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A Description of MSHSAA Music Festivals
Missouri State High School Activities Association
PURPOSE OF DISTRICT AND STATE FESTIVALS:
Evaluative state music events have several purposes, but there are two primary purposes that justify and cause them to be desirable.
They are: (1) to provide opportunities to demonstrate before the public the best knowledge, skills, and musical repertoire taught through a particular activity, and (2) to evaluate the best that is taught in a school system in comparison with accepted standard of excellence.
Unless these purposes are primary, district and state events cannot be completely justified. Many of our member schools that do not enter the district festival have music programs in their schools. No pressure or influence is used by Large the Board of Directors to encourage these schools to enter the district administration. It is the opinion of the Board of Directors that when
programs in these schools are sufficiently developed and there is a desire to evaluate them in comparison with other schools, these schools will enter the district and state festivals.
PURPOSE OF SIGHT READING:
The interscholastic evaluative music program, of which sight reading is an integral part, shall serve as a supplement to the secondary curricular music program. Aside from concert performance, sight reading provides additional criteria to evaluate and opportunities for students to exhibit an understanding of the basic fundamentals of music. The importance of teaching the fundamentals of music, the skills of accuracy in reading music, and overall musicality shall be reinforced by sight reading at the evaluative music festival.
PURPOSE OF GRADED MUSIC:
The prescribed, graded list of solo and small ensemble literature for the MSHSAA Evaluative Music Festival shall serve to aid Missouri music educators in finding and choosing quality literature, to expand and upgrade the literature in the Missouri Evaluative Music Festival, and to increase the musicianship and sense of the aesthetic of Missouri high school students. The list shall create the opportunity for assisting with future development of curriculum for solo and small ensembles and provide a basis for consistent and meaningful adjudication at the music festivals.
ETHICS:
The Missouri State High School Activities Association Evaluative Music Festivals are conducted to develop and maintain the highest possible performance standards among music students. The music festival system is designed to encourage not only exceptional musicianship, but also a respect for the arts and the discipline necessary to excel.
In order for this to occur, students, directors, and all participants and observers must continually maintain the highest standards of ethical conduct, integrity, and courtesy.
Directors must read and abide by the regulations. It is also the responsibility of the director to communicate thE information to the students and expect that they will abide by these rules as well.
A Description of SLSMEA / CSD
The St. Louis Suburban Music Educators Association is the professional organization for music educators for member schools of the Cooperating School District.
SLSMEA is affiliated with the Cooperating School District and MENC: The National Association for Music Education.
SLSMEA sponsors numerous festivals throughout the year which include;Large Ensemble Music Festival for Bands, Orchestra, and Choirs
Solo and Ensemble Music Festival for Band, Orchestra, and Choir
Honor Group Ensembles for Bands, Orchestras, and Choirs for high school, middle school, and elementary students.