For children learning instruments like guitar, piano and others, these books offer basic music instruction.
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These 48 lessons are designed to awaken an "urge to create" in your students and to bring hidden talents to the surface as they compose new music with each lesson. Lessons include completing a song, folk songs, rythm songs, building songs from a motif, rounds, calypso songs, instrumental solo, theme and variations.
Activities in Musical Composition has been tested successfully with general music students in junior high school. This set of masters should be used in sequence if the students are to get the most out of this course. These masters are appropriate to numerous music education courses, including mini- or full-semester classes in music theory, music appreciation, music survey, general music, and gifted programs.
The emphasis in education today is on basic competency in all academic subjects. Now is a very appropriate time to stress teaching the basics in music. Learning to compose music is a unique way to involve students in a hands on experience that will improve their note-reading ability and increase their understanding of the fundamentals of music. The end product is a new piece of music created by the students themselves, tangible evidence of their musical accomplishments. |
