Believes that improvisational ability can be performed vocally as easily as instrumentally and suggests methods for initiating improvisation, for transfering creative insights to pitched activities and how to organize chordal accompaniments for melodic improvisation. (RB)

How to use current records to encourage children to listen to and become involved with music. Methods for using instruments and voice to create new rhythms and styles. (RB)

One teaching idea that has served to develop aesthetic sensitivity within the performance program involves the utilization of conducting by all students as a means of developing musical perception and responsiveness. (Author)

Explores the personal and informal dimensions of listening to and making music, noting the varieties of genres and cultural representations in Hawaii. The article explains how to expand one's experiences with music and discusses how to select musical activities. Descriptions of pitch, time, medium, form, and expression are included. (SM)

Describes the picture book rendition of the operatic story "Aida" (based on the opera composed by G. Verdi) as retold by opera diva Leontyne Price. Describes how this picture book is appropriate for introducing adolescent readers to opera. Describes specific activities for music classes, musical resources, specific art activities, and…

The teaching of music-related leisure skills to secondary students with disabilities is discussed. Areas of discussion include the limits of music education programs; music-related skills that can be taught in the classroom (including accessing, appreciating, and engaging in musical experiences); and teaching music-related skills (including…

This guide outlines a music program for kindergarten through grade 6. The developers believe that a knowledge of music will lead to increased enjoyment and participation now and later in life. The bulk of the guide contains a program outline for each grade level. The program is comprised of three categories: objectives (the skill or concept that…

Gives background information for a secondary unit on the blues. Such a unit should include singing blues songs and playing accompaniment, listening to records, and composing original works. Study of the blues is an important way to transmit insights about our cultural heritage. (CS)

The language teacher is encouraged to begin use of song in the classroom by first learning himself to appreciate the musical qualities and the lyrics of the music he wants to teach and also the conditions under which music is produced and recorded. (MSE)

"Zero to Three" is a single focus bulletin of the National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families providing insight from multiple disciplines on the development of infants, toddlers, and their families. Noting that knowledge of childrens musical experiences in context is central to understanding childrens lives, and that reciprocally,…

A kindergarten class from Bronx (New York) increased their skill in oral language development throughout a span of 10 weeks with daily exposure to songs, song picture books, story books, games, body percussion and instruments. Music appreciation was integrated into every area of the curriculum. The paper includes lists of songs, objectives,…

Believes that the school should introduce the child to new sounds and sound sources and suggests various methods to activate a child's sense of structure and design so that he becomes aware of his ability to express himself in sound. (RB)

Children have an innate ability to like and produce music, and elementary teachers have a responsibility for developing this aptitude. (MB)

Few teachers, students, or parents would question the importance of practice when learning to sing or play an instrument. And, while most who are involved in music education would probably concur on certain aspects of what constitutes good music teaching and lessons, they would probably also agree that a problem may exist in what takes place in…