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

[Bruno Gola]

Very nice ! I love to read/listen this kind of story, about using Free
Software with success.

Musix is awesome. I'm using it right now :)!

Congratulations Marcos and teacher Marilyn Hagle. I hope we can
read/listen to more stories like this very soon.

Keep the good work.

Cheers,


On 1/24/07, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> Nice Story. Thanks for sharing it.
>
> On 1/24/07, 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!
> >
> > --
> > Marcos Guglielmetti
> > * Director del desarrollo de Musix GNU+Linux, 100% Software Libre
> > * CD Donwload: (http://www.musix.org.ar/en/)
> > * Videos, programas y otras cosas en: ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/
> > * Reporte de errores a:
> > https://www.musix.org.ar/wiki/index.php?title=Problemas-Bugs
> > *IRC: #musix channel on freenode
> > * http://autosus.wordpress.com/
> >
>


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