Texas Music Educators Association
- Texas Music Educators Association
Texas Music Educators Association, or TMEA, is an organization of over 9,000 Texas school music educators united by common goals. It provides many major music competitions for different levels. Its goal is 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.
Once an affiliate of MENC, 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. [ [http://proquest.umi.org ProQuest Digital Dissertations] , 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)..] ]Functions
TMEA is responsible for auditions into and concerts of Texas's All-Region, All-City, and All-State bands, choirs, and orchestras. It uses the same region classifications as UIL and ATSSB. The audition music is announced at their yearly convention in San Antonio, usually in July.
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External links
* [http://www.tmea.org/ TMEA's official website]
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