This curriculum is designed to help blind individuals read music via the Optacon, an electronic device that converts printed figures into vibrating tactile sensations. The curriculum is intended to teach the learner to track and scan musical scores with the Optacon, tactually recognize and discriminate various notational signs found in printed…

Music education does not exist in a vacuum; it must be viewed as part of a total musical scene. Article considered the wide spectrum of musical events in Hawaii that made music education there so rich and varied. (Author/RK)

AN ARTS INSTITUTE WAS DEVELOPED AT FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY THAT IS INDEPENDENT BUT ALSO ORGANIZATIONALLY AFFILIATED WITH THE UNIVERSITY. THE INSTITUTE OPERATES MANY VARIED ENTERPRISES IN THE FIELDS OF VISUAL ARTS, DRAMA, DANCE, MUSIC, AND OPERA. A SURVEY ASSEMBLED DATA TO TEST THE THEORY THAT MANY LOCAL ARTS ORGANIZATIONS IN THE AREA COULD BE…

A secondary student with cerebral palsy describes his pride in playing drums and percussion with his school's marching band in the Tournament of Roses Parade. (CL)

The article describes ways in which music and elements of rhythm, harmony, melody, form dynamics, and mood can contribute to language development in learning disabled children. (CL)

One of the most discouraging things that can happen to the director of a performing group is to lose an outstanding musician from the program due to a conflict in the student's schedule. The floating eighth period schedule is a viable solution. (RM)

Defines and illustrates various types of carols. (SP)

Author suggests that since children have a natural love for singing, it should not be squelched with formal voice training too early. Instead, foster their enthusiasm with informal child-centered activities. (Editor)

Contemporary brass instruments and today's playing techniques can be quite misleading if treated as evidence, or even as vestiges of pre-eighteenth century techniques and performance concepts. (Author)

Describes a house'' within a music room where children come to listen to and read some of their favorite songs, listen to musical stories, play with musical games, or practice their chorus parts with a tape recorder. (Author/CB)

Home run by the Presser Foundation of Philadelphia and founded by Theodore Presser, publisher of The Etude Magazine which he established in 1883. (CB)

Author describes teaching a choral singing class of the mentally handicapped. (RY)

Describes the 50th anniversity celebration of the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester. (MF)