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About Me

 * My name is Joseph and I am currently a student at Old Dominion. I am studing Music Vocal Education and Music Composition.  I hope to teach at the collegiate level.  I love music and can't imaging my life without it, but at times I don't know why I choose to make music my life.
 * I have been involved in music since before I enter pre-school. I started to sing at church in the third grade.  I performed my first solo in fifth grade and start playing musical instruments.  And started to write music around this time too.  [I use the term music loosely here as there was little notation and my hand writing was horrid]  I began my formal vocal training in my junior year of high school.  During this year I wrote and my first complete musical score.  My senior year I wrote a jazz piece for the jazz amsemble at my high school.  Unfortunately there was not time to perform it before the year ended.
 * Although music comsumed my life and my thoughts, I applied and was excepted to ODU as a biochemistry major. Science has always fascinated me.  Before the end of the first semester, I knew that biochem. was not the science was not were I was ment to be.  I struggled with changing my major for the majority of the semester.  I remember and will always remember what made the decision for me.  When I asked my band teacher my senior why he made music his profession, he said that his high school teacher once asked him if he could ever imagine his life without music or ever imagine going through even a single day without playing a note.  My teacher, Mr. Noë, told me that his answer was and is no, he couldn't and can't imagine his life without music.  After he told me this he asked me if I could ever imagine my life without music.  I told me I didn't know.
 * When I decided to change my major this question weighed on my mind heavily. Finally i sat down and really tried to picture my life without music.  I could not do it.  Because of this I know that, in the words of Duke Ellington, "music is my mistress" (Ellington 1973).  My decision to become a teacher came later after I discovered teaching would allow me to help other people understand, appreciate, and hopefully share my passion, music.
 * Since then, I have written non-stop and grown more excited about the start of my teaching career. My only fear, so far, about becoming a teacher is my patience or my lacking of patience.  I hope that it will grow with my excitement over the next couple of years so that I will be able to be the type of teacher I've come to appreciate and admirer.
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 * When I decided to change my major this question weighed on my mind heavily. Finally i sat down and really tried to picture my life without music.  I could not do it.  Because of this I know that, in the words of Duke Ellington, "music is my mistress" (Ellington 1973).  My decision to become a teacher came later after I discovered teaching would allow me to help other people understand, appreciate, and hopefully share my passion, music.
 * Since then, I have written non-stop and grown more excited about the start of my teaching career. My only fear, so far, about becoming a teacher is my patience or my lacking of patience.  I hope that it will grow with my excitement over the next couple of years so that I will be able to be the type of teacher I've come to appreciate and admirer.
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 * Since then, I have written non-stop and grown more excited about the start of my teaching career. My only fear, so far, about becoming a teacher is my patience or my lacking of patience.  I hope that it will grow with my excitement over the next couple of years so that I will be able to be the type of teacher I've come to appreciate and admirer.
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!References
 * Ellington, E. K. (1973). Music is My Mistress. Garden City, New York: Da Capo Press
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