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Kratus, John – Music Educators Journal, 2019
The future of American music education may be found in its past--a time when music teachers instilled lifelong amateur music-making in their students. There are differences between amateur and professional musicianship, and the focus of American music education shifted from amateurism to semiprofessionalism in the mid-twentieth century. An…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Music Teachers, Singing

Kratus, John – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2001
Presents a study that investigates the effect of different melodic configurations on an Orff xylophone on how children compose and on the musical characteristics of their compositions. Focuses on fourth grade students (n=48) who lacked education in musical composition and who composed a song on the xylophone. (CMK)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Education, Grade 4, Higher Education