The disappearance of planes and ships in the Great Lakes area is the focus of the three activities in this unit. Activity A involves studying the locations of missing craft and personnel. Activity B, which treats the loss of the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald as an example of a Great Lakes tragedy, consists of plotting bathymetric contours,…

The practium paper describes the development and implementation of a music laboratory program which was designed to introduce music to gifted and talented elementary school students. Program objectives, plan of action, implementation procedures, evaluation, and budget are described. The general objective of the program was to prepare the students…

This paper provides examples of how music can be used in geography instruction at the elementary, secondary, or college levels. The occasional use of music can foster imagination and promote greater aesthetic awareness with regard to landscapes and human situations. Many concepts and terms in physical geography can be lined with music. A good…

The bibliography lists over 400 works in the California State University Library, Sacramento, on pop, rock, country, folk, blues, and soul music from 1950 to the present. Books, periodicals, and non-book materials noted in the bibliography are appropriate for history, communication studies, and popular culture studies as well as for music. Items…

The primary function of music education is the development of a responsiveness to the artistic qualities of sound. The constituent elements fundamental to musical response are rhythm, melody, harmony, form, expression, and style. With the goal of developing a responsiveness consisting of musicality and affective growth, this guide has been…

This discography was prepared at the International Institute for Comparative Music Studies and Documentation in Berlin as a contribution to strengthening material resources useful in teaching about societies and cultures outside the United States and Western Europe. It is not an exhaustive compilation, but a selection of recordings of traditional…

This document contains notes that have been prepared to accompany a set of 12 tapes illustrating a variety of performance styles in both North and South Indian music. The "ragas" given is Western notation together with informative comments on the tapes and the material collected in these notes should provide a teacher with some knowledge…

The material in this teacher's guide for a high school elective course may be used in a variety of curriculum designs--from a mini elective to a full year course. The rationale section explains that folksinging can be a valuable activity in the classroom by: 1) presenting a mirror for the student's personality and by being a useful tool for…

In this course, the interaction of music and the American society in the twentieth century, for students who are interested in the Humanities and have working knowledge of the English language, is studied. This handbook is a guide to the course and presents, in outline format, the following topics: Course Description; Course Enrollment; Course…

An analysis of the material tastes of college students support Gan's concepts of taste culture and taste public. While Gan's contention that class has a major effect upon involvement with taste culture, this requires qualification where musical tastes of college students are concerned. (Author/AM)

Presents a study which assessed undergraduates' and children's music preferences for examples of symphonic music. Serving as a teaching and planning experience for undergraduates, the study revealed that children's preferences were increased through undergraduate presentations and that college students used larger vocabularies when describing…

A learning sequence is sketched that enables children to have valid experiences in music, language, mathematics, and movement, more or less simultaneously. The activity starts with a short tune and works toward a song as the solution to the problem. The creation of a dance follows the writing of the song. (RH)

Moving to music may significantly enhance our appreciation of a performance of a music work. Implications for the encouragement of movement in education for music appreciation are discussed. (RM)

Elementary teachers participating in the study thought of music listening as a separate activity and not as one that permeated all music instruction. Assigned listening was utilized mostly in singing, in the playing of instruments, and in traditional music appreciation lessons where students were asked to listen to a recording. (Author/RM)

Song seems to lend itself particularly to language instruction because it encourages participation in a game of recognizing who is speaking, how, and about what and because enunciation is the dominant trait of its structure. Activities using song might focus on the condensation of meaning, redundance, interpretation, social consequences of song,…