Governor's: Institute for Arts Educators: Summer 1998
Name:Dr. David Berlin (Project consultant/facilitator) teacher55@mailexcite.com
School District: Pennsylvania Department of Education	School Building: Mercyhurst College, North East, PA
Lesson Title: Tibetan Music
Grade Level: Graduate School
Piloted with students in grade: graduate level	Instructional Hours: 37
PA STANDARD AREA: ARTS AND HUMANITIES X 7.1 Producing, Performing and Exhibiting x 7.2 Historical and Cultural Contexts x 7.3 Critical Response x 7.4 Communicate Aesthetic Response x 7.5 Connection with Other Subject Areas
Specific Standard: (write out from grade 4 or 7 or 10 or advanced column in standards document): Construct a personal statement that demonstrates the contribution of Tibetan music to one's own life based on knowledge and experience.
Lesson Topic/theme: Tibetan Music
overview: (type in 6 lines or less) This is a systematic study of Tibetan chant. Activities are prescribed in listening and responding, analysis, performing, creating and scholarly research into the sociocultural influences upon the music. Examples of sacred chant provide the locus for a systematic study of the musical material. The study will consist of a collection of activities and experiences centered around internet-based research. A process will be followed which will become a model for study of this kind. Each activity in the process will be correlated to the state standards.
Keywords: music, tibet, mandala, aesthetics, standards, education, world music, Pennsylvania
Learning Objective(s): (What will all students do to demonstrate they have reached the standard?): (type in 17 lines or less .) Participants will:1.Have increased sensitivity and understanding of artistic expression from another culture. 2.Conduct internet-based research. 3.Create a world-music study suitable for publication as a web site. 4. Apply a process model for the study of musical examples. 5.Correlate steps in the process with standards. In addition to becoming sensitized to this (Tibetan) musical language, the participants, by experiencing this research model, will contribute to the body of existing knowledge. The results will be published as a web site on the internet. The web-site report will contain findings and conclusions based upon the weeks activities. It will also contain reflective journal entries from the participants. Included in the journals will be assessment criteria in the area of aesthetic response. Participants will assess the nature of their own aesthetic response (as well as that of others) and report the findings as a component of the study.
Materials: (type in 8 lines or less) Computer with internet access, appropriate software, technical support as needed, diskettes and/or other storage medium.
Warm-Up: (type in four lines or less) Verbal presentation at the institute orientation meeting.
Procedure: (type in 43 lines or les 1. Participants Search the internet and find the real-audio performance of Tibetan music.http://www.chron.com/content/interactive/voyager/mandala/chant2.ram http://www.chron.com/content/interactive/voyager/mandala/chant2.ram Participants listen to the music and respond by producing written, analytical data about that music. The data includes descriptions of: Formal Organization Melody Rhythm Harmony Texture Instrumentation and Tone Color Performance Practice (7.3) 2. Share findings, reach consensus and prepare a document which presents the analytical findings of the group. (7.3) 3. Listen to the real-audio performance of the music under discussion. Perform the music by chanting along with the recording. When you feel confident, sing the musical material privately. Perform an excerpt with others in a small group without the recording. This is to be audio/video-captured to be included in the final web-page document. (7.1) 4. Create a new and original chant which exhibits the style characteristics set forth in the findings under activity 1. Prepare a performance and capture if for publication. (7.1 and 7.4) 5. Search the internet and collect data about the sociocultural influences upon that music and how that music is used in Tibetan life. Here are some links to explore. Add to this collection as you find other appropriate resources. http://www.tibet.org http://inic.utexas.edu/asnic/countries/tibet/ http://www.tibetart.com (also conduct your own internet search...If you go to infoseek and type "tibet, mandala" you will get thousands of pages of data) (7.2 and 7.5) 6. View the interactive-multimedia CD-Rom piece about assessing levels of aesthetic response which was prepared by David Berlin. 7. Create a document in which you reflect upon your own response to the music under discussion. Draw conclusions about your own response(s) to the music and whether or not there was a change in response as a result of the study. Assess the responses of other institute participants. Assess the response(s) of selected Governors-School participants using the same criteria. Report your findings and draw conclusions from them.
Correctives: (enrichment activities for students who have not met the standard at proficient or advanced level): (type in 11 lines or less) Seek additional experiences hearing music of various non-western cultures. Hear and analyze additional examples of Tibetan and other non-western examples. Perform alone and/or with others, a repertoire of non-western music. Create new and original music based upon non-western models. Read additional materials about Tibetan life and culture.
Extensions: (Additional activities for students who have met the standard at a proficient or advanced level): (type in 20 lines or less). Create additional studies of non-western musics for publication using this model. Visit Tibet, live there, do ethnomusicalogical research.
Assessment-Task Criteria: How will you judge novice, partially proficient, proficient and advanced? Do you have a model/exemplar of your expectations?: (type in twenty lines or less) Although each standard could be assessed in connection with this lesson,emphasis is on the aesthetic standard for this institute and that is the component addressed here. Novice Seeks another experience with Tibetan music. expresses a desire to hear the music again Partially Proficient Cites examples of other works that are similar in style Names and describes a mood or atmosphere created by the music Proficient Seeks experiences with new works of a similar style or genre. Advanced Creates new, original work which is influenced by the experience  Exemplars can be found in the "Aesthetics" component of Computers in Arts at North Allegheny by James Reinhard and David Berlin