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16 October 2007
OVERVIEW AND BACKGROUND:
I have always had a love of music. I have been involved with music since first grade, and my love
of it has led me to wish to spend my life working with music. After college I wish to create my
own record label and produce music for bands and musicians, but in order to do that I need to
know how to write and arrange music for any instrument. As a result, I have decided that for my
senior project I wish to arrange a composition of music for the clarinet with an accompaniment
for the vibraphone.
PROJECT:
For my senior project I will be taking a composition of music originally written for the piano and
alter it in such a way that it is playable on the clarinet with an accompaniment for the vibraphone.
This will involve taking the original music and rewriting for a different instrument, while keeping
the general feel and style of the composition. I will be required to add in my own variations to
give it a feel that it is my music.
CHALLENGE:
This project will be a challenge for me because I will be learning how to use programs designed
to arrange and write music. I also have never written a piece of music, and even though I will not
be writing an original piece of music, I will be rearranging it and turning it into a piece of music
that will have my name on it. Since my knowledge of music theory is not what it should be at this
point, I will be learning a number of terms and techniques that I have not done or known before.
CAREER/COMMUNITY SERVICE CONNECTION:
My senior project connects to my career because I want to produce music for a living and that
will involve taking already written music and editing it or giving it a bit of my style. It will
basically prepare me for editing, producing and writing music.
MENTOR:
Bob Schofield will be my mentor. He is the music teacher at Paradise High School and has been
teaching music for quite a few years. He has all the necessary equipment and all possible
compositions of music for me to use in order to complete my senior project. He qualifies as my
mentor because he has written music for the drumline and has added parts into music that have
already been published that required additional parts. He also majored in music in college, which
serves the requirement that my mentor have knowledge of music. His work phone number is 872
6425 x 3076 and his home phone number is 8734163.