Exploring Music - Teacher's Edition Author:Eunice Boardman, Beth Landis Appropriate for 9 to 11 year olds. — The teacher sets the environment for learning through which children may explore the music of mankind. As this rich heritage is discovered, the child will grow in ability to understand and organize, as well as interpret and express, musical ideas. — It is the teacher's challenge to help the child: perform; or... more »ganize; describe, in order that the child may:
realize that music is an expressive art and thus value own involvement as a music-maker and knowledgable listener.
Understand that one may interpret another's music and express one's own musical ideas through the communicative tools of language (written and spoken) and musical notation (devised or traditional).
Develop the ability to use nonverbal skills, including movement and visual imagery, to reveal awareness of the musical totality when other forms of communication prove inadequate.
Grow in understanding that the same components of music have been combined in many ways to produce music of many styles, time periods, and cultures of man.
Develop a bank of knowledge, based on many sensory experiences, which will enable him to make valid judgements about own musical efforts, as well as those of others.
Realize that understanding the contribution of the individual components to the musical totality may deepen the aesthetic experience.
Each child should have this opportunity so that he may develop a set of values regarding the kinds of music he will find satisfying and the place which music will fill in his own life.« less