Download or read book A Method of Teaching Music to a Musically Untrained Eighth Grade Class written by Harvey Elmer Jones and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Critical Thinking and Creativity in an Eighth grade Music Classroom written by Jeffrey Martens and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In my experience, the creative aspect of music has been ignored too often in public school music programs. The multi-part lesson I have designed will incorporate as many aspects of the music process as possible, especially creativity. It can be used with virtually any age, skill level, or primary instrument, depending on need. My focus here is with 8th grade students who have a basic foundation of musical skills. Students will use all their prior musical skills and knowledge to compose a complete melody. They will notate their melody using a music notation program they have easy access to, such as Noteflight, MuseScore, or Quaver. The teacher will have provided prior training on how to use the basic functions of the chosen program. Students will work at their own pace and produce a high-quality product. At this point, some brief training about harmony and accompaniment will be provided by the teacher. Then, a key specific "cheat sheet" that contains common chords, common chord progressions, and simple, repeatable accompaniment patterns will be provided for students to use if they please. Students will write an accompaniment to go with their melody. This accompaniment can be as simple as root position chords placed in sensible locations, or as complex as the student's ability will allow. The goal is creativity and quality work. The composer will sing or play their melody for the class using any instrument he or she is comfortable with, while the computer plays the student created accompaniment. If nerves are too much of an issue, the computer can play both the melody and accompaniment for the student. The composer will then talk the class through his or her creative process as well as any history behind the song. At this point, other students will have the opportunity to discuss what they noticed and appreciated about the piece. If the composer wishes, the class can provide constructive comments that could make the piece stronger. Composers will then have the opportunity to revise, make additions, alterations, or orchestrate the piece, with the possibility of a school ensemble performing it for an audience. Alternatively, the composer could choose to simply move on to a completely new project. Throughout the entire process, the teacher, the internet, books and other resources will be available for student composers to use at their convenience. At this point in my journey through a master's degree, I have noticed several career changing developments in my approach to teaching music. The most surprising and valuable of which is that I have gained a better understanding of what I believe about music education, its place in public schools, and why it is important. The direction of music education is changing, at least in part, to become more student-centered; with individual interest, knowledge, skill, and context growing in importance. I, as a music educator, must continue to learn, adapt, and change over time to make music education relevant and meaningful to ALL students. I have noticed other powerful and complex skills have developed, as well. I have grown in my ability to learn on my own; gather, organize, and present information on a given topic, in a variety of ways. I can effectively find, understand, and use research in my quest to learn and grow. The complex skill of classroom management is something I have been intently focusing on since my research class, in the summer of 2019. I have been observing, reading, writing, contemplating, and practicing this skill. Other salient skills that have expanded include choosing appropriate music, score study and preparation, and the skill and confidence to arrange music for any purpose I may encounter as a music educator
Download or read book Musical Courier and Review of Recorded Music written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Some Suggested Ways of Teaching Music written by Los Angeles County Schools and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Musical Monitor written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Music Skills written by Catholic University of America. Workshop on Music Skills, 1957 and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Child as Musician written by Gary E. McPherson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of The Child as Musician: A Handbook of Musical Development celebrates the richness and diversity of the many different ways in which children can engage in and interact with music. It presents theory - both cutting edge and classic - in an accessible way for readers by surveying research concerned with the development and acquisition of musical skills. The focus is on musical development from conception to late adolescences, although the bulk of the coverage concentrates on the period when children are able to begin formal music instruction (from around age 3) until the final year of formal schooling (around age 18). There are many conceptions of how musical development might take place, just as there are for other disciplines and areas of human potential. Consequently, the publication highlights the diversity in current literature dealing with how we think about and conceptualise children's musical development. Each of the authors has searched for a better and more effective way to explain in their own words and according to their own perspective, the remarkable ways in which children engage with music. In the field of educational psychology there are a number of publications that survey the issues surrounding child and adolescent development. Some of the more innovative present research and theories, and their educational implications, in a style that stresses the fundamental interplay among the biological, environmental, social and cultural influences at each stage of a child's development. Until now, no similar overview has existed for child and adolescent development in the field of music. The Child as Musician addresses this imbalance, and is essential for those in the fields of child development, music education, and music cognition.
Download or read book The Making of Musicians written by T. H. Yorke Trotter and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An excerpt from the beginning of the first chapter: I. FIRST PRINCIPLES MUSIC SHOULD BE THE MOST POPULAR ART WHICH should be the most popular of the arts ? Undoubtedly music, for it is natural to all men to express their feelings in rhythmic motion and in sound, and music is the art of rhythmic motion in sound. We hear on all sides the attempt at self-expression in musical sound. The boy whistles as he goes about his occupations, the working-girl sings at her work; to all of us alike the first means of self-expression are to be found in music. Moreover, we hear music everywhere in nature. We all know what a charm in life is given by the sweet songs of birds, while we seem to hear a music in the splash of the waves of the sea, and in the sighing of the wind. There is music all around us, though some of us are slow to hear it. And yet we must admit that the study of this art of music is not at the present time a joy to the pupil, but rather, in many cases, a wearisome task. "There is only this horrid music that comes between us, mother," said the little boy in the Punch story, and his case is by no means a singular one. Often do we hear people say they are unmusical and hate music; there is no universal wish to learn the secret of the art. THE REASON WHY THE STUDY OF MUSIC IS OFTEN SO MUCH DISLIKED Why is it that the study of music is not popular ? Why is it that there is so much unwillingness to give up time to learn to play on an instrument or to use the voice with good effect ? The answer is simply this, that, as a rule, the teaching of music has been merely a giving of facts — facts of notation, that is to say, imparting the knowledge of the symbols used to express musical sounds; and what I may call facts of technique — that is to say, the training of the muscles so as to obtain the best results in practical performance on an instrument, or in the production of the singing voice. The piano is the instrument that is most used in the teaching of music, and the methods adopted in teaching performance on the piano may be taken as emblematic of those used in other branches of musical education. The child is taught what are called " notes," that is, the symbols used to express musical sound, and the use of the keys on the piano, that, when pressed down, reproduce these sounds. The muscles are trained to be strong and pliable, and to answer quickly and readily the orders of the brain. This teaching is carried on until the pupil can read the notation of music, and can play pieces correctly, and possibly with good tone and proper attention to the phrasing, or articulation, of the music. At the same time the pupil may be taught what is incorrectly called the theory of music ; that is to say, he may be given the knowledge of all the symbols used, their meaning and effect, the construction of scales, the use of signatures at the beginning of a piece, and the like.
Download or read book Teaching Music Fundamentals Via Programmed Materials in a Seventh Grade General Music Class written by Norman Lloyd Owen and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study Treating the Application of Creative Teaching in Eighth Grade General Music Classes written by Sarah F. Mathews and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Musical Courier written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1957-61 include an additional (mid-January) no. called Directory issue, 1st-5th ed. The 6th ed. was published as the Dec. 1961 issue.
Download or read book Musical Observer written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Etude Music Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Power of Music written by Susan Hallam and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2022-07-11 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on her earlier work, 'The Power of Music: A Research Synthesis of the Impact of Actively Making Music on the Intellectual, Social and Personal Development of Children and Young People', this volume by Susan Hallam and Evangelos Himonides is an important new resource in the field of music education, practice, and psychology. A well-signposted text with helpful subheadings, 'The Power of Music: An Exploration of the Evidence' gathers and synthesises research in neuroscience, psychology, and education to develop our understanding of the effects of listening to and actively making music. Its chapters address music’s relationship with literacy and numeracy, transferable skills, its impact on social cohesion and personal wellbeing, as well as the roles that music plays in our everyday lives. Considering evidence from large population samples to individual case studies and across age groups, the authors also pose important methodological questions to the research community. 'The Power of Music' defends qualitative research against a requirement for randomised control trials that can obscure the diverse and often fraught contexts in which people of all ages and backgrounds are exposed to, and engage with, music. This magnificent and comprehensive volume allows the evidence about the power of music to speak for itself, thus providing an essential directory for those researching music education and its social, personal, and cognitive impact across human ages and experiences.
Download or read book The Elementary School Teacher written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of Research on Improving Student Achievement written by Gordon Cawelti and published by Editorial Projects in Education. This book was released on 2004 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated report is an essential tool for school leaders and practitioners alike, and is the single most authoritative source for effective K-12 teaching and learning practices across the content areas. This one volume brings together in readable, concise language the authoritative research on effective classroom practices in all major disciplines currently taught in elementary and secondary schools: the arts, foreign language, health, language arts, physical education, mathematics, social studies, and science, as well as generic practices that apply across all disciplines. This third edition includes over 100 research-based classroom strategies, and features a new chapter that synthesises the research on high-performing school districts, and discusses ways school districts can support instructional improvement.
Download or read book The Beginning Teacher written by John Conrad Almack and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
