Texas Music Educators Association

Texas Music Educators Association


Abbreviation	TMEA
Formation	1920
Type	Volunteer; NPO
Legal status	Association
Purpose	Educational and Fine Arts
Headquarters	7900 Centre Park Dr. Austin, TX 78754 ^[1]
Region served	Texas Jurisdiction
Official language	English
President	Jesse Cannon II^[2]
Affiliations	University Interscholastic League Association of Texas Small School Bands
Website	tmea.org
Remarks	(888) 318-8632

The Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA) is an organization of over 12,000 Texas school music educators. Its stated goals are to provide professional growth opportunities, to encourage interaction among music education professionals, to foster public support for music in schools, to offer quality musical experiences for students, to cultivate universal appreciation and lifetime involvement in music, and to develop and maintain productive working relationships with other professional organizations.^[3]

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Good morning and welcome to our Second General Session of our 2013 convention. After the performance of the All-State Group there will be a couple of minutes as we strike the stage and get ready for our meeting. Will you please stand while TMEA President John Gillian conducts the 2013 combined All-State Mixed Choir, Symphonic Band, and Symphony Orchestra in the National Anthem, and then be seated for a performance of Battle Hymn of the Republic? (Applause) "The Star-Spangled Banner" Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? (Applause) (Prepare for "Battle Hymn of the Republic") "Battle Hymn of the Republic" (Drums) (Trumpets added) Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword His truth is marching on. (Gloria) Glory, glory, hallelujah (Gloria) Glory, glory, hallelujah (Gloria, Gloria) Glory, glory, hallelujah (Gloria) His truth is marching on! (Instrumental break) (Truth is marching...) I've seen Him in the watchfires of a hundred circling camps (Truth is marching...) They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps (Truth is marching...) I can read His righteous sentence in the dim and flaring lamps (Truth is marching...) His day is marching on. Glory, glory, hallelujah Glory, glory, hallelujah Glory, glory, hallelujah His truth is marching on! (Instrumental interlude) In the beauty of the lilies, Christ was born across the sea With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me As he died to make men holy, let us live to make men free While God is marching on. Glory, glory, hallelujah Glory, glory, hallelujah Glory, glory, hallelujah His truth is marching on! Glory, glory, hallelujah Glory, glory, hallelujah Glory, glory, hallelujah His truth is marching on! Amen! Amen!

History

TMEA was founded in 1920 by James E. King(1885-1947) and originally called the Texas Band Teachers Association.

Once an affiliate of MENC: The National Association for Music Education, TMEA was expelled as the state affiliate largely due to policy disputes over compulsory MENC membership in 1975. Essentially, at the time of federated status, TMEA members had the option to join TMEA without paying dues to MENC. MENC found this arrangement untenable and urged TMEA to revise its constitution to require all TMEA members to pay full MENC dues and affiliate with MENC. This question was repeatedly put before TMEA membership who rejected it in ballot after ballot. MENC officially expelled TMEA, what would have been and would remain today its largest affiliated organization, on June 30, 1975. TMEA assisted MENC in the creation of the "Texas Music Educators Conference," to be a Texas MENC affiliate. Prior to the expulsion, over 1000 TMEA members voluntarily maintained MENC membership, however in its first report to MENC, the newly formed TMEC claimed only 99 members statewide.^[4]

Issues regarding the dominance of TMEA by the state's larger schools (those in UIL Classes AAAA and AAAAA) led to the 1991 formation of the Association of Texas Small School Bands (ATSSB), membership in which is limited to schools in UIL Classes A, AA, and AAA. However, TMEA and ATSSB (along with other organizations, such as the Texas Bandmasters Association, which also split from TMEA in the 1940s) work together to promote music education in Texas.

Functions

All-State

TMEA is responsible for auditions into and concerts of Texas's All-Region and All-State bands, orchestras and choirs. It aligns schools into the 33 regions which are used by the University Interscholastic League (UIL) and the Association of Texas Small School Bands (ATSSB) for their competitions.^[5]^[6] The audition music is announced at the yearly Texas Bandmasters Association (TBA) convention in San Antonio, usually in July.

Auditions are held at the region level during the fall of each year to determine All-City, All-District and All-Region groups. Most regions host a public concert of their All-Region bands, orchestras and choirs to provide a performance clinic for the selected musicians and to showcase the students' musicianship.

Top ranked musicians from each region advance to their respective All-Area auditions. The All-Area groups serve to reduce the number of participants considered for All-State and therefore do not have a performance component as do the All-Region groups.

A final audition is held among the top All-Area musicians to decide membership in the All-State groups. Student musicians selected for an All-State group are invited to attend the annual TMEA convention and participate in a performance clinic and concert. The All-State groups include the following:

List of Texas All-State Groups

6A Symphonic Band
6A Concert Band
5A Symphonic Band
Jazz Ensemble I
Jazz Ensemble II
Symphony Orchestra
Philharmonic Orchestra
Sinfonietta Orchestra (replaced the String Orchestra in 2018-19)
Large School Mixed Choir
Small School Mixed Choir
Treble Choir
Tenor/Bass Choir
TTCCDA Choir
TCCBDA Symphonic Band
TCCBDA Jazz Ensemble
ATSSB Symphonic Band
ATSSB Concert Band
ATSSB Jazz Ensemble ^[7]

Clinic/Convention

TMEA hosts an annual convention in San Antonio during the month of February. The convention's main attractions are workshops that qualify as continuing education credit for music teachers, an exhibition show for the music industry and concerts by many honor and invited groups. Concerts performed by the All-State groups provide a finale for the convention.

Southwestern Musician

Southwestern Musician is an official publication of TMEA. Content includes various articles on music education and information about TMEA events and operations. Nine issues are published during the school year.

References

^ "Contact TMEA". Contact TMEA. Texas Music Educators Association. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
^ https://www.tmea.org/about/executive-board/
^ About TMEA, About TMEA, TMEA Website, viewed 26 October 2010.
^ Biffle, George Leslie (1991) A history of the Texas Music Educators Association, 1959-1979. D.M.A. dissertation, Arizona State University. Retrieved September 13, 2008, from Dissertations & Theses: Full Text database. (Publication No. AAT 9124786).ProQuest.
^ Region Alignment, Region Alignment, TMEA Website, viewed 26 October 2010.
^ "ATSSB 5-Area Alignment 2016-18 (22 Regions)" (PDF). ATSSB_Area_Alignment_2016-18.pdf. Association of Texas Small School Bands. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
^ "TMEA/ATSSB Joint Agreement" (PDF). TMEA_ATSSB_Alignment_2015.pdf. Association of Texas Small Bands and Texas Music Educators Association. 13 February 2014. Retrieved 12 March 2016.

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