FAMEous Student Composer Questionnaire #3

Hi FAMEous Student Composers!

Post comments below to answer the following questions to reflect on your learning experiences during the FAME/Fort Wayne Philharmonic Composition Project. Remember to post your comment using your first name only.


1. Now that you have helped create a musical composition yourself, what would you say the hardest part of composing is?

2. What is the most fun part about composing?

3. How would you say your musical signature composition turned out?

4. What did you learn that you didn’t know about what professional composers do?

5. Do you think you will continue to create music in different ways?

6. What did you learn about the music of other cultures during the project?

7. Do you think that FAME and the Fort Wayne Philharmonic should bring in a composer-in-residence to work with student composers again?

8. If you had a friend who was going to work with a composer next year like you just did what would you tell him/her to expect?

9. What life skills did you use by participating in the project?

FAMEous Student Composer Self-Evaluation

Hi FAMEous Student Composers!

Look through your Project Portfolio and examine the papers and work you have done during the project. Think about how your perceptions and feelings about music have changed because of participating in the project. Post comments below to answer the following questions to reflect on your work during the FAME/Fort Wayne Philharmonic Composition Project. Remember to post your comment using your first name only.

1. What part of the project are you most proud of?

2. What part of the project was different from anything you have ever done before?

3. Has this portfolio helped you learn more about music?

4. What would you like to do next to add to your FAMEous student composer portfolio?

5. How did you need to cooperate and compromise with the other FAMEous student composers during the composition
sessions?

6. Has the project helped you learn more about the life and work of a composer?

7. How much effort did you give to learn from the FAME Composer-Residence, Mr. David Crowe during the project?

8. What grade would you give yourself for the work you have done during the project?

FAMEous Student Composer Survey

Hi FAMEous Student Composers!

Post comments below to answer the following questions to reflect on your learning experiences during the FAME/Fort Wayne Philharmonic Composition Project. Remember to post your comment using your first name only.

1. Through your participation in the project did you learn about melody, rhythm and meter, harmony, phrasing, form, tone color, texture, expression, mood, style, orchestration?

2. Do you feel you actually experienced the process of creating a musical composition?

3. Could you identify your musical signature composition in the finished composition?

4. Was this your first musical composition?

5. Do you understand more about how composers create music?

6. Do you want to learn more about music composition?

7. Do you wish this project could last longer?

8. Did you learn more about musical careers in music by participating in this project?

9. How do you feel about the Fort Wayne Philharmonic performing the composition that you helped to create?

10. Do you think you will attend other Fort Wayne Philharmonic concerts in the future?

FAMEous Student Composer/Parent Conversation Form

To the parent: Please take a few minutes to review your child’s Project Portfolio. It contains his/her student work and reflections completed during the music composition sessions with FAME Composer-In-Residence, Mr. David Crowe. Please consider what your child learned about music, music composition, performance, and life in general from the project and then answer the questions below. Please enter your comment using your first names only.

1. Did your child enjoy the project?

2. What did your child share with you regarding the composition sessions with Mr. Crowe, the official rehearsal, the premiere performance, and his/her Project Portfolio assignments?

3. What surprises you most about the process and creative work your child experienced during the project?

4. What would you say are the main things that your child learned from participating in the project?

5. Has monitoring the composition sessions, Official Rehearsal, and Premiere Performance been worthwhile to you?

6. Have there been any changes in your child’s creative work habits and attitudes because
of participating in the project?

7. Do you have any additional comments, questions, or suggestions for improving the project?