Instruction in street and field marching techniques and study of appropriate music are the topics covered in this course handbook. The handbook contains guidelines on the following topics: Course Description; Course Enrollment Guidelines; Course of Study Objectives--Musicianship, Performance--Course Content; Course Procedures, Strategies, and…

Presented is a review of the physical acoustics of percussion instruments. Instruments included are the glockenspiel, marimba, xylophone, vibes, chimes, and triangles. (SL)

This publication provides orchestra teachers with techniques for conducting, choosing repertoire, program development, recruiting, playing styles, and preparing for competitions. It is the latest in MENC's popular Spotlight series, comprising articles that have appeared in state MEA journals. It is made up of 9 sections, and has a total of 53…

Instrument instruction provided by local authorities has contributed to musical activities in primary and secondary schools for many years. A national survey asked the following questions: How much musical instrumental instruction goes on now in Scottish schools?; Are the numbers of pupils and instructors rising or falling?; How much do the local…

Article looked at educational practices in Great Britain to see how music functions in an open education environment. (Editor/RK)

Teacher applies a creative approach to teaching music to elementary school students. (RK)

Describes music participation by children as an important facet of elementary music experiences. (RK)

Students participated in making music with very little verbal communication and the teacher found a way to eliminate fruitless lecturing and nonmusicmaking. (Author/RK)

American music educators are a major part of the continuing change in music curriculum that has been planned for public school music of presentday America. (Author/RK)

Presents some important methods in which curriculums and educational structures can meet the needs of society and contribute to human learning. As well, the article points out some areas in which American music education needs to change. (Author/RK)

Describes an opera based on Peter Pan which was composed, produced, and performed entirely by children in grades one through six. (MB)

Son Jarocho (specifically from Veracruz) is a song-and-dance form originating in Spain and implanted in Mexico during 17th- and 18th-century colonization. The jarocho style of music today is one of Latin America's most unique forms, using one to four instruments and characterized by its distinctive rhythm. (LC)

The investigation concerned the construction of a test of musical creativity that would assess the hypothesized divergent production abilities of music fluency, flexibility, originality, elaboration, and quality in school instrumental music students. The developed test, measures of musical divergent production (MMDP), was based on models of…

The author highlights some of the progressive trends in jazz band arrangements--woodwind doubling, synthesizers, strings, multipercussion, and other nontraditional instruments--and suggests sources for such scores to school jazz band directors. This article is part of a theme issue on popular music. (Author/SJL)