basic piano and all that, but why do they have to shove lessons down your throat? Why is it necessary? Maybe this is totally ignorant of me, but this is my view on things lately. WTF with these major decisions?!