This book uncovers the multifaceted nature of music participation through a collection of studies in a wide variety of musical contexts across the United States. The contributors combine personal voices and vivid narratives with scholarship to present many potential meanings of …
Collection of chants and poems which set everyday spoken English to jazz rhythms.
Jazz chants is a collection of chants and poems that set everyday situational English to jazz rhythms to demonstrated the rhythm and intonation pattern of conversational American English. Each chant, recorded on cassette by the author and a choral speaking group, is accompanied …
The rhythmic expression of standard American English as it occurs in a situational context to develop students' appreciation of the rhythm and intonation patterns of spoken American English.
The book offers 15 fully-developed and classroom-vetted instructional plans and assessments span in age range from kindergarten through grade 12. With these instructional lessons for music and STEM classes, teachers in training, current educators, and administrators can better u…
The book offers 15 fully-developed and classroom-vetted instructional plans and assessments span in age range from kindergarten through grade 12. With these instructional lessons for music and STEM classes, teachers in training, current educators, and administrators can better u…
Explores the psychological and sociological dimensions of musical experience and their implications for music teachers. `This significant book should be in the hands of all with an interest in music education' - TES.
Text and CD of 10 songs of different styles by different artists. The book has the lyrics, vocabulary and grammar exercises for each song, answers, tips, suggestions, and related weblinks.
'This book deals with music education, but I think its intent, and the intellectual trajectory it traces, go far beyond the realm of music, and shows how schooling has become 'raced' in a way so pervasive, yet so invisible, that we have to look deeply to see this tendency as any…
Carnatic music education; psychological perspective.
From the Foreword by Maya Angelou Recognized or not, directly or obliquely, music is a major factor in the life of every human being. The ear is attuned to hearing melody from birth, whether the melody is that of the mother's lullaby or the tune of languages spoken. Spirits are …
Peter Perret, conductor of the Winston-Salem Symphony, chronicles in A Well-Tempered Mind how a brief NPR feature about music and the brain inspired him to create an innovative music education program for first- through third-graders at two elementary schools in Winston-Salem, N…
