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Congratulations to State Champions: EDINA TEAM 1
Minnesota Music Listening Contest
Celebrating its 21st year, The Minnesota Music Listening Contest
(MLC) is an independent not-for-profit competition providing an ideal
opportunity to enrich students' experiences with classical, ethnic,
and popular music in a fun and competitive environment. 
In this statewide contest, students develop skills in active listening and critical analysis by learning to identify composers, cultures, periods and styles.
Teachers or coaches recruit three students to form a team. The teams receive a study guide and repertoire compact discs that contain all the musical selections they will need to compete effectively. All teams participate in regional competitions and first- and second-place teams advance to state competition.
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State Champions: Edina Team 1 Friday, February 1, 2008
20 Teams participated in the State Competition of the 20th anniversary of the Minnesota High School Music Listening Contest. After 5 competitive state rounds, Edina's Team 1 (Regional Metro AA-II champions) edged out HEY Sartell (Regional homeschool champions) in two rounds of close College Bowl competition. Northfield Team 1 (Regional South AA Champions) beat Montevideo Team 1 (West A Champions) in a tiebreaker round for 3rd place.
Explanation of Scoring:
In State competition, just as in regionals, there are 5 rounds worth 20 points each. In the interest of producing a competitive contest and narrowing the top finishing teams, questions in each round are proportionally designed with a level of difficulty ranging from 1 (very easy - what everyone must know) to 3 (medium - what everyone should know) to 5 (extremely difficult - what very few people are likely to know). In other words each round contains 4 questions from each level of difficulty.
Difficulty levels:
1 Very Easy = 4/20 = 20%
2 Easy = 8/20 = 40%
3 Medium = 12/20 = 60%
4 Difficult = 16/20 = 80%
5 Extremely Difficult = 20 / 20 = 100%
The average overall score for all 20 teams at State was an impressive 77.20 out of 100 possible points. This means that most teams answered correctly the questions in the 1 through 4 difficulty levels. Any score over 60% is a good indication that the students are WELL prepared for College study.
Broken down by each round:
Round 1 - 18.30 Average / 9 perfect scores (Edina / HEY / Montevideo / St. Cloud Tech / Pine City / Duluth Denfield / Stillwater / Buffalo / Erin Wheaton Studio)
Round 2 - 15.60 Average / 1 perfect score (Edina)
Round 3 - 17.60 Average / 2 perfect scores (Montevideo / Pine Island)
Round 4 - 14.35 Average / Highest score 19 (Edina)
Round 5 - 11.35 Average / Highest score 18 (HEY / Southwest)
Scores for the college bowl competition each question is worth 10 points but a missed answer results in a loss of 5 points (but no team can fall below zero (0).
Round 1
Edina - 45
HEY 25
Round 2
Edina - 70
HEY - 65
FINAL
Edina - 115
HEY - 90
Only 25 points separated the two teams (i.e. 2 1/2 questions) making this yet another nailbiting competition.
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All Students who participated in the Minnesota High School Music Listening Contest should be very proud of their own accomplishments. The Regional and State Competitions represent only a small portion of the mission of MLC. No matter how low a score may have been in the competition, the students still demonstrated that they learned something.
Regional Winners Announced Friday, January 18, 2008
There were 75 Schools and 202 teams (i.e. 606 students) registered for this years competition. Below are the results of 1st and 2nd place winners from each region. Each School is allowed to send only one team therefore the MLC scoring system takes the top score from each school and pits that against the other schools in the region. The average score among the top finishing teams is 83 points out of 100.
2007-2008 Regional Music Listening Results (Click on link for team
photo)
Metro AA – I – hosted at McNally Smith College of Music
Stillwater
(team 2) score = 89
St.
Paul Harding (team 3) score = 85
Average score of ALL teams at Region = 54
Metro AA – II – hosted at Tedd Mann Auditorium – U
of M
Edina (team 1) score = 90
Minneapolis Southwest (team 5) score = 80
North AA – hosted at Brainerd
St. Cloud Tech (team 3) score = 77
Duluth Denfeld (team 1) score = 76
South AA – hosted at Northfield
Northfield (team 1) score = 89
Eden Prairie (team 2) score = 80
West AA – hosted at Buffalo
Champlin Park (team 1) score = 79
Buffalo (team 2) score = 77
Central A – hosted at Buffalo
St. Thomas Academy (team 1) score = 88
Belle Plaine (team 1) score = 75
North A– hosted at Grand Rapids
Virginia (team 1) score = 81
Pine City (team 1) score = 80
South A – hosted at Pine Island
Pine Island (team 1) score = 89
Byron (team 1) score = 88
West A – hosted at Redwood Valley
Montevideo (team 1) score = 89
Maple River (team 1) score = 88
Homeschools - trophies will be sent out tomorrow
HEY (Sartell) score = 92
Erin Wheaton Piano Studio - Mpls (team 2) score = 69
Gary will be sending winner's packets with specific instructions for
the state contest very soon including directions to the site and parking
information to each of the above teams.
State Contest - Friday, February 1, 2008 at Augsburg College, Minneapolis. 11:30 am registration begins.
Congratulations to these 20 as well as all of the teams who participated
from the MLC Board of Directors.
Below is a list of all of the participating schools in this years competition.
METRO AA-I - [29 teams] Testing Site: McNAlly-Smith College of Music
Region Coordinator: Becky Weis
Bloomington Jefferson - 1 team
Minnehaha Academy - 3 teams
Prior Lake - 2 teams
St. Paul Central HS - 8 teams
St. Paul Harding HS - 10 teams
Stillwater High School - 4 teams
Visitation - 1 team
METRO AA-II - [30 teams] Testing Site: Ted Mann Concert Hall UofM
Region Coordinator: Mike Walsh
Anoka 1
Columbia Heights 1
Edina HS 7
Hopkins 2
Irondale H.S. 1
Roseville Area HS 7
Southwest High School (Mpls) 10
{Non-Traditional Team also meeting at UofM}
Cherry Tree Music (Mpls) - 1 team
NORTH AA - [19 teams] Testing Site: Brainerd High School
Region Coordinator: Grant Wilcox
Brainerd High School - 1 team
Denfeld H.S. - 2 teams
Hutchinson - 2 teams
Little Falls - 1 team
Long Prairie-Grey Eagle - 1 team
Minnewaska Area - 2 teams
St. Cloud Tech - 7 teams
Zimmerman H.S. (Juhl) - 2 team
{Non-Traditional Team meeting at Brainerd H.S.}
River Heights Home School - 1 team
SOUTH AA - [13 teams] Testing Site: Northfield High School
Region Coordinator: Karen Madsen
Austin - 1 team
Eden Prairie - 2 teams
Mankato East High School - 3 teams
Montgomery-Lonsdale - 1 team
Northfield HS - 2 teams
Winona - 4 teams
WEST AA [29 Teams]- Testing Site: Buffalo High School
Region Coordinator: Peter Jacobson
Brooklyn Junior High - 3 teams
Buffalo HS - 5 teams
Champlin Park - 4 teams
Elk River (Beaudry) - 1 team
North Branch HS - 7 teams
North View Jr High - 2 teams
Osseo Junior High - 4 teams
Osseo Senior High - 2 teams
St. Francis - 1 teams
CENTRAL A [17 teams] - Testing Site: Buffalo High School
Region Coordinator: Peter Jacobson
Belle Plaine - 2 teams
Holy Family Catholic - 4 teams
St. Thomas Academy - 3 teams
Watertown-Mayer H.S. - 4 teams
{Non-Traditional Teams also meeting at Buffalo}
Church of St. Paul Homeschool Coop - 1 team
Buffalo HS Erin Wheaton Piano Studio (Mpls) 2 - teams
Grantier / Otto Music Studios 1 - team
NORTH A - [18 Teams] Testing Site: Grand Rapids
Region Coordinator: Bill Alexander
Hawley 0
Hill City School - 1 team
Kelley High School (Silver Bay) - 2 teams
Marshall School - 2 teams
Mesabi East HS - 2 teams
Moose Lake - 2 teams
Onamia High School - 2 teams
Pine City - 1 team
Two Harbors - 2 teams
Virginia - 3 teams
{Non-Traditional Team meeting at Grand Rapids}
Pioneer Homeschool - 1 team
SOUTH A - [25 teams] Testing Site: Pine Island High School
Region Coordinators: Joe Mish & Barbara Hoppe
Austin Pacelli - 1 team
Blooming Prairie - 2 teams
Byron - 5 teams
Christ's Household of Faith - 4 teams
Cotter (Winona) - 1 team
Houston High School - 4 teams
Lanesboro - 1 team
Lourdes, Rochester - 2 teams
Pine Island - 4 teams
Zumbrota-Mazeppa - 1 team
WEST A [19 teams] Testing Site: Redwood Valley High School
Region Coordinator: Kristofer Olsen
Blue Earth High School - 2 teams
Dawson-Boyd - 3 teams
Jackson County Central - 3 teams
Maple River H.S. - 1 team
Montevideo High School - 3 teams
Pipestone Area - 4 teams
Redwood Valley - 2 teams
St. James - 1 team
2007 Champions - St. Cloud Tech High School
February 3, 2007
Heated College Bowl Round earns St. Cloud 6th Win
Augsburg College Minneapolis, MN - For the 6th time in their school's history, St. Cloud Tech High School earned the Championship Title for the Music Listening Contest narrowly defeating a fiercely competitive and well-prepared Edina High School team who had to settle for second place for the second year in a row. Last years Championship team, Stillwater High School finished third. Minnesota Public Radio's Steve Staruch emceed the days events and competition which began with a luncheon for the top 18 teams from across the state. William Schrikel, Music Director of the St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra, The Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra as well as Double Bassist and Associate conductor of the Minneosota Orchestra provided the keynote address.
The difficult task of judging the competition fell to Dr. Matthew Bribitzer-Stull, professor of Music Theory at the University of Minnesota; Mindy Ratner, Minnesota Public Radio; and Christian McGuire, MLC Musicologist and Instructor of Music History at the McNally-Smith College of Music. "With all of the teams so well prepared, the final state competition scores are so close that virtually any team has a chance to become the winner." said McGuire. In fact last years competition was so close that 5 teams vied for a college bowl berth via the sudden death mystery round tiebreaker with Edina winning out to meet Stillwater in the 2006 college bowl championship. Stillwater won that year by the margin of 1 question.
"The important thing to remember is that all of the students who compete at all levels of the tournament should be admired and congratulated for their efforts. As judges, we know they have learned more than the results of the contest demonstrate. The active learning strategies they have developed in preparation will surely have a positive impact upon the future success in life both within and outside the field of music."
New Features
February, 2nd 2007
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State Qualifying Teams for 2006-07
January 24, 2007
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Team Count
January 5, 2007
72 Schools and 203 teams were registered for 2006-07!!! Over 600 students are involved across Minnesota!
