Author: David Knauss
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Published: 2002
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ISBN-13: 9781955820042
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Discover how, in this curriculum of five books 1, 1A, 2, 3, and 4, music elements (music concepts) are scope-and-sequence taught through learning the active-participation music skills of listening, singing / chanting, moving, playing / performing, improvising / creating, composing / arranging, reading / notating, and describing / evaluating. Also discover how music skills begin with discrimination (rote) learning and progress to the limitless creative levels of inferential learning. Discover how every person at any age can sing in tune (tonal skill) and perform a steady beat (rhythm skill). Singing in tune develops into maintaining intonation with an accurate tonal center, and performing a steady beat develops into maintaining a consistent tempo with an accurate meter. These two skills are the Gateway Skills to all of music. When learned, spectators turn into life-long participators, and the whole realm of music becomes available. Discover how a curriculum, which is not a textbook or music series book, can be your pathway into ultimate teaching freedom and your students' exciting journey into realms of limitless artistic creativity. Discover in Book 3 how 36 performance projects are multi-functional: (1) they bridge the gap between primary grades' rote learning basic skills and music elements (discrimination learning) and secondary grades' complex music manipulating (inferential learning); (2) they focus on developing fine-tuned performance and ensemble skills, and internalized musicianship skills, with simple to complex combinations of the music elements; (3) cleverly adapted Orff-Schulwerk arrangements (field-tested and well-liked) lead students into performing music from Folk to Classical and Medieval to Contemporary; and (4) every project assesses each student's understanding with a brief music element (concept) analysis. (223 pgs.)
