Introduction to Music History

Friends,

I'm not going in any particular order here. This next class is MU131 Introduction to Music History. I took this class in Fall 2007 and it was taught by Dr. Janet Landreth.

The class consisted of daily lecture, there exams, one take home exam, one paper and one group presentation. The only documentation from this class I still have is of two tests. The paper was lost with time and/or the computer crashes between then and now, and I never had kept a copy of the group presentation.

Here are links to exam two and three for your enjoyment. Each exam contained listening examples from the Norton Scores, picked randomly from scores studied in class. Hope this helps!

As usual, please disregard any marks made in the exams. I don't have time to go through and check whether or not the answers marked are correct. I am doing this to give an idea of what the test is like, and not to give away a bunch of free answers. I hold no responsibility for your usage of these markings.

Enjoy!

Exam two

Exam three

Jazz Pedagogy

Friends,

My first archive of an old class is MU 425 Jazz Pedagogy. I took this class in Spring 2008 and it was taught by Peter Sommer.

I have linked three documents to this post to give the user an idea of what kind of work this class entails. Two of the documents are observation reports from two different events, each of which required some critical thought and 5-6 pages of type. The third is the midterm exam. I would have uploaded the final exam as well, but I never received my graded copy of it. Please disregard any markings made by the professor, especially on my pretty atrocious testing skills in the midterm.

I would like to archive some files from classes I have taken here, because I want to give people an idea of what to expect out of these classes. I hope it helps, and enjoy!

CSU Jazz Ensembles Observation

Greeley Jazz Festival Observation

Midterm Exam

Resume

Friends,

My first and most obvious choice of documents to have critiqued is my professional resume. You can find a link to my most current version here.

The document that you are looking at is the meat and potatoes of my resume. It does not include my references list and I only provide that when it is asked for. My goal in this particular document is to have a very concise look at what I have to offer professionally. Thus, it is only one page long. This is a model that has worked for my mother, who has had far too much experience finding work.

Please comment to this post if you have any suggestions or feedback. I am always looking to make myself more presentable, and any advice helps. Also, feel free to steal this formatting. I feel like it works pretty well.

I will update this post whenever I make big revisions to my resume.

Thanks everyone!

A work in progress

Friends,

First post!

I am currently in the process of getting together an online professional portfolio of all the things I do. This blog is a means to receive feedback on the work that I've done in my life. The first thing I will do in this lifelong work in progress is to upload all the academic papers I've written since I began my career at Colorado State University. This will take a little while but I think will be worth it.

Keep in mind that all original works automatically have an all rights reserved copyright (©). This is true whether or not it is stated on the document. Thus said, you must contact me directly if you wish to use any of my material for any reason whatsoever, including simply posting it on your website. Please direct such inquiries to the e-mail address battleclown@gmail.com.

A lot of this material will be hosted on my website, which is located here.

Some of this material will be previously completed assignments as part of my coursework here at Colorado State. In a nutshell, I want to make this available to people so that they know what to expect out of classes. There is no reason to go into college blind. More on that later.

Thanks for reading, and some updates will come soon!