Abril, Carlos R. - General Music

General Music: Dimensions of Practice is a practical guide for music teachers and teaching artists. It offers many useful and innovative ideas for performing, connecting, creating, and responding to music in the classroom. Each chapter focuses on a particular area of music teaching and learning, including: songwriting, composing, improvising, singing, moving, playing, listening, analyzing, contextualizing, and connecting.

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CONTENTS

1. General Music as Holistic Music Education
Carlos R. Abril and Brent M. Gault
Performing
2. Singing in the Elementary General Music Classroom
Sarah J. Bartolome
3. Playing with Orff and Classroom Instruments
Amy Beegle
4. Participatory Music Making with Fretted Instruments
Martina Vasil
5. Pedagogical Approaches in Modern Band
Gareth Dylan Smith and Warren Gramm
6. Teaching and Learning World Music
Karen Howard
Connecting
7. Teaching Music for Human Connections
Carlos R. Abril and Loneka W. Battiste
8. Fostering Historical Empathy through Music, Art, and Poetry
Janet Revell Barrett
9. Connecting with Repertoire: On the Efficacy of Folksong
Jacqueline Kelly-McHale
10. Toward School and Community Musical Engagements
Kari K. Veblen
11. How Do We Connect? Music Education in Online and Hybrid Learning
Nyssa M. Brown
Creating
12. Frames for Improvising
Una MacGlone
13. New Ways to Think about Composing and Producing
Katherine Strand and Michele Kaschub
14. Demystifying Songwriting
Kat Reinhart
15. Digital Media, Digital Technology, and Participatory Culture
Ann C. Clements
Responding
16. Movement: An Integral Component of General Music
Marja-Leena Juntunen
17. Engaging Learners in Active Music Listening
Brent M. Gault
18. Perceiving and Responding through Analysis
Andrew S. Paney and Nathan O. Buonviri
Index