The literature of this "portfolio" is a combination of music journal entries and DAPHA Projects journals done by Daryl Ali.
It is a digital account of his life experiences, works of many and accomplishments.
Actual Date of Online Entry: (Wednesday 23rd March 2022)
Dear Diary,
This particular class did not carry many sessions when the COVID-19 lockdown came. Whenever a new piece was introduced, the entire composition was given to me instead of small portions. I was glad that Sir was able to trust me in sending all the music in one go. I had all of them transcribed at the end of each session.
I was asked to record all pieces done in class along with assigned scales and technical exercises for marking. For me, it was a huge amount of video required. The recordings were done by cell phone. I wished there was a time when some of us could say how much they did. Without having access to a harmonium I was allowed to use the Piano. I did all of the harder alankars (exercises) that were given to us.
DHUN EXERCISE.
* Monday 6th April 2020 *
On this day, only the first page was given to me. I had decided to take the Chorus and Verse (Sthayee and Antraa) from Mr. Maharaj and expand them into a full composition. I think that is what Mr. Maharaj was explaining the Dhun to me. On Monday 13th April 220 this entire composition was completed after some days of working on it on the piano. I had the opportunity to try fingerings on Musescore.
I was wondering if there would have been more explaining for that section but I took the experience from transcribing his pieces for the ensemble and came up with the music submitted for marking.
Link(s):
Dhun Composition (Version 4) - Final.**
Recording for Grading.**
BHAIRAVI THAAT.
* x *
Bhairavi was the first chosen thaat. I had to play the scale with three different scale patterns. In each of the three chosen patterns recorded, I had to play the same scale at a slow speed, medium speed, and fast.
Link(s):
Bhairavi Thaat - Alaankar #3.**
Bhairavi Thaat - Alaankar #7.**
Bhairavi Thaat - Alaankar #10.**
KALYAN THAAT.
* x *
Kalyan was the second chosen thaat. I had to play the scale with three different scale patterns. In each of the three chosen patterns recorded, I had to play the same scale at a slow speed, medium speed, and fast.
Link(s):
Kalyan Thaat - Alaankar #3.**
Kalyan Thaat - Alaankar #7.**
Kalyan Thaat - Alaankar #10.**
KHAMAAJ THAAT.
* x *
Khamaaj was the third chosen thaat. I had to play the scale with three different scale patterns. In each of the three chosen patterns recorded, I had to play the same scale at a slow speed, medium speed, and fast.
Link(s):
Khamaaj Thaat - Alaankar #7.**
Khamaaj Thaat - Alaankar #10.**
C MAJOR.
* x *
C Major was the chosen tonic for all pieces with Mr. Maharaj's class. I also had to play the scale with three different scale patterns. In each of the three chosen patterns recorded, I had to play the same scale at a slow speed, medium speed, and fast.
Actual
Date of Online Entry: (Monday 27th June 2022)
Dear Diary,
The time for the final year came and I knew I would be forced to do this ('year long') course. It was a course I knew that Degree students had to put together a project together like a book called a thesis and I was very scared of it since my certificate days. The thesis was just one of the many reasons why I did not want to do the degree in music.
There were no fixed days and times for thesis meetings with Mr. Sharma. He had agreed to be my supervisor for this project. I can recall people telling me to pick a topic that I was "interested in music" or "what is it that interests you the most" about something from my field of study.
Truthfully, I had no idea what I was interested in. Indeed, I had to go back to my second year days in primary school to study my entire life. Instead, I discovered questions bringing panic instead of a topic. It made me question why I was into music. It was not something I chose on my own. I only knew that it was chosen for me. And when passion came to the 'brainstorming table', I realised that I was going with the music as a person walking with me for all this time.
I did not understand why it would take me so long to find a topic. I felt left behind when others in the class were already with their topic and filling out their forms for topic registration. I even had a whole meeting with Mr. Sharma on just picking a topic alone. He was telling me that it is good to have three really good topics in case the one I chose was already taken or written on. He had to take a phone call in the middle of it so that gave me some time to think of it. All I could think about was Dr. Remy's Music Literature of the Steelpan Course.
That course was something I wish I could have expanded on because I knew I liked making books from small. I could hear my thoughts from within saying, "Pick a topic you could talk on plenty." It made a lot of sense. I had a lot of work to work on and if it was a topic I could "talk on plenty" I would have exactly what to say, where to find the information either at home or in the library and how to structure the whole project. The bonus on it was that steelpan is a major aspect of the Caribbean and it still is a section of music that requires expansion.
It was not easy convincing Mr. Sharma after his long phone call, to accept what I had written down in my copybook as the topic. We came up with two other topics and after I got some time to work on the wording, he reviewed them. By the end of my individual steelpan class with him the next week, I had my topic registration form filled out and he had to sign it, along with his copy and my copy. As soon as he signed it and I got into the car, I asked daddy to take me down to the 'Big UWI' to submit the three forms immediately ( **** September 2019).
We were asked to attend an online class for the thesis. I was very excepted because it was the first online class I was attending. The platform was called Blackboard Collaborate. I found the software very professional and really high-quality. This was a part of UWI's My-E-Learning. The PowerPoint slides were amazing. I appreciated all of the decorations. This plenary was not stressful or as scary as I thought it would be.
The second semester was to be done in person in a classroom in the Humanities Building. I cannot recall the time it began. The entire class in a complicated group from all other creative fields were assembled. We met Dr. McCollins and Mrs. Marshall who ran the course in person.
This plenary literally gave us insight into everything expected in the project. Towards the end of the seminar, Mrs. Marshall gave us back our topic registration Forms. They kept a copy that was supposed to be theirs and I received the copy for Mr. Sharma and my personal copy.
This was the submission of a form that the supervisor had to fill and I had to submit it in Mrs. Marshall's cubical down at the 'Big UWI'. On Thursday before, I had enough of someone provoking and damaging me all semester long.
The semester and exams were over so I went to set up my little table in school to do some painting in the Cheesman Building. I want the distraction from everything that had happened to me. This was a wish of mine to be able to sit in school and do the painting. All the pieces would go towards my composition assignments for the composition course with Mr. Sharma.
Surprising an art school don't have a place for their painters to paint. I listened to the piano pieces for the exam going on inside Lecture Room 3. Did not know it was an exam until I heard applause.
As the exam came to an end everyone exited the building and then I saw Mr. Sharma and Mrs. Ramlal looking down at me. He told me that the submission for the thesis mid-term review was supposed to be done and we didn't go through it. Didn't even know I had to do that. The moment the joke came I could have exploded.
So when they left me: I packed up my stuff, went all the way home, got my flashdrive with the project, and got back to school at the scheduled time that same day. I had an hour to wait to get back to school in the office's waiting area for the student there to finish.
The project was looked at with everything that was done and Mr. Sharma filled out his supervisor's form. It did not take more than an hour to do. As soon as that was over, I went down to the 'Big UWI' immediately again and submitted that form to Mrs. Marshall. Overall, I'm not sure how many students would have done this but it did seem like an important exercise to see if the student was doing their work.
SEMINAR #3.
* Unknown/Forgotten Date (February 2020) *
This was the final seminar for the course. It was a very lengthy and energy-consuming one. It was a review of everything discusses in the previous seminars and also some other guidelines on the submission and the content of our projects. My hand was writing as fast as it could while the two ladies spoke. Their advice and comments were not in the slides.
The date above was the deadline for the thesis. However, for me, I was at home number two in the shed having a review of my thesis (on Thursday 16th April 2020). I decided to convert the Microsoft file into a PDF and then have it submitted to the appropriate portal of UWI's My-E-Learning platform.
Indeed, it was an early submission. My work was already reviewed with Mr. Sharma the evening before and he told me to "keep checking over and if you really want to submit early then the choice is yours." I asked for his opinion because I wanted to submit it on time.
I did not want something to go wrong such as glitches or an overload of students on the platform causing a delay with their uploads on the deadline mentioned above. I decided to enjoy the rest of the evening. One short surprise scare was that Dr. Remy told me I spelt Mr. Funk's name incorrect without the K. I didn't bother. The project was complete and was finally over with until the deadline at 4PM was met.
Actual
Date of Online Entry: (Monday 27th June 2022)
**image of textbook cover.
Dear Diary,
This course took place in the Pan
Theatre/Studio 3 of the campus instructed by Mr. Sharma. It would be my second course
in there are the fundamentals of Steelpan Arranging in the Certificate programme.
We were given copies of the course textbook and a baton. They were to be paid
for from the second class which I did. I really did like the coloured paper of
the course textbook. It was a nice add as compared to all the other compiled
textbooks that were handed down to us in previous classes.
This course would have been a
practical one where each member would have a change to practice conducting
different full band excerpts. When one person was up in front, we were expected
to be paying attention of direction/instruction by Mr Sharma and playing the
music at the same time. Whenever other students were conducting, I had my book
and pencil to the side in case other notes were needed. I just wrote them out
in my course textbook instead for easy lesson finding.
I can remember that I was the
first in class to go up and do the conducting. I wasn’t scared but really
excited to try. There were two times in class that I was called on. The third
would have been the mid-term assessment. Other events occurring from this course
would be reflect on below.
This was the day after my birthday
and that crazy exam from Mr. Murray. I also had my thesis interview done with
Dr. Remy earlier this morning. We had conducting exam today. I was the first
one to go up and do the exam. I got to school in all black. A dress code was
not given for the exam but I thought that would have been suitable for the exam
because it would given the class members playing more focus to my face and
hands.
There were four pieces to do: (1)
an excerpt from lesson one, (2) an excerpt from lesson two, (3) an excerpt from
the fermatas section, and (4) excerpt from the lecturer’s choice. As I conducted,
I saw the notes I made from the classes and remembered what to do.
There were some where I was asked
to do the conducting over. The best ones were uploaded to YouTube as an
unlisted video by Mr. Sharma for us to do our evaluations. We were asked to
review the conducting of ourselves and put a mark.
Mr. Sharma said that he would also
be doing the evaluation and might be emailing some of us for consultation on
the type of mark we gave ourselves if it was not close to this grade. Luckily,
I was not one of those persons. Not sure if it was a joke or true statement but
then I’m not sure of anyone exhibited that instance. The evaluation was
submitted (on ****) by email.
I did not agree with the form
given to us in the course outline. I decided to recreate the work and had it
submitted. There were two versions of the form done.
This course did not have a final
written exam. It was a 100% practical coursework class. This kind of assignment
just like the choral assignment I was very worried about and did not want to
do. Thankfully again, COVID-19 came and forced the assessment to be forced to
change.
Initially, we would have been
asked to select a full band piece. To the late parts of the semester some of us
in the class went to the office and go scores from a big box of music that Mr.
Sharma allowed us to make copies of. I had registered to do “A Whole New World”
on his list after gaining approval. When the weekend came, I went to Musescore
and rewrote the entire thing because it did not look very professional. These
pieces were works done by previous students.
A Zoom meeting was held for the
class for the modification of this final project. We were given an email first
with YouTube recording of steelband performances to listen to first. We were
asked to select the piece that we were interested in conducting and there would
one separate class for those. I had chosen “Song of Lopinot” by Dr. Jit
Samaroo. We were asked several practice questions on the piece and then
dismissed. We were told to create a recording and have it submitted for marking
along with the same evaluation done as in the mid-term assessment.
The deadline was removed for
submissions at any time to work on thesis later onward. There was also going to
be a viva voce section of this assignment like in the Choral modified
assignment. This was held on (****) zoom for the week it was done. There
were going to be a few students on a particular day having their conducting
recording being reviewed by Mr. Sharma and then we were asked several questions
on the pieces and from the score. I recall being in Curepe and house two’s
living-room doing this part of the exam. Luckily, it was alright. I still
wished I had better ways of answering them.
In my time of “Music Literatures
of the Steelpan” course I was happy to have made a copy of the score when I had
to do the book report assignments. Those were the two time I visited the
Festival Library down by the ‘Big UWI’ where the Republic Bank now stands. I
was able to study it with the recording on YouTube for the conducting exercise.
Link(s):
“A Whole New World” – Full Score. ** [Permission was not granted.]
“Song of Lopinot” – Conducting Recording.**
x
I was glad that the course worked
out well in my favour along with the COVID. Since day one I had thoughts on
working on a new version of the curse textbook but I thought of Musescore ad
did not find it necessary. I found the book good enough to stand on its own.
Who knows, maybe one day I will just decide to go and make a version of my own
since I like to make over these kinds of books.
Actual
Date of Online Entry: (Tuesday 28th June 2022)
Dear Diary,
It was somehow mandatory to do this course. A victim again for another semester and now apparently for the whole academic year. The course immediately began on the prescribed time and I sat there in class feeling like there was nothing new but the same class as the last semester.
In other words, a similar course with a different name. I did enjoy the score analysis part of it. In terms of assignments, there were too many as the previous vocal class and some conducting to do in the middle. Again, I was thankful for the the COVID-19 being set upon us for the recess I was hoping for (but knew was not possible before the time).
This assignment was difficult to
do. I wished I had more experience in vocal works to be able to do this. I had
five examples done but they were melodies. I had to do them over. Four out of five new examples were
done over last-minute in the Festival Library as I waited for my scheduled time
to see Mr. Murray. The class members were asked to schedule their time on a
form stuck on the outer side of his office door.
That meeting determined which
Warm-up would be used for the conducting assessment. There was also a conducting
and singing aspect of the meeting. I was asked to sing the selected warm-up to
make sure I knew it. Then I was asked to conducted. I was tested on mistakes
and then asked to comment on his singing.
Link(s):
Warm-ups Mistake. ** [For Request by Email.]
ASSIGNMENT #2:
WARM-UPS CONDUCTING.
*Tuesday 10th March
2020 *
This was my birthday. It was not so hurtful as the others, thank God. I also had
the warm-up conducting where I had to teach the class the selected warm-up and
then conduct them. This exercise was recorded in class but the recording was corrupt and could not play. The copy by email gave the same issue. There
were several times that Mr. Murray stopped me in the middle of the exam to the
point where I got angry. I wanted to just give up on it or demand a zero and walk out the door.
Mr. Murray was planning for us to
have a class field trip to go down to Queen’s Hall for a viewing of vocal music
at the Music Festival being hosted there. It was the Wednesday after the conducting
exercise but because of Steel Orchestral Mid-Term assessment it was postponed
to the Friday.
However, during my thesis meeting
with Mr. Sharma, we got the news that there was the first recorded case of
COVID-19 in the country. Mr. Murray sent out an email saying that the field
trip was cancelled because of that. This took conversation but lightly in our
chat group.
A lot of others were backing out
and took the weekend to themselves and some others were still going. I honestly
didn’t bother to care about COVID-19 at the time. Going out and experiencing
something like this was never part of my childhood/schooling life so I dressed
up and went down to Queen’s Hall with Brandon. We met three students
from class who came in some minutes after us. Unfortunately, the programs were sold out by the time we got into the sitting area.
There were a few different competitions
taking place one after the next. The singing competitions for the night took place first. A
lot of us in the audience were confused most of the times when the lady made
errors in pronunciations of the pieces. Few times we saw Andrew from
class accompanying some of the contestants.
There was a steelpan composition section
to be judged but Brandon was ready to leave. We left the Hall and got back up
to Curepe. I still have some of the points in my scrap book. Mr. Murray told us
to walk with a book to make notes when the judges made comments on some of the
performances:
XXX
Some of the groups were also
called back onto the stage to give feedback. Carl was the conductor for a vocal
group and his one was also called down. Not many persons were there in the Hall
at that time of the night. But I did have a great time. The COVID-19 masks were
not in effect at this time. It felt like I had gotten to go out for my birthday in a way. Discussions on me making a course textbook was also opened up while we waited in the sitting area.
ASSIGNMENT #3: REPERTOIRE
& SCORE ANALYSIS.
* Monday 16th March 2020
*
We were asked to select twenty vocal
pieces of music and analysis them. It took me a while to finally sit down and
begin on the said date above. Since there were twenty of them, I decided to analyse
four pieces for the weeks and by Saturday the assignment would have been ready.
The form for this assignment was
taken as an arrangement of my newspaper forms from the “A Season of Steelpan”
research books. I thought that the watermark at the back was a lot of
distraction from the content just looking back at it. I had tried my best to
find YouTube recordings that matched the literature in the score and have it
inserted into the document. When the assignment was returned (***) there were
only a few comments that made as notes within the file.
This assignment may have been
very unbelievable to do in real. We were expected to learn a selected vocal
piece of our choice and then be prepared to conduct it. Since the COVID-19
lockdown prevented the assessment to go the way it should have been, we were asked
to have a class meeting on Zoom to discuss the assignment.
This assignment was modified to
be a viva voce exercise where the piece would have been emailed for approval as
usual but then questions would have been asked on certain points of the music. This
exam was conducted on Tuesday 5 of May 2020 as a one of one via Zoom. Each
person had their own time scheduled. The questions were alright. Two of them
were very difficult for me.
The date printed above was the
submission date via email. We had to plan an entire choral concert including
putting music together, selecting venues, preparing a budget, etc.
I decided to prepare five
documents that separated each of the required portions of work. I thought that
might have made the grading aspect easier for Mr. Murray. One document was completed
per day. The Saturday was review of all prepared documents of the assignment
and then submission late that night. For the purpose of easy documentation, attachments 1 to 4 was saved as one file below. The fifth attachment goes separately.
I decided to call the event “A Night
of Musical Delight.” I had to think of my friend Anton in order to gather a lot
of inspiration and assistance to complete this assignment. We were told that
the concert had to be “concert programme of pieces – no less than one hour. 40
minutes of the programme must be strictly choral music.” I decided to work
on the pieces one time.
Actual Date of Online Entry: (Friday 1st July 2022)
[WRITTEN AS REPORT]
Dear Diary,
`The writing below is an account of the Indian Classical Ensemble in the last of its face-to-face classes and the transition into the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. In terms of assessments, several video recordings would have had to be made and provided to lecturers for grading.
This also resulted in the canceling of the end of the academic year's "Music of the diaspora" concert done by music students of DCFA. Since the concert was discontinued there will be no separate post. All recordings provided for grading will be attached with each entry by section.
RAAG BHAIRAVI.
* Monday 20th January 2020 *
The first piece for the semester was a classical composition using Raag Bhairavi. At first, seemed as if it would have been extremely difficult for me because the selection of pitches for the raaga used all four flats.
The good thing was that Sa was set as C. So, from my Indian Classical Music CLASS with Mr. Maharaj last semester, I saw that the raga's scale was like Ab Major and had the tonic as C.
This composition took a very long time to complete. There were some holidays and canceled classes in between that had kept us back on having all that was given in the score. Overall, it was a piece that was good enough to challenge me.
One time after a long time of no classes, we started with that song and everyone did not know the song. Not sure if they did not practice but I was able to finish the entire thing. I'm not sure how the other students made out with the music they had to record and submit to sir. I knew I was able to complete the entire thing.
We started this piece in class because of of the members did a cover on it. It was also the last piece given to us before the COVID-19 lockdown began. The version of the transcription that I did was not Mr. Maharaj's version that he would have written on the whiteboard in class. I took the YouTube recording and wrote out the entire song. That was submitted to sir for marking.
The day before was a night class via Zoom. Mr. Maharaj had sent us recordings of a new Raag Bhairavi piece to learn. It was very easy but the score had to remain as a guide because there was a portion of the song where resting was not specified.
On Monday 13th April 2020 the next class came. We had to take turns playing pieces of other songs we had to do for the semester. And I got to play out the entire Raag Bhairavi piece that was scored out and emailed to everyone. I couldn't recall what the Indian word 'Dhun' means. After all this time, I wondered what would have been the rest o the music. We were only given a verse and chorus.
Actual
Date of Online Entry: (Monday 27th June 2022)
Dear Diary,
The writing below is a profile and recording of the events and coursework done in the Department of Festival and Creative Arts (DCFA) Music Degree Course, Music Education 2. Mr. Sharma was the lecturer again for the course and it was a continuation of Music Education 1 from the previous semester.
Several works in this course were more PowerPoint lectures done by the students and document-making assignments that were to be submitted by email. There were no works of DAPHA Projects done for this course.
The first class began with a light joke about the final written examination of Music Education 1 and how everyone failed it. The class began shortly afterward.
This assignment asked us to write on teaching methods by Dalcroze, Orff, Kodaly, and Suzuki Talent Education. Two questions were also required to be answered:
What aspect(s) of each approach
do you think you can use in your own teaching style and why?
Compose a concluding paragraph stating
specifically what you would use in your own teaching practice (Include at least one aspect for each method).
I did one paragraph on each different method and included a response to the questions above. I could not believe how long it took me to complete this exercise. The assignment was sent in my email and the results came back within two weeks.
Link(s):
Reflection Paper.** [Not Available.]
ASSIGNMENT #2: PERSONAL TEACHING PHILOSOPHY.
* Monday 16th March 2020 *
**email
This assignment was two pages in length. It was not so difficult as the first. However, it made me question myself as a teacher and I questioned which of the several methods studied in class and those from the previous course would best suit me.
Link(s):
Teaching Philosophy.** [Not Available.]
ASSIGNMENT
#3: CURRICULUM DESIGN.
* Monday 23rd March 2020 *
**email
I was asked to “design a
three-week unit of lessons” for any secondary class. I must admit I was very panicked
about doing an assignment like this because I had no idea what to do. I also
did not have an idea what I could design to teach in three weeks. Only coming
down to the final few days I was able to sit down comfortably in my gallery at home
and plan out what I wanted to teach.
**image of the plan
for the assignment.
I decided I would have my
curriculum assignment designed for a Form 4 class that would sign up for Music CXC.
It was an attempt to see how best I would have introduced the younger version of
Daryl to steelpan arranging.
Although the assignment was to be
a Form Four class as mentioned in the submitted assignment, my mind was
planning it out for a Form 3 class. It was my wish that there would have been
some form of steelpan education in music before music was ‘dumped’ overall upon
moving into Form 4.
One challenge given to us was
that we had to utilize several learning theories in the lessons. In addition, to
have work where the students were working together. This brought the idea for
steelpan arranging where the members of the class would be placed into groups.
They would be required to create a short melody on their own, learn how to
create a harmony for their melody, and apply rhythmic accompaniment for the
rest of the steel band. Six learning outcomes would have had to be presented as
part of the students’ experience in the project.
The rest of the project would
involve the students in using computer notation to put the arrangement together
and consult with their teacher on their progress. Towards the end, a written
portfolio would be submitted for a separate grading that would include a copy of
the score, journal entries, and other materials used throughout the three
lessons. The second part of grading would then focus on the group performance
based on the group’s creation.
Upon submission of this entire
assignment (on the printed date above), I also included a PowerPoint that would
have been used in all three lessons. This was not mandatory but I still did it
to illustrate the various topics that would have been discussed during class ‘plenaries’
to teach the students.
The plan was very helpful. The
next being challenge was providing a way to grade everything with the rubric.
Just looking at that long letter-sized page was super intimidating to me.
I will agree in saying that this assignment
was a last-minute done project with the amount of time taken to figure out what
I wanted to do and then being able to come up with a plan. Once the plan was made
for the lessons, I made a strategy in completing the entire assignment within
six days. It was workable and effective. The assignment was then ready for
submission by email.
The class was expected to get
permission from a school or whomever to observe the class for three lessons and
write a report on the conducting of the class lesson by the teacher and answer
some questions on the students by an understanding of the lesson, working
environment, any group working, etc. I was also asked as part of the
observation to make recommendations and other suggestions that may have been
better for the lesson.
This was an assignment that I did
not find much comfort in doing because it seemed unusual how they would ask us
to go out into a school for an assignment like this. In many ways, I thank the
conditions of COVID-19 which caused the assignment to be amended for better
production.
We were emailed a series of YouTube
links to study the class lesson as if we were there and write a report on them.
There were three observations required so I did one a day with a fresh mind to focus
on everything. Because of the lockdown, the deadline was pushed back. It would
be unknown but the submission date would be the date printed on the email
message.
The course outline stated: “A
teaching portfolio is a collection of materials compiled by a teacher to
represent aspects of a teacher’s own practice. It is a vehicle for
self-evaluation, as it allows the teacher to reflect on his or her philosophy
and practice, to assess strengths and weaknesses, and highlight growth points
and accomplishments.” This to me sounded a little like my music journal. At that
time, my music journal was 14 printed volumes and 16 batches of unbound paper.
When I heard that the deadline
was moved to a further date too like assignment 4 because of the COVID-19 lockdown,
I got to work immediately. Everything was opened in the house and set down all
over the living room for photographs. All textbooks for UWI courses,
assignments, and other works I had done were ready to be written in this
assignment document. It was not difficult to do at all because I had written about
everything in my music journal. Other parts were required to be expanded for
the assignment.
Actual Date of Online Entry: (Monday 27th June 2022)
Dear Diary,
The last semester of year three begins. No personal timetable was made. I decided to use the DCFA's Music Class Schedule again. The mandatory courses for this semester were (1) Music Education, (2) Choral Techniques, (3) Steel Orchestral Techniques, (4) Performance Music SIX, and (5) Caribbean Studies Project/Thesis.
The thesis is a 'year-long' course but I have decided to a have discussion on it this semester was the final submission for marking and the conclusion of the course.
This semester also brought the COVID-19 pandemic's lockdown on Sunday 15th March 2020. Everyone was indoors and now forced to rely on technology for the continuation of classes.
In terms of music practicals, I continued with the regular individual steelpan class as my primary instrument with Mr. Sharma (scores below). I decided to do it for another semester with Mr. Maharaj but the piano at home had to substitute because of COVID lockdown. The Indian Classical Ensemble was continued and its music will have its own profile for this semester.
