: CMTA information: our meetings are planned for teachers, by teachers
to enhance the music education of all our students.
This website is home for the Columbia Music Teachers Association which is part of a three fold organization:
local, state and national.
Our state organization is the South Carolina Music Teachers Association (SCMTA). The state conference is November 2019.
Our national organization is the Music Teachers National Assocication ( mtna.org ). This national conference is to be held in Chicago March 2020.
CMTA monthly presentations feature professional music educators, specialists and performing artist; following our presentation is a brief business /planning meeting for upcoming performance opportunities. Our music programs, student festivals and auditions offer music events for all level of students in your teaching studio. Please check out our Calendar of Events and Program Calendar for details.
This organization is open to all independent and collegiate music teachers who are professionally engaged in any field of music education, whether teaching at a private studio, school program or music business.
For more information visit the MTNA website
local, state and national.
Our state organization is the South Carolina Music Teachers Association (SCMTA). The state conference is November 2019.
Our national organization is the Music Teachers National Assocication ( mtna.org ). This national conference is to be held in Chicago March 2020.
CMTA monthly presentations feature professional music educators, specialists and performing artist; following our presentation is a brief business /planning meeting for upcoming performance opportunities. Our music programs, student festivals and auditions offer music events for all level of students in your teaching studio. Please check out our Calendar of Events and Program Calendar for details.
This organization is open to all independent and collegiate music teachers who are professionally engaged in any field of music education, whether teaching at a private studio, school program or music business.
For more information visit the MTNA website
Columbia MTA Members Publications-
Aletha Jones Jacobs
Rockin' Around the Keys". A beginning improvisation book for intermediate students, it is basically rock-oriented style tunes, written in all major keys with an optional improv' section in the middle of each tune. The pieces are completely diatonic and a fun way to have students playing with various key signatures so it serves as a scale and chord book supplement.
Available at Rice Music House for $20 and on the web
Available at Rice Music House for $20 and on the web
Dr. Scott Price
Piano Pedagogy Forum is an on-line piano pedagogy journal created by Dr. Price, editor-in-chief. Piano Pedagogy Forum received the 2008 MTNA Frances Clark Keyboard Pedagogy Award. keyboardpedagogy.org/pianopedagogyforum
Dr. Cherisse Miller:
"Making Music with a Hearing Loss: Strategies and Stories: A collaborative effort by two audiologists who are experts on music and hearing loss, it includes stories by adult musicians with hearing loss. It covers the interplay between music, speech and hearing devices and discusses hearing conservation for musicians.
It is available through Cherisse and on www.amazon.com for $14.95.
All proceeds from book sales go to the Adult Association of Musicians with Hearing Loss.
It is available through Cherisse and on www.amazon.com for $14.95.
All proceeds from book sales go to the Adult Association of Musicians with Hearing Loss.
