Creative Music For Children

Children are inherently musical. They respond to music and learn through music. Music expresses children's identity and heritage, teaches them to belong to a culture, and develops their cognitive well-being and inner self worth. As professional instructors, childcare workers, or students looking forward to a career working with children, we should continuously search for ways to tap into children's natural reservoir of enthusiasm for singing, moving and experimenting with instruments. But how, you might ask? What music is appropriate for the children I'm working with? How can music help inspire a well-rounded child? How do I reach and teach children musically? Most importantly perhaps, how can I incorporate music into a curriculum that marginalizes the arts?This book explores a holistic, artistic, and integrated approach to understanding the developmental connections between music and children. This book guides professionals to work through music, harnessing the processes that underlie music learning, and outlining developmentally appropriate methods to understand the role of music in children's lives through play, games, creativity, and movement. Additionally, the book explores ways of applying music-making to benefit the whole child, i.e., socially, emotionally, physically, cognitively, and linguistically.

Your favorite children's books come alive in your music classroom with the songs and creative lesson plans developed by Sandy and Gretchen and presented successfully in level courses and conferences around the country. Each book is read and embellished with songs, games, movement, puppetry, and drama. There's never been a better way to present important music concepts than through engaging young musicians with story, reading, and song. - See more at: http://www.beatinpathpublications.com/SLGW/index.html#sthash.fNBNCDrK.dpuf

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... INTRODUCTION The experiment proper began in October, 1918, after a summer of preliminary experiments with several children from three to six years of age. Previous to that, I had worked my way alone through the constructive side of the plan as outlined in the preceding pages. Two children, one five and a half, and the other seven and a half years of age, were the first to begin the process of study according to my new plan, but others of ages varying from three to nine years were soon included. The lesson period was one hour. Some of the children came four times a week and others twice a week. After the first year, Saturday class lessons were organized to give them greater opportunities in ensemble work. For convenience in relating the story of my experiment I shall divide the work into its several parts, devoting different chapters to different activities; but it must be borne in mind that all of these phases were developed simultaneously and were closely correlated. So far as was practicable, each lesson touched upon every phase of the work, though sometimes a child would spend the entire hour on one thing, unwilling to leave it, especially if he were making an instrument. The younger the child, the greater was the variety of activities employed in his lesson, not only because he had so much to learn, but also because he was less able to concentrate steadily on any one thing. But since he had to sing and dance, make instruments and play them, acquire other knowledge related to these things, form habits and develop skill in many lines, one hour seemed all too short, even for the very young child, and it usually passed before either he or I realized it. In a logical outline, giving my work in the order of its presentation to children, ..

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Excerpt from Creative Music for Children: A Plan of Training Based on the Natural Evolution of Music, Including the Making and Playing of Instruments Dancing Singing Poetry Good Housekeeping, were written by visitors to my studio, and these articles resulted in so many letters from mothers and teachers in all parts of the United States who were perplexed by problems similar to mine, that a book seemed the inevitable answer to them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.