When beginning music teachers enter a new classroom for the first time, they start a journey toward understanding a new context and community. Place consciousness develops as they become embedded in their community and begin to recognize how its culture and environment interact with their teaching practices. By mapping the objects, people, and…

The Naval School of Music was founded in 1935 in response to the poor performance level of the U.S. Navy's bands at that time. The school evolved from an adjunct operation of the U.S. Navy Band into a tri-service institution serving the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps with dedicated facilities, courses for musicians and band leaders, and courses to…

For many novice music teachers, creating and implementing effective music lessons can be a tedious process. Moreover, preparing a music lesson is quite different from lesson planning in other areas, creating a disconnect that music educators may feel when trying to make music lessons fit a classroom lesson-plan model. However, most music teachers…

Previous generations applauded grant-funded programs that brought living composers into the lives of K-12 music students. The current economic climate, however, limits opportunities similar to those enjoyed in the past. We designed a virtual composer-in-residence experience that uses technology to overcome the barriers of funding limitations and…

The United States Office of Education, in cooperation with the Alliance for Arts Education of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, is administering a program of grants and contracts to encourage and assist the establishment of arts education programs. Guidelines for qualifying for a grant or contact are provided. (Author/RK)

Attributes of life-span development, humanistic aspects of aging with a positive self-concept, and psycho-social expectations for older adults are all relevant to developing a philosophical foundation for a music education program for older adults. (RM)

Article focused on the New York State National Chorale, designed to revitalize choral singing in America through the presentation of concerts and special community programs. (Author/RK)

Described the effect music implementation has had upon the curriculum of an open school. (RK)

Discussed the process of planning a program of instruction that concerned itself with student attitudes toward and responses to music and the development of their music skills. (Author/RK)

Article addressed itself to the development of music reading skills in public schools and ways of helping students achieve a worthwhile level of music literacy. (Author/RK)

In today's world of restrictive school budgets and increasing property taxes, it is an unfortunate reality that many school districts will be faced with a budget crunch crisis that unenlightened school boards may try to solve by cutting or eliminating funds for music. At the crisis stage, it is often only the effective advocacy of an organized…

The author, long associated with the school jazz movement, called for the teaching of improvisation rather than cued-in transcribed solos. (Editor/RK)

Article stressed the need for a music teacher in an open school to have an openness to people and ideas. It also described the educational objectives at the Olive School in Arlington Heights, Illinois. (Author/RK)

Describes the development and implementation of the American/Icelandic Music Curriculum Project. The project's goal was to improve elementary and secondary music literacy through sequential music activities and to create guidelines to assist educators in preparing music curricula. A four-stage model for music curriculum design is discussed. (AM)

This is the second of two features on an arts project in San Salvador. (Editor/RK)