General Music: Dimensions of Practice is a practical guide for music teachers and teaching artists who strive to teach music holistically. The book begins by framing general music as a holistic music education that is comprehensive, meaningful, and relevant to diverse learners in school and community settings. It is followed by chapters that are organized into one of four dimensions of music practice: performing, connecting, creating, and responding. Chapter authors share creative and innovative teaching ideas, for both elementary and secondary school students, that focus on a wide range of topics, including: songwriting, composing, improvising, singing, moving, playing, listening, analyzing, contextualizing, and connecting. Each chapter provides (a) a rationale for a given area of music study, establishing its importance and relevance; (b) a research or theoretical background, to inform and guide practice; and (c) a pedagogical model or framework illustrated through lesson ideas, curriculum units, or vignettes. The ideas in this book seek to inspire and guide teachers as they build comprehensive music programs that are informed by students and communities.
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This thoughtful undertaking provides a full flowering of principal features of 'General Music', that holistic realm of experience and education that extends across all facets of meaningful musical participation for elementary and secondary school students. With its extensive coverage, theoretical notions, and pedagogical considerations, Abril and Gault have framed a fine guide to music practice for classrooms of children and youth, and have invited an excellent crew of expert authors to detail participatory musicking in ways that carefully attend to the cognitive, kinesthetic, and affective development of diverse learners. * Patricia Shehan Campbell, Donald E. Peterson Professor of Music, University of Washington * This masterfully edited collection of essays is a first to position general music as a holistic, interconnected, and complex activity that is intimately linked with intrapersonal and interpersonal human connections. Supported by the most recent research and theoretical work, each chapter offers teaching ideas on the many areas and themes that compose the mosaic of general music, including presentational and participatory musicking, singing, performance, listening, appreciation, creativity, pop, folk and world music, technology, and community building. This must-read book will inspire teachers, students, researchers, and anyone interested in the art of general music education. * Associate Professor of Music Education, University of Southern California *
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Carlos R. Abril is Professor of Music and Associate Dean at the University of Miami Frost School of Music, where he teaches courses in equity, access, and diversity in music education, philosophy of music education, and general music methods. His body of research seeks to document visible and invisible barriers to the study of music in schools, as well as to illuminate ways to make the study of music more relevant and accessible. Abril's work is published in numerous research and professional journals, as well as in books. He co-edited the books Teaching General Music: Approaches, Issues, and Viewpoints and Musical Experiences in Our Lives: Lessons We Learn and Meanings We Make and has published music and instructional materials for World Music Press and McGraw-Hill's Spotlight on Music. Abril is the chair of the Society for Research in Music Education and has served on the Research Panel for the National Endowment for the Arts. He was recently honored with the Phillip Frost Award for
Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship.
Brent M. Gault is Professor of Music Education and Interim Chair of the Music Education Department at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He has taught elementary and early childhood music courses in Texas, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Indiana. He specializes in elementary general music education, early childhood music education, and Kodaly-inspired methodology. He also has training in both the Orff and Dalcroze approaches to music education. Gault has presented sessions and research at conferences of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association, Dalcroze Society of America, International Kodaly Society, International Society for Music Education, Organization of American Kodaly Educators, and National Association for Music Education. In addition, he has served as a presenter and guest lecturer for colleges and music education organizations in the United States, Canada, China, Ireland, and Singapore. He is the co-editor of Teaching
General Music: Approaches, Issues, and Viewpoints and author of Listen Up! Fostering Musicianship Through Active Listening.
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Professor of Music EducationProfessor of Music Education, University of Miami
Professor of Music EducationProfessor of Music Education, Indiana University
1. General Music as Holistic Music Education
Carlos R. Abril and Brent M. Gault
Performing
2. Singing in the Elementary General Music Classroom
Sarah J. Bartolome
3. Playing with Orff and Classroom Instruments
Amy Beegle
4. Participatory Music Making with Fretted Instruments
Martina Vasil
5. Pedagogical Approaches in Modern Band
Gareth Dylan Smith and Warren Gramm
6. Teaching and Learning World Music
Karen Howard
Connecting
7. Teaching Music for Human Connections
Carlos R. Abril and Loneka W. Battiste
8. Fostering Historical Empathy through Music, Art, and Poetry
Janet Revell Barrett
9. Connecting with Repertoire: On the Efficacy of Folksong
Jacqueline Kelly-McHale
10. Toward School and Community Musical Engagements
Kari K. Veblen
11. How Do We Connect? Music Education in Online and Hybrid Learning
Nyssa M. Brown
Creating
12. Frames for Improvising
Una MacGlone
13. New Ways to Think about Composing and Producing
Katherine Strand and Michele Kaschub
14. Demystifying Songwriting
Kat Reinhart
15. Digital Media, Digital Technology, and Participatory Culture
Ann C. Clements
Responding
16. Movement: An Integral Component of General Music
Marja-Leena Juntunen
17. Engaging Learners in Active Music Listening
Brent M. Gault
18. Perceiving and Responding through Analysis
Andrew S. Paney and Nathan O. Buonviri
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