“Alman” Worksheet

Date for Entry: (Sunday 14 October 2018)

Actual Date of Online Entry: (Saturday 13th August 2022)

Dear Diary,

    After lunch, I was expecting a visitor at home number two in Curepe. His name was Joshua and he had passed for Hillview in this SEA period that just went. He was accompanied by his mom and aunty Zida brought them for the evening. These were our first acquaintances.

    The visit today was for me to assist/tutor Joshua with a recorder piece called “Alman”. He showed me the piece that Ms. Saunders gave the class. I remembered having to prepare and learn this for marks in my Form One time at Hillview.

    Before our lesson and practice began, I took a blank sheet of paper and rewrote the same piece from his notebook into the image above. I only had a green and a black marker at the time. I showed Joshua the page and told him that the letters will mimic crotchets, minims, and whichever note symbols were needed for the rhythms.

    I was comfortable enough to watch the same sheet on the table and read it upside down. I played the piece from my recorder that I walked with for the session. I gave him two trials on his own but asked him to pause after the first playing before trying again. I had to see if there was difficulty with the music or to see where I could give suggestions on breathing. In the image, you will see where the use of commas (or ‘breath pause’ like makings) to indicate how and where to inhale.

    We tried the same piece twice again, which was the lesson’s end. I also gave Joshua photocopies of some notes with music theory and from the Recorder Book 1 that I had in case he might need it later. That was the orange book. We had a good chat about his first experiences with Hillview and some of the teachers. One last play of “Alman” was requested by everyone before leaving. We did play the piece on our recorders together.

[UPDATE]

    Some weeks had gone by until I was given the news that Joshua’s mom passed down from Zida that Joshua did the “Alman” piece in class. He said that the class clapped for him but he only made a mistake and stopped to breathe. I was very happy for him.

Daryl Zion M. Ali

Music Literatures of the Steelpan - Course Materials

 Date for Entry: (Thursday 11th October 2018)

Actual Date of Online Entry: (Thursday 10th March 2022)

[WRITTEN AS REPORT]

Dear Diary,

    In this entry, I list my works for the Music Literatures of the steelpan course materials. They are to assist the students in completing their assignments and to assist in making the course more student-friendly. Below is an account of all the work that was done by myself (as part of the DAPHA Project) for the course.

Link(s):

1. 'Scratch Created' Textbook - (Version 4).

ASSIGNMENT FORMS (ALL VERSIONS).

* Thursday 11th October 2018 *

    The 1st versions of both forms were done to do my assignments. I really wanted to do over the kind that Dr. Remy sent by email. The book report form is usually used for assignments 2 and 3. The newspaper clipping form is used at the archives and for the microfilm assignment. (Thursday 11th October 2018)

    For the 2nd version, I decided to add watermarks. Dr. Remy and I were excited to use them and see how they turned out. Unfortunately, after a semester of putting it into the trial, there was some difficulty set with the watermark being too bold on the paper. (2019)

    In the 3rd Version, all the watermarks were taken out. The header was amended in both forms. The book report form was changed on pages two and three. I designed page three to be duplicated for how many pages the student needed. The newspaper report form was an adoption of the "A Season of Steelpan" form version. 

    I'm not sure how useful this was for Dr. Remy and her new batch of students for that particular academic year. Unfortunately for me, Microsoft Word observed several technical challenges and destroyed my work for the "A Season of Steelpan" series book. I was still proud of this version for the students. It seemed more professional and 'official' in a way. (2020)

Link(s):

1. Book Report Form - (Version 1-2). ** [For Request by Email.]
2. Book Report Form - (Version 3).
3. Newspaper Report Form - (Version 1-2). ** [For Request by Email.]
4. Newspaper Report Form - (Version 3).

NEWSPAPER CLIPPING POWERPOINTS.

* Tuesday 18th December 2018 *

    During the vacation period (year 2, semester 1) of the Music Degree, as I was cutting through some newspapers for more steelpan Articles, I thought that there should also be proper techniques to share with the students and show them that when they cut paper how it came to be destroyed easy in future in the library either by age or by audience usage. I did separate PowerPoints to emphasize certain types of article clippings.

Link(s):

1. Short-Sized Articles.
2. Full-Page Articles.
3. Two Separate Page Articles.
4. Double-Sided Sheet Articles.
5. Irregular-Shaped Articles.

LIST OF STEELBANDS.

* Saturday 29th December 2018.*

    In the course, there were eight pages containing a list of names of steelbands. I was able to take that list and condense it into three pages. I thought of the Steelpan Arranging 1 course I did with Dr. Remy's degree and thought that it would have been more helpful to the students with just three pages.

Link(s):

1. List of South Steelbands. ** [See Textbook for list.]

MLA Handouts.

* Monday 18th February 2019 *

    I was in the Festival Library at DCFA and then I received a message. It was a message from Dr. Remy saying that she had to speak with me. When I knew she was in school, I shut back down the laptop and went upstairs to Cheeseman Building to visit her. I did not know what it was.

    When I got there, she told me that the students in the class (Music Literature of the Steelpan) were having trouble doing the MLA. They had just updated MLA citation to version eight. She took out a page with writing and boxes and showed me what she had planned. Just by looking at the paper, I realized that Dr. Remy was asking me to help her make a handout to teach the students how to do the MLA. This is what she continued to tell me and she said that the students were getting a lot of trouble trying to do the citation.

    I took the page she gave me and did the work overnight. The next day, I went back to visit her in the office to submit the work. I showed Dr. Remy the handout she wanted me to make. In addition, there was a second one I had made for her where I did a sample of the assignment’s form filled out with the newspaper article done.

Link(s):

1. Newspaper Form Worksheet (Dr. Remy's Template).
2. Newspaper Form Worksheet (My Product).

Daryl Zion M. Ali