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MIDI / Music Technology Lab
Music Technology Coordinator
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Herbert
M. Midgley II Music Technology and Guitar
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HERBERT MICHAEL MIDGLEY II has been an active composer for the last eight years. He has composed numerous compositions during both his professional and collegiate career including one symphony, twelve original works for band and other large form compositions. Mr. Midgley has also written a great number of chamber works, including quartets and quintets for wind instruments, solo piano works, and solo works for many other instruments. He has also composed many works of electronic music for both tape and live performers.
His composition teachers include Californian composers Mr. Delbert Bump and Dr. Mac Cooks, and Dr. Dan Beaty, who served on the SFA Music Faculty. Mr. Midgley has earned three degrees from Stephen F. Austin State University: B.M., M.M. and M.Ed. Both of his music degrees are in music theory and composition. His other degree is in secondary education.
For more than eight years, Mr. Midgley has been working closely with M.I.D.I. technology, serving as a Graduate Assistant at SFA in the M.I.D.I. Lab, and also at Solano Community College in California. He is an expert on Macintosh computers and music software, and has tutored many students in the use of computer technology in music, including both music notation, sequencing and CAI software. Mr. Midgley has served as a music technology coordinator and instructor for younger children in the SFA Music Preparatory Division.
Mr. Midgley taught in the Texas public school system as an All-Level Music teacher. He was the first music teacher in Zavalla Texas. During his time there, Mr. Midgley put on many elementary music programs. He also now maintains a private guitar studio with the SFA Music Preparatory Division.
Mr. Midgley is currently composing, arranging music as well as playing classic guitar in his spare time from teaching.
Interests,
Activities & Plans
Mr. Midgley is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda, National Music Honorary Society
and Kappa Delta Pi, National Education
Honorary Society.
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