Method
Shalom Music provides the most unique music education program in D.C. area.
Our method is to apply the Bloom's Taxonomy into instrumental performance. Our students are confident because they are trained to perform anytime and anywhere without depending on sheet music.
What is Bloom's Taxonomy?
In 1956, Benjamin Bloom with collaborators Max Englehart, Edward Furst, Walter Hill, and David Krathwohl published a framework for categorizing educational goals: Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. Familiarly known as Bloom’s Taxonomy, this framework has been applied by generations of K-12 teachers and college instructors in their teaching.
Armstrong, P. (2010). Bloom’s Taxonomy. Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching. Retrieved [todaysdate] from https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/blooms-taxonomy/.
Bloom's Taxonomy in Music Ed
1. Knowledge
Remember and recognize the basic musical elements. (eg. solfège system, the length of notes, dynamics, meters and musical alphabets)
2. Comprehension
Understand, identify and explain the meaning of musical concepts as well as musical terms. (eg. finding a tonality by using the circle of fifths, understanding the chord progressions and distinguishing the timbre of instruments)
3. Application
Apply music concepts into the performing. (eg. singing or playing the instruments by sight-reading, doing accompaniment the solo instrument or voice, using ii-v-i while playing the instrument)
4. Analysis
Analyze(meaning "aware deeply") musical elements such as structure, tonal and rhythm patterns. (eg. analyzing sonata form, chord progressions, transposition, modulation and phrasing)
5. Evaluation
Evaluate personal performance or composition by conceptual critique. (eg. self-reflects, rating other's performance, correct certain technique, skills and methods, being able to teach others)
6. Creating & Performance
Create a song, performing pieces or improvise, build a variation. (eg. composition, improvisation and arrangement by using melody, rhythm, harmony, counterpoint, timbre, orchestration or any combination of these)