Musical Classroom, The: Backgrounds, Models, and Skills for Elementary Teaching [Spiral-bound]

Patricia Hackett (Author), Carolynn A. Lindeman (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0132628333 | ISBN-13: 978-0132628334 | Publication Date: January 29, 1997 | Edition: 4

Assuming no musical background, this book seeks to provide a fundamental understanding of how music works, and also to demonstrate how to convey this understanding to others. Offering an introduction to playing and reading music, it aims to develop skill in teaching it.

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Assuming no musical background, this text provides a fundamental understanding of how music works and demonstrates how to convey this understanding to others. Coverage develops skills in teaching music while offering introductory experiences in playing and reading music.

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Key Benefit: Assuming no musical background, this book provides a fundamental understanding of how music works and demonstrates how to convey this understanding to others. Key Topics: Coverage develops skills in teaching music while offering introductory experiences in playing and reading music.

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Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 440 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall College Div; 4 edition (January 29, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0132628333
• ISBN-13: 978-0132628334
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,699,620 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars MUSIC EDUCATION IS FOR EVERYONE, June 18, 2000

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RONALD E. SMITH - See all my reviews

This review is from: Musical Classroom, The: Backgrounds, Models, and Skills for Elementary Teaching (Spiral-bound)

Surprisingly, neither the online booksellers nor the publisher, Prentice Hall, refers to the audiocassette of all 60 musical selections in the model lessons for teaching music, which accompanies the Fourth Edition of this book. This is actually one of the main benefits to having it in a classroom or home setting. College instructors use this as a textbook to teach musician and non-musician teachers how to teach the art to elementary school students. Even parents who home school their pre-school and elementary school age children should find this a very accessible resource for teaching all basic musical elements: expressive qualities, melody, rhythm, form and harmony. I wish that I had found out about this resource guide and lesson plan library before returning to teach elementary school music full time after 30 years of pursuing a varied carrier in law, business and "higher" academics. The standardized essay exams for certification in music education should be a snap now. All the right conventional pedagogically sound verbiage is there to satisfy the most melancholy of lesson plan freaks. The cassette tape makes this book more helpful than Music Fundamentals, Methods, and Materials for the Elementary Classroom Teacher by Michon Rozmajzl and Rene Boyer-White(2nd Ed., Longman, 1996). For a complete (and much more expensive) library of childhood music experiences in the schools go to the K through 8 textbooks and teacher aids (ample CD recordings, overhead charts, wall charts, musical play scripts, and several video cassettes) in the Share the Music series published by McGraw-Hill (2nd Ed. 1998).

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Must have for anyone seeking music in the classroom., September 5, 2001

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"baj77" (Cumberland Plateau, TN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Musical Classroom: Backgrounds, Models, and Skills for Elementary Teaching (5th Edition) (Spiral-bound)

This book and accompanying cassette are invaluable! I teach grades K-8 general music and this book has been very useful for lesson plans. There are step by step lesson plans and the cassette provides the music and excerpts needed to present an effective lesson to the children. I've found that these lessons tie in easily with the benchmarks and goals for all of my children. If you do not own this book- buy it. I'm now waiting for an addition to come out that includes my 6-8 grades.

4.0 out of 5 stars great!, March 13, 2011

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