NAME:
Brina Faciane
SCHOOLS:
Salmen High, Pearl River High
CLASS:
Talented Music
School phone:
Pearl River 863.2591 Salmen 643.7359
Brina Bourliea Faciane holds degrees from Arizona State University (MM,
saxophone performance pedagogy) and Louisiana State University (BM, saxophone
performance with Dr. Griffin Campbell). She is a professional member of the
North American Saxophone Alliance, Music Educators National Conference, and
the Louisiana Music Educators Association. Performing and teaching has
brought her all over United States, Canada, Italy, and Cyprus. Since settling
in Louisiana she teaches privately and in the St. Tammany Parish Talented
Arts Program. Students from her private studio consistently earn top spots in
the LMEA All-State Honor Bands and Jazz Ensembles.
Listen! Listen! Listen! Music, the universal language.
Why Teach Music? - Aurthor Unkown
Music is a science
It is exact, specific; and it demands exact acoustics. A conductor's full
score is a chart, a graph which indicates frequencies, intensities, volume
changes, melody and harmony all at once and with the most exact control of
time.
Music is mathematical
It is rhythmically based on the subdivisions of time into fractions which
must be done instantaneously, not worked out on paper.
Music is a foreign language
Most of the terms are in Italian, German, or French; and the notation is
certainly not English--but a highly developed kind of shorthand that uses
symbols to represent ideas. The semantics of music is the most complete and
universal language.
Music is history
Music usually reflects the environments and times of its creation, often
even
the country and or racial feeling.
Music is a physical education
It requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lips, cheek, and
facial muscles, in addition to extraordinary control of the diaphragmatic,
back, stomach and chest muscles, which respond instantly to the sound the
ear
hears and the mind interprets.
Music is all these things, but most
of all music is art
It allows a human being to take all these dry technically boring (but
difficult) techniques and use them to create emotion. That is one thing that
science cannot duplicate: humanism, feeling, emotion, call it what you will.
That is Why We Teach Music!
Not because we expect you to major in music
Not because we expect you to play or sing all your life
Not so you can relax
Not so you can have fun
Not Because we expect you to major in music
BUT--so you will be human
So you will recognize beauty
So you will be sensitive
So you will be closer to an infinite beyond this world
So you will have something to cling to
So you will have more love, more compassion, more gentleness, more good--in
short, more life.
Of what value will it be to make a prosperous living unless we know how to
live?
That is Why We Teach Music!
~Mrs. Brina