This valuable resource is designed to give elementary teachers with no formal music training all the tools they need to help their students develop an understanding of and appreciation for music. This book includes lessons, reproducible games, worksheets and puzzles. Also included are MP3 files that feature over 60 minutes of music and a complete PowerPoint presentation. The book follows a well-sequenced curriculum based on the National Standards for Music Education in the United States and the Ontario Curriculum for the Arts in Canada.
This edition includes a brand new chapter on teaching interculturally, showing how children can reach their full creative potential and not be constrained by cultural stereotyping.
This book guides professionals to work through music, harnessing the processes that underlie music learning, and outlining developmentally appropriate methods to understand the role of music in children's lives through play, games, ...
This collection of essays seeks to help redress the balance, providing advice and guidance to those who teach a college-level music history or music appreciation course, be they a graduate student setting out on their teaching career, or a ...
In this second edition, the authors offer fully up-to-date information on the diagnosis of autism, advocating for students and music programs, and creating and maintaining a team-approach when working with colleagues.
How the adult can help the young child to learn the tonal and rhythmic language of music is the subject of this book. Music and young children fit as well...
54) Additional genres include musica nortena (a style with roots in Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Poland, that includes polka characteristics and use of the accordion) and banda (a style originating from military bands whose ...
She edits, with Susan Young, the journal Primary Music Today. Also with Susan Young she is the co-author of two books: Music in the Early Years and Primary Music: Later Years, both published by Palmer Press.
Striking the perfect balance between theory and practice, this invaluable text includes case studies and exemplars, carefully designed activities to try out in the classroom, as well as a range of tried-and-tested teaching strategies to ...
Recent publications include Constructing a Personal Orientation to Music Teaching (Routledge, coauthored with Mark Robinn Campbell & Linda Thompson), The Musical Experience: Rethinking Music Teaching and Learning (OUP, with Peter R.
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