The Musical Classroom: Backgrounds, Models, and Skills for Elementary Teaching - Softcover

Hackett, Patricia; Lindeman, Carolyn A.

9780130262622: The Musical Classroom: Backgrounds, Models, and Skills for Elementary Teaching

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130262625 ISBN 13: 9780130262622

Publisher: Pearson, 2000

For one-semester, undergraduate-level courses in Music for Children, Music in the Elementary School, Music in Childhood, Elementary Classroom Music, Elementary Music Methods.

Assuming little or no musical background, this text shows students how music works, and demonstrates how to convey this understanding to others. It helps students develop skills in teaching music while offering them introductory experiences in playing and reading music. The text features lots of song material, information on learning instruments, sample lessons, and an accompanying CD.

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About the Author:

Patricia Hackett is Professor of Music Emerita at San Francisco State University. She is the author of The Melody Book: 300 Selections from the World of Music for Piano. Guitar, Autoharp, Recorder, and Voice, Third Edition (Prentice Hall, 1998). Professor Hackett has taught classroom, choral, and keyboard music from elementary through university levels in California, Washington, and Michigan. She has served as a clinician and choral adjudicator in the United States, Japan, and Europe. Her special fields of study included keyboard and choral music, the child voice, and music of Native Americans.

Carolynn A. Lindeman is Professor of Music at San Francisco State University and past president of MENC: The National Association for Music Education (1996-98). Before college teaching, she taught and coordinated elementary classroom music programs in New York and California. Active as a clinician, she has given presentations and workshops throughout the United States and in Canada, Europe, Southeast Asia, Mexico, Israel, and South Africa. Dr. Lindeman is the author of PianoLAb: An Introduction to Class Piano, Fourth Edition (Wadsworth) and more than fifty articles in professional journals. She has served as the series editor for both the Strategies for Teaching and Benchmark Performances in Music series (MENC, 1995-2002).

From the Back Cover:

With the help of The Musical Classroom, students can develop the understandings and skills they need to teach elementary school music. This market-leading text is a comprehensive resource providing backgrounds for teaching music and learning instruments and music fundamentals. It offers forty-eight model experiences for teaching music (kindergarten through grade five), and a song anthology of over 140 songs.

Special features in the Fifth Edition:

A CD of fifty-nine songs and instrumental pieces used in the forty-eight model lessons
National Standards for Music Education listed on the inside back cover of the book
Extensive resource list categorized by topics such as advocacy, jazz, movement, Orff-Schulwerk, Web sites and ten others
Updated information on technology and music software, special learners, and elementary music series
Numerous independent, small, and large group projects for college students to create their own lessons, use the National Standards for Music Education, evaluate music software, assess instructional materials, and much, much more.

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