Music Education MIDTERM

The “Dalcroze approach”

An approach for learning music with three main parts: (1) eurhythmic response to music; (2) “fixed” solfège; and (3) improvisation.

Orff Schulwerks approach to music

Rhythm precedes melody and melody precedes harmony. Utilizing speech rhythms, movable do, bodily movement, listening, and improvisation.

The Kodaly approach

Utilizes hand signs, rhythm patterns relating to the material, unaccompanied singing, and high-quality music

Suzuki approach

Method for teaching violin using rote imitation, memorization of pieces, cooperation, short and private lessons, and all students having the same repertoire.

Edwin Gordon approach

“Sound before sight”. Students build their audiation skills through singing, rhythmic movement, and tonal and rhythm pattern instruction before being introduced to notation and music theory.

Feierabends approach

Uses folk songs and rhymes. Along with conversational solfege

Types of music performing groups

Small Ensembles, Orchestras, Marching Bands, Jazz Bands, and Choirs

Lowell Mason

Generally considered to be the father of music education in American schools. Petitioned schools in Boston to include vocal music.

Components of the Teaching Process

What? Why? How? To Whom"? Results?

Non-performance music classes

Music Theory, History, Appreciation, Technology, and Composition.

Tanglewood Symposium

Best known national event for music educators in 1967 which provided a philosophical basis for future developments in music education

The Elementary and Secondary Education Act

This act provided a massive funding of 1.3 billion in 1965 to schools, which helped fund music programs

National Standards for Arts Education: What Every Young American Should Know and Be Able to do in the Arts

The most significant national effort affecting music and the arts in the 1990s to develop “world-class” standards

“No Child Left Behind” Act

Disastrous Act for Music Education, signed in 2001, that emphasized reading and math in schools

The 2014 Standards

Expansion of the 1994 standards homogenized the four categories into one process-orientated online document based on three artistic processes: creating, performing, and responding.

NAfME recommendation for classroom schedule

Ninety minutes per week.

General music instruction conclusion

Age 12. No uniform national pattern exists for schools containing grades 5 or 6 through 9