Points out the value of a favorable music curriculum for children two to eight years of age, advocating an emphasis on and providing guidelines for programs in vocal development, instrumental skills, and music appreciation in early childhood curricula. (RH)

GRADES OR AGES: Grade 13. SUBJECT MATTER: Music. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The central portion of the guide is divided into six units: voice, strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion, and theory and form. Each unit is in list form. The guide is offset printed and staple-bound with a paper cover. OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES: A list of…

GRADES OR AGES: Grade 2. SUBJECT MATTER: Music including vocal, instrumental, and music appreciation. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide is divided into three sections, one for each of the above-mentioned categories. It is laid out in four columns across two pages. Column headings are goals, activities, helps for the teacher, and…

Discusses the relation of music and religion to contemporary youth. (RK)

Author presents an analysis of American popular music. (RK)

Teaching suggestions for helping children to perform a choral-speaking fugue. (RB)

Presents an analysis of barbershop singing as a method of stimulating students to learn about music and to enjoy singing. It suggests a list of songs prepared by the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America. (Author/RK)

Believes that improvisational ability can be performed vocally as easily as instrumentally and suggests methods for initiating improvisation, for transfering creative insights to pitched activities and how to organize chordal accompaniments for melodic improvisation. (RB)

How to use current records to encourage children to listen to and become involved with music. Methods for using instruments and voice to create new rhythms and styles. (RB)

Focuses on the desirability of teaching children how to read notation and to develop in them the skill of translating symbols into music. Describes the usefulness of the Kodaly method of teaching music reading. (SS)

GRADES OR AGES: Grades 4, 5, and 6. SUBJECT MATTER: Music. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The introductory section contains material on the purpose, general objectives, and organization of the program; recommendations for the classroom vocal program, the classroom instrumental program, the classroom music listening program, and the…

The language teacher is encouraged to begin use of song in the classroom by first learning himself to appreciate the musical qualities and the lyrics of the music he wants to teach and also the conditions under which music is produced and recorded. (MSE)