This teaching unit offers teachers, students, and their families a look at 3 centuries of history about the piano. Four lessons for high school music classes offer an opportunity to explore the cultural climate that nurtured the invention of and innovations for the piano along with descriptions of the personalities of the inventors, composers, and…

This manual is designed for music and classroom teachers of children from infancy to age eight. All musical experiences lead to learning, from the simplest rhythmic experiences of being rocked to sleep to the more sophisticated challenge of playing one rhythmic pattern while singing another. When musical experiences are related to the…

This investigation, which was part of a larger dissertation study, examined high-level performance in groups of people with developmental disabilities and the instruction that facilitated such performance. Specifically, it focused on those aspects of instruction that appeared to be particularly effective in eliciting a high level of performance in…

Since its formation in 1974, the renowned performing group, "From Scratch," has developed a distinctive style of music using sophisticated rhythmic language and unique sculptural instruments. The group's experiences have been transformed into the exercises and game forms presented in this workbook. The hands-on workbook uses a body-based…

In this article, evaluation by the music teacher is discussed and a list of different kinds of child growth is presented. (Author/RK)

Article stressed the need for music educators to help their pupils to understand our musical heritage. (RK)

Article profiles the life of a great music educator, conductor and performer as well as his contribution to United States music development. (RK)

Describes ways to get children to be the music they love, and to recognize, sing and play, on available instruments, the tones of the scale.

Black music of African and Afro-American peoples is particularly attuned to sounds, has a metronome sense, and is analyzed through use of a density referent by which students become involved in musical compositon. (RK)

Article explains the manner in which music can be made attractive to all people. (RK)

Article refers to the generally inadequate music education of the educable mentally retarded child and suggests methods of dealing with this problem. (Author/MM)

Discusses the history of music education in the educational system of Norway beginning with the period just after the war and into the present. (MF)

The effects of 4 months of gymnostic training upon complex and simple gross motor abilities and general cognitive and psychosocial functioning in 4-year-olds were compared with the effects of music training and no treatment. (WY)