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Teaching Music, 1999
Provides a strategy from the book "Strategies for Teaching Middle-Level General Music" that addresses Standard 3C from the National Standards for Music Education in which students improvise melodies in various styles on the keyboard using the G-flat major and E-flat minor scales. Describes the procedure, indicators of success, and…
Descriptors: Improvisation, Intermediate Grades, Melody, Middle Schools
Peer reviewedCarlin, Joi – Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, 1997
Explores the factors that may influence the decisions made by students aged 9-15 years old as they chose musical sounds and constructed compositions. Indicates that age, formal music training, and aesthetic response to musical sounds are the primary factors affecting specific choices made in the compositional process. (CMK)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, Age, Decision Making, Educational Research
Download full textGreaser, Thomas C., Jr. – 1994
A middle school student helper teacher program based on some cooperative learning tenants provided alternative instruction to sixth grade instrumental students in music lessons that would have been severely curtailed due to budget reductions and increasing enrollment. Students were grouped on like instruments and divided into subgroups by ability.…
Descriptors: Bands (Music), Cooperative Learning, Grade 6, Grade 7
