A music course of instruction in junior chorus, to develop students' performance skills individually and in ensemble, is described. A prerequisite for pupils is the ability to read music. Outlined are: the course description; enrollment guidelines; study objectives; course content; procedures; resources for pupils and teachers; and the assessment.…

A course in performing organization in which pupils develop increasing performance skills individually and in ensemble, with emphasis on stylistic characteristics of the music studied is presented. Course objectives include: (1) The student will determine the basic metric pattern of selected played examples; (2) The student will count and clap the…

The author, now a member of the literature faculty at Sarah Lawrence College, recalls her learning and life experiences with Nadia Boulanger, a pioneer music educator and the first woman to conduct a number of the world's great symphony orchestras. (RK)

Presents activities for language arts, differentiating between a variable name and its value, creating music using PILOT, and playing LOGO games. Includes the article "Take the Turtle to School: A Child's View of Programming" by Jack McLeod. (JN)

Article focused on what music is and how sound materials are put together and manipulated to produce expressive forms of music. (Author/RK)

From collective improvisation in Afro-American music arose liberated improvisations designed to exhibit personal virtuosity. But that was all that changed; spontaneity and personal sound remained the most interesting components of the music. (Author/RJ)

Author stresses that music educators must recognize the many different roles music plays in people's lives and outlines the hardships to be found in teaching music education. (Author/RK)

Hawaiian music has developed from the simple chant and accompanying hula to choral singing and the use of the guitar and ukulele. Article also presents a compositional and choreographic analysis of Hawaiian music. (RK)

Article stresses the teacher's influence on the creativity of children and the importance in recognizing the necessity for encouraging the development of each child's creative expression. (RK)

Discusses the lack of awareness students have in considering classical music and presents methods for kindling their interests in a music form relatively unknown to them. (RK)

This report on the Contemporary Music Project focuses on the principles of comprehensive musicianship. (Author)

Two approaches used to teach beginning band, a comprehensive musicianship approach and a performance-oriented approach, were compared. The comprehensive musicianship approach was more effective in teaching interval, meter, major-minor mode, and auditory visual discrimination. Both groups performed equally well. (Author/AM)

The author discusses the importance of improvisation, suggesting that improvisation be introduced in the earliest stages of education and be taught through an approach that integrates ear training, sight-reading, instrumental and vocal techniques and theory into a unified and complete understanding of music as a language. (Author/KC)

States that music teachers should write their own string orchestra music to create more music choices. Discusses how to write and publish the music. Includes a list of guidelines for writing and publishing music, as well as chart of factors that teachers should consider. (CMK)

Presents a study that investigates the effect of different melodic configurations on an Orff xylophone on how children compose and on the musical characteristics of their compositions. Focuses on fourth grade students (n=48) who lacked education in musical composition and who composed a song on the xylophone. (CMK)