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ABA Legislation
Proposal 2009-1
Alabama Bandmasters Music Performance Assessment Proposal
Logistics:
1. There will be 8 ABA MPA performance venues
2. The site and schedule will be the responsibility of each District Chairman.
3. The date of the ABA MPA will be chosen by the district chairman.
4. The dates available for the ABA MPA will range from the 3rd Monday of February to the last day of March.
5. Exceptions for performing out of district will be granted by the State ABA President. Considerations will include the
following: Distance / Time (2 hours travel time – change must improve your travel time 1 hour), Scheduling
difficulties, and emergencies/weather.
Standards of Adjudication:
1. District Chairman will be responsible for hiring three stage adjudicators and one sight reading adjudicator from the
ABA MPA Adjudicators List. The first year of the MPA (2010) the district chairman will submit 5 judges to the ABA
Board for approval to be added to the State Adjudicator List at the Summer Convention.
2. The adjudication rubric will remain as it is currently published in the ABA Handbook.
3. The ABA President will appoint a person/committee to develop an Adjudication program to certify MPA adjudicators to
start at the 2010 AMEA Clinic Conference and then at the 2010 ABA Summer Clinic. The certification program will
continue each year at the locations mentioned above. In 2011 there will be at least one certified adjudicator on each
MPA panel.
4. Each band will be required to Sight read at the ABA MPA. In 2010, the director may elect before the performance
whether or not to include the Sight reading rating in the overall MPA rating. In 2011, all bands will be required to Sight
read at MPA and the rating will be combined with the stage ratings for the overall rating of the band.
4. A band that earns Straight A’s from all stage adjudicators and the sight reading adjudicator will earn the rating of
Superior with Distinction.
Finances:
$1.00 per student per band
$100.00 School Fee - First Band
$50.00 School Fee - Each Additional Band(s)
Each band will be able to purchase Plaques / Trophies / Medals in the same manner they have done in the past at State
Contest.
Rationale:
At its inception in 1947, the ABA State Band Competition Festival provided an event hosted at a single site. Bands within a single
classification performed back-to-back. A single panel adjudicated all F-CC classification bands while a second single panel
adjudicated all B-AA bands.
Over the last 30 years, the complexity of school activities has changed, the complexity of society has changed, and State
Assessment has evolved in significant ways. One site has now evolved into as many as four sites. Multiple panels are employed.
Classifications are re-built each morning and again each afternoon during a performance day. The time period between District
Assessment and State Assessment has shortened from approximately six weeks to as little as two weeks.
Taken as a whole, the combination of changes implores this body to examine the possibility that a major change in the structure of
the two-tiered assessment is needed. The proposed Alabama Bandmasters Association Music Performance Assessment is aimed at
reducing travel costs, increasing the number of bands who participate, and providing support to directors to help raise the level of
musicianship within their programs.
Because so much of the ABA activity takes place at the district level, it seems logical for the assessment to be held at eight sites,
one within each district. The proposal takes into account the scheduling of the events, the selection of the adjudicators, the
inclusion of sight-reading, the retention of the assessment rubric, and the need for professional development in such areas as
instrumental pedagogy and the teaching of sight-reading.
44 February 2009
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