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

Lindeman, Carolynn

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9780205687459: Musical Classroom: Backgrounds, Models, and Skills for Elementary Teaching

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ISBN 10: 0205687458 ISBN 13: 9780205687459

Publisher: Routledge, 2009

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With this Eighth Edition, The Musical Classroom celebrates thirty years as a leading resource for future and in-service teachers as they engage children in the exciting world of music! Teachers, with the help of this user-friendly text, can develop the understandings and skills needed to teach elementary school music. The forty-four model lessons are the centerpiece to the book's long-lasting success. A collection of over 170 children's songs from around the world; instructional information for learning to play the recorder, keyboard, guitar, and Autoharp(TM); and the theoretical, pedagogical, and practical backgrounds needed for reaching all learners complete the comprehensive resource of The Musical Classroom. Note: This is the standalone book. If you want the accompanying audio CD, order the ISBN 9781138656703, which is available for separate sale.

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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 MENG: The National Association for Music Education. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the International Society for Music Education. Before college teaching, she taught and coordinated elementary classroom music programs. Active as a speaker and clinician, she has given presentations 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, Fifth Edition (Wadsworth, 2004) and more than fifty articles in professional journals. She was a member of the National Standards for Music Education Task Force and served as series editor for 16 publications (MENC,19952003) related to implementing and assessing the national standards.

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With this Eighth Edition, " The Musical Classroom" celebrates thirty years as a leading resource for future and in-service teachers as they engage children in the exciting world of music! Teachers, with the help of this user-friendly text, can develop the understandings and skills needed to teach elementary school music. The forty-four model lessons, with all the music recorded on the accompanying CD, are the centerpiece to the book's long-lasting success. A collection of over 170 children's songs from around the world; instructional information for learning to play the recorder, keyboard, guitar, and Autoharp(TM); and the theoretical, pedagogical, and practical backgrounds needed for reaching all learners complete the comprehensive resource of "The Musical Classroom."

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