[Musix-users] Musix is being used at Joe Wilson Intermediate School in Cedar Hill, Texas, USA

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El Jue 25 Ene 2007 01:49, Michael escribió:
> WONDERFUL.... Musix is on it's way   !!!!!!  Yeah TEAM  !!!!!!!

hehehehe ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) 

> Marcos Guglielmetti <marcospcmusica at gmail.com> wrote:
> Article: http://www.musix.org.ar/wordpress/?p=53
>
> Musix is being used at Joe Wilson Intermediate School in Cedar Hill, Texas,
> USA
>
> The school teacher Marilyn Hagle (marilyn.hagle [ … ] chisd.com) is using
> Musix in her lessons of music at Joe Wilson Intermediate School in Cedar
> Hill, Texas, USA.
>
> “I am a 5th/6th grade general music teacher and use bootable Musix CDs in
> our computer lab with students once a week. It rocks!
>
> First the students work on the easy rhythm practice exercises in Solfege.
> Then we go to the Hydrogen Drum Machine program and the students write
> their own rhythm patterns.
>
> I have each class for only twelve weeks a year. This twelve weeks term we
> are going to try compose a melody and add percussion to it. Note Edit would
> be the easiest to use with this age group, but in the .5 version it
> doesn’t load the synthesizer consistantly (could be user error of course
> :) ). I am downloading your latest release right now, so maybe that will
> have a fix.”
>
> We are working to debug this problem, maybe related to Timidity.
>
> “It might interest you to know that the students are now working on
> composing percussion accompaniments in Hydrogen for the program. We will be
> singing our school song, “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” and playing a
> melody from Beethoven’s 9th Symphony on our recorders . . . all with
> Hydrogen accompaniments. :)”
>
> She have taught also in Minnesota and Chicago, her BA is in music and her
> MA in media communications, also she is certified to teach music and
> technology applications in Texas.
>
> Well, boys, another woman using GNU/Linux! But, “sadly”, she is married
> ;)
>
> Marilyn started using computers in the classroom in 1982, she moved to Free
> Software in 1998, and she thinks educators are crazy or lazy for not using
> GNU+Linux.
>
> Just a last note… Marilyn is exited about the new apps that were included
> into the last Musix’s version, 0.79 (we included them thinking about the
> needs of artistic schools and rock bands): “I was so excited to download
> your latest version and see it included Cinelerra and Blender!! Before I
> took this job, I taught high school computer animation using Blender
> (fabulous!). One of my educational goals has been to teach kids how to
> write their own songs and make them into music videos!!”
>
> Thanks Marilyn Hagle for using, teaching and spread Free Software!

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