Bannan, Nicholas - First Instruments

Written for music educators from K - 5 onwards, First Instruments is a practical guide to teaching musical ideas through the first instruments we develop in early childhood, laying the foundation for how the collective creativity the book presents can sustain a lifelong commitment to music-making: voice and hand gestures.

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CONTENTS

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
About the Companion Website
Introduction
Part 1: Why Singing?
Chapter 1 Musical foundations
Chapter 2 The anatomy of human music-making
Chapter 3 The instinctive and the learned
Chapter 4 Music as 'the missing link': a distinct form of thinking and feeling
Chapter 5 The aural feedback loop and inner hearing
Chapter 6 The four elements of vocal learning
Chapter 7 Lifelong participation and transmission
Part 2: Why Signing?
Chapter 8 Representation and Communication
Chapter 9 The two hemispheres of the brain
Part 3: Patterns of Leadership and Interaction
Chapter 11 Collective Creativity
Chapter 12 Signs about signs: the notation of Harmony Signing
Chapter 13 Working on Your Own
Chapter 14 Working in Pairs
Chapter 15 Working in Groups
Chapter 16 Working with instrumental classes and bands
Chapter 17 Working with vocal classes and choirs
Part 4: Building creatively on Harmony Signing
Chapter 18 What Are Students Expressing Musically?
Appendices
Bibliography
Index