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Description for Listen Up!
Paperback. Listen Up! includes 23 sample listening experiences in which children can foster music skills and reinforce given music concepts (rhythm, melody, form) that are prominent in each selection. PowerPoint presentations for each experience are also included. These provide material students can view and respond to as they listen. Num Pages: 144 pages, 125 images. BIC Classification: JNLB; JNU; YQB. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 280 x 221 x 8. Weight in Grams: 352.
All people respond to music through listening. Since this music behavior is such a universal part of life, and the skills fostered through critical listening to music can transfer to many other areas, emphasizing listening in a given music curriculum is logical. Children learn actively through direct experience with given concepts. Because of this, it makes sense to approach listening instruction actively by using other music behaviors (singing, moving, chanting, creating) and aural, visual, and kinesthetic learning modes as a way to develop a deeper connection with musical material while fostering music skills and introducing or reinforcing music concepts. ... Read more
All people respond to music through listening. Since this music behavior is such a universal part of life, and the skills fostered through critical listening to music can transfer to many other areas, emphasizing listening in a given music curriculum is logical. Children learn actively through direct experience with given concepts. Because of this, it makes sense to approach listening instruction actively by using other music behaviors (singing, moving, chanting, creating) and aural, visual, and kinesthetic learning modes as a way to develop a deeper connection with musical material while fostering music skills and introducing or reinforcing music concepts. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199990511
SKU
V9780199990511
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Ref
99-6
About Brent M. Gault
Brent M. Gault is Associate Professor of Music Education at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. His areas of interest include music education policy, children's vocal development, and music listening in childhood. Articles by Gault have appeared in the Journal of Research in Music Education and the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education. He is the ... Read more
Reviews for Listen Up!
Even if readers are not expert teachers, as long as they follow the descriptions and directions in these lesson plans, they will learn from doing so and will find it possible to adjust their teaching behaviors and notice dimensions, problems, and solutions that they might not have noticed before. ... Listen Up! can help readers take the first steps toward ... Read more