Valentine's Day activities which include a play, music, poetry, and numerous art and craft projects are presented in this compilation from February issues of "Instructor" magazine. The short and easy projects, suitable for primary and elementary students, use inexpensive and easily found materials such as paper, cloth, yarn, magazine…

Underscoring folklore's appropriateness to multicultural classroom settings are its connection with past and present cultures, its constancy and change, and its potential for oral transmission of human values. Most importantly, folktales and songs enable children to participate in the history of universal human emotions. To effectively include…

The College Music Society is an international organization whose members represent all areas and disciplines of music education. The proceedings from both the 1985 annual meeting of the National Society and the regional meetings reflect the larger educational concerns and problems that face the profession. Papers included from the National meeting…

This paper focuses on musical theater in the high school in British Columbia. It gives a rationale for incorporating musical theater in secondary schools, exploring the impact that a theater program may have on the music program, teachers, students, and community. Further, the paper presents a detailed guide to the process of producing a musical.…

The manual presents nine workshop formats in dance, music, visual arts, and drama designed to introduce special education teachers to the value of arts for the handicapped. Each workshop begins with a brief introduction, describes activities that may be adapted to the classroom and to special populations, and explains the activities' purposes and…

This music resource book is a compilation of traditional Hawaiian mele (songs) for use as a tool in music instruction and as a means to educate students in both the Hawaiian language and in various aspects of Hawaiian culture. Music and words are provided for each song as well as an English translation. The first section is comprised of songs or…

Article provided some recommendations by the Hawaii Music Advisory Council on how to achieve a balanced music curriculum in Hawaiian schools. (Author/RK)

Intended for use by elementary teachers, this publication contains the music for ten songs from the Luba in the Kasai and Shaba regions of Zaire. The songs provide a means for young people to enjoy and to appreciate the musical heritage of Africa as a part of their more general understanding of music from around the world. The songs included are…

Since all preschool children do not have fully developed listening abilities, a program of musical activities is useful for teachers as a diagnostic tool and as an enjoyable way to improve children's listening skills. A five stage program, involving (1) short span listening, (2) active responses to aural stimuli, (3) creative expression, (4)…

The manual provides suggestions on using records in physical education and recreation programs with handicapped persons and describes 181 records in terms of age level, use, and vendor. Brief summaries are also included for each record, and items are categorized according to major area of emphasis: general music, songs, and rhythms; movement…

A unified teaching method that integrates literature with musical concepts, terms, and songs is discussed in this paper. Included are a description of the application of musical concepts and terms to children's literature and storytelling; a discussion of rhythm, repetition, and rhyme as each relates to children; a checklist to use in song…

The bibliography contains references to primarily journal literature dealing with music as a therapeutic tool. References to articles concerned with music as a healer are listed under one of the following categories: activities, audioanalgesia, education, effects, emotionally disturbed children, geriatrics, handicapped; medicine, mentally ill,…

This self-help guide for the music teacher is one of a series of eight Teacher Education Modules developed by Adams State College Teacher Corps Program. The guide itself consists of 11 modules, the first five of which focus on the mathematical and scientific aspects of music--pitch, tempo, furation, time, and key. These five modules are…