MENC National Standards for Music Education
- Singing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
- Performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
- Improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments.
- Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines.
- Reading and notating music.
- Listening to, analyzing, and describing music.
- Evaluating music and music performances.
- Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.
- Understanding music in relation to history and culture.
Orff-Schulwerk- Developed by composer Carl Orff, Orff-Schulwerk is a music method designed to introduce music in a way that is natural for children. Using poems, chants, games, songs, body percussion, and Orff melody instruments, students learn to listen, experience, and create music before writing it down. Orff-Schulwerk introduces music similarly to the way we introduce language. Students learn to speak it before they learn to read and write it.
Kodaly
- Zoltan Kodaly's method focuses on helping every student become musically literate. Students make use of Curwen hand signs and solfege (Do, Re, Mi, etc) to represent the various degrees of the musical scale, allowing them to kinesthetically experience pitch, developing a strong tonal center. Students also make use of syllables to develop their sense of rhythm. Syllables such as ta and ti-ti are used to enable students to read rhythms. Musical shorthand, visual representations, and echoes are also used.
Dalcroze- Emile Jaques-Dalcroze developed this method that focuses on our innate ability for musical expression. This method links music to movement, encouraging expression through dance, creative movement, and drama. Students also use Solfege (Do, Re, Mi, etc) to represent scale degrees and develop their inner ear. Improvisation is encouraged in movement as well as vocal and instrumental settings.
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