Music Education Methods Flashcards
Orff
Music is the natural outcome of speech, rhythm and movement
When children discover, invent, improvise and compose their musical experience is intensified
Improvisation plays a major role
Movement games and activities for body awareness, space and time
Percussion instruments, xylophones, metallophones,glockenspiels
Folk music and music composed by children
Suzuki
“Mother tongue approach”
Stresses the importance of parent involvement
Environment can greatly influence development
Exposed to good music at birth
Violin instruction at an early age
Observation then imitation
Children become adept at instrument and then learn to read music.
Playing by memory
Attention to detail
Repetition
Music always playing in the background - form of observation
Kodaly
Listen-sing-understand-read and write-create
Folk songs
Cursing hand signs
Pictures
Movable do
Rhythm symbols and syllables
Singing is the foundation of musical learning
Music education must begin with the very young
Ion corporations games, movement, playing instruments, reading and writing music with singing.
Sequential process for following a child’s natural learning development
Aural-oral-kinestetic
Written-pictoral-abstract
Read-organize
Songs: folk, pentatonic scale emphasized in beginning, chants, songs, lullabies, circle game songs, nursery rhymes
Voice - main instrument, then xylophones, recorders.
Dalcroze
Movement, mind, body
Body is the main instrument
Learn rhythm and structure through movement
Listen and expressing what they hear through spontaneous bodily movement
Solfedge - fixed do
Improvisation - instruments, movements, voice
Foster imagination, creative expression, coordination, flexibility. Concentration, inner hearing, music appreciation, understanding of musical concepts.
