Date for Entry: (Wednesday 25 December 2019)
Actual Date of Online Entry: (Wednesday 23rd March 2022)
Dear Diary,
The song of choice for the Sunday
School Steelband was “Do you Hear What I Hear” as a collaboration arrangement
by Mr. Sharma and myself. I did the first attempt and he took it to fix
something in it. We had the performance done somewhere after the sermon.
Link(s):
Daryl Zion M. Ali
Date for Entry: (Friday 6 December 2019)
Actual Date of Online Entry: (Wednesday 23rd March 2022)
Dear Diary,
In this semester, there were only
three out of the five courses that came with a final written examination which
were Choral Arranging, Individual Steelpan (of Performance music 5), and Musi
Education 1.
The composition required a final
portfolio and the Caribbean Studies Project (thesis) being a ‘year-long’ course
did not have a final submission.
However, for the thesis, a draft
review of work done for the semester had to be done by the supervisor and
he/she had to fill out that review form and then had it submitted to the
appropriate office. Mr. Sharma and I did not know if marks were involved in
this but we did the review and I went to submit the form immediately after that
exercise was completed.
Link(s):
CHORAL ARRANGING.
FINAL CONDUCTING &
FINAL EXAMINATION
* Friday 6 December
2019 *
The “Handsome Butcher” was given
to us as a final conducting piece. I had a lot of markings on my score to help
revise it. This was conducted at noon just before the final written
examination. It took us a long while to get through everyone’s conducting and
sing it every time. Everyone had to submit their journal entries and then run
down to MD3 for the exam. The journal was supposed to record our conducting
experiences in the course every time we did it. I had forgotten to write the
dates in them so most of the entries would have “Forgotten/Unknown”.
The final examination was long
but they still gave us two hours. I used up all the time. Only four times I had checked over. My receipt was labelled and placed into my folder for
safekeeping after. Some of us were trying to figure out which question was used
for the definition of choral that Mr. Murry said to look out for since the
first class. I wrote it down in my book when he said, “Text is the basis of
choral music.”
Link(s):
PERFORMANCE MUSIC
5 [JURY]: INDIVIDUAL STEELPAN.
* Monday 9 December
2019 *
The exam was in the morning and started at nine. My two
pieces were “Allegro” by J. H. Fiocco and the second piece was misplaced. It is
not known at this time. During the semester, Mr. Sharma had me try one of his
compositions in an outdated steelpan examination book.
Link(s):
MUSIC EDUCATION 1.
* Monday 16 December
2019 *
The Music Education 1 final
examination was a tough one. The two hours were not enough. We really should
have three hours in the same way we have three hours of class. I felt like I
was defeated. It was only until the first class on Music Education 2, in the
next semester that Mr. Sharma made the joke that everyone failed which was
true. I was really close to that twenty-five.
Link(s):
Daryl Zion M. Ali
