WAYS of KNOWING - Stephen Melillo

WAYS of KNOWING

By Stephen Melillo

  • Release Date: 2013-03-21
  • Genre: Textbooks

Description

In the early 1980s, students from Spanish Harlem, Harlem, the Bronx and Queens took part in a Carnegie Foundation, New York Academy of Sciences and Ford Foundation-funded program entitled MIDI-Music-Mathematics-Science... WAYS of KNOWING.  (Midimast)

These students, with no prior musical training, learned how to compose a contemporary piece of music at a professional level. In the process, and indeed as the stipulated goal of the immersion, they acquired concepts in Mathematics and Science greatly exceeding the normal learning for their grade levels.  Principals were stunned at the quantum improvements in Mathematics and Science test-scoring in such a short time, and immediately initiated a New York City-wide training session where 275 Mathematics and Science teachers took part in the processes and concepts prevalent to Midimast.

Tests rendered in the NYC Area schools verified a significant improvement in mathematics and science scores, and only after weeks of immersion in the process. 

Noted scientists involved at inception included Seymour Papert , author of MINDSTORMS and Professor at M.I.T., as well as fellow professor Marvin Minsky, the “Father of Artificial Intelligence.” 

Fueled by great successes, Midimast eventually expanded into courses in which as many as 275 New York City Mathematics and Science Teachers learned how to utilize Music to better teach concepts pervasive in and inclusive to Music, Mathematics and Science. 

This Teacher-Based Curriculum Guide is exactly the kind of knowledge and broad scope our Music Teachers and all Teachers need to have in their toolbox, as they work with administrations and sometimes, colleagues, who are misinformed about the vastly potent usefulness and interconnectedness of Music and much more!
The concepts covered, the facts presented, and the actual case studies shared, uplift the role and importance of Music in every child’s life. The curriculum texts, whether implemented as devised or not serves to expand one’s knowledge base with specific regard to the intersection of Music, Mathematics and Science...  and more.

BIO

Into 2018, Stephen's Symphony IIII: Lightfall,  was nominated for the Pulitzer and Nemmers Prize in Music. Winner of three 2009 Telly & Ava Awards for his 2005 Visualized Concert, Kakehashi: THAT WE MIGHT LIVE, Stephen's concert-version was also nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Music. His 15 feature film scores include the Oscar-nominated 12:01PM and the horror thriller, The Unwilling, to be released on Sony VOD, both directed by Jonathan Heap. An ASCAP Concert Awards recipient each year since 1992, Stephen's more than 1170 works include 4 symphonies, several concerti and over 33-hours of Music for Ensembles of the 3rd Millennium™. The STORMWORKS Chapter 55 CD: Way of the Wanderer, will be recorded by Das Musikkorps der Bundeswehr in October.  With 28 CDs and 6 books on iTunes, and simply by word-of-mouth, Stephen's pioneering, self-publishing entity known as STORMWORKS has gone from 0 to many thousands of worldwide renderings since 1992.

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“Melillo is to wind music what Beethoven was to the symphony orchestra, and he follows a Beethovenesque design of increasing the musical tension almost to the breaking point, receding, and then reaching again. It is superlative musical craftsmanship and inspiring to hear.”  Marvin Sosna, Music Critic

“His S-MATRIX Symphony was fabulous, full of childlike wonderment as the composer intended and marvelous sounds.  And they worked to maximum effect — a brilliant, original use of orchestral resources for a sophisticated, sensational, beautiful and satisfying experience.”   Nancy R. Ping-Robbins, Music Critic

“...a new voice in the direction of music, his sound – a bridge between the serious and the immediately visceral.”  Maestro Gerhardt Zimmerman, Conductor
If you want to know what the human spirit really is, you must, Yes - Must come to the Z tonight to hear a phenomenal world premiere that will put tears in your eyes. Symphony No. IIII by Stephen Melillo is a very powerful work. I am not embarrassed to admit that when I saw the score for the first time, I was in tears. What a powerful and moving work. It was commissioned by the Canton Symphony Orchestra for the 25th anniversary of the ADA (American Disabilities Act).  Your soul will be opened."  Maestro Gerhardt Zimmerman, Conductor

 “...his ability to create a mood, find precisely the right touch of drama and create the needed effect was manifest... the sustained chords in the choir, the timpani’s roar, the harp’s glissandos.  Melillo used them all with a sense of absolute rightness and the result was fresh, joyful and exciting... each measure scored with an unerring ear for drama and emotion.”  John S. Sweeney, Music Critic

“He could become the Leonard Bernstein of this age... Everything he creates has many layers, ranging from synchronicity to the significance of numbers, from visceral emotions to the brotherhood of mankind.” John S. Sweeney, Music Critic

Scores include:

    The Unwilling
    Pluripotent
    DWEGONS 
    12:01 PM  (OSCAR Nomination, Best Live Action Short)
    PBS Teledrama: Actress Works (EMMY Nomination for PBS Teleplay)
    Retrograde
    Unsung Heroes (NYPD Documentary) 
    Aurora
    Crossing the Line
    Gypsy Girl
    Benefit of the Doubt
    Basque Legacy
    They Bite
    Shock-A-Rama
    Hollywood Showcase
    The Newlyweds
    Music for STAR SEARCH
    Music for WNEW Radio
    ABC Life Goes On
    ABC Sunday Night Movie
    ABC All My Children
    ABC General Hospital
    ABC Business World
    ABC America's Funniest Videos
    ABC American Music Awards
    ABC Doogie Howser, MD
    ABC Going to Extremes
    ABC Good Morning America
    ABC Home Improvement
    ABC Jack's Place
    ABC Loving
    ABC Matlock
    ABC Nightline
    ABC One Life to Live
    ABC Primetime Live
    ABC Sunday Night Movie
    ABC The Commish
    ABC This Week With David Brinkley
    ABC World News Now
    ABC World News Sunday
    ABC 20/20
    NBC The Fresh Prince
    NBC Special: Fairgame
    NBC Movie of the Week
    NBC Night Court
    Nickolodean  Adventures of Pete
    Mr. Ed's Corral
    Real Kids
    Parenting
    A Cold Night 
    Terrorvision
    A Horse of Her Own
    Unification
    Dark Reflection  
    Cable & Industrial Projects Including Music for Sega, Super-Nintendo & IBM   
    Commercial Soundtracks, including Music for the NY Nets, Yankees & Giants