This book is an ideal tool for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the preeminent music composed for choir.

Teaching Music Through Performance in Choir

Arts & Photography

Frank Abrahams

Anton E. Armstrong, et al

Music

GIA Publications,Inc.

A breakthrough in middle school choral teaching—seven years in the making! Frank Abrahams, Judy Bowers, Paul D. Head, James Jordan, Patrick Liebergen, and Sherri Porterfield compiled and edited by Frank Abrahams and Paul D. Head This book is one of the most comprehensive resources ever published for middle school choir directors—written, researched, and compiled by conductors and educators with a wealth of teaching experience. Teaching Music through Performance in Middle School Choir is ideal for anyone who seeks a deeper understanding of the best choral literature for middle school singers and who wishes to learn from some of the seminal voices in the profession. In Part I, Sherri Porterfield discusses the role of assessment in middle school artistry; Judy Bowers outlines a hierarchy for independent part singing; Patrick Liebergen and Paul D. Head discuss selecting and preparing quality repertoire; James Jordan encourages the inner journey of a young singer; and Frank Abrahams introduces comprehensive musicianship through the lens of critical pedagogy and reciprocal teaching. Part II includes Teacher Resource Guides for 80 of the best works in print for middle school choirs of all ability levels: unison and canons, SSA and SAA, TTB and TTBB, CBB and CCBB, SA, and SATB. Each Teacher Resource Guide includes information about the composer or arranger, composition, historical perspectives, technical considerations, stylistic considerations, musical elements, form and structure analysis, and text guidelines. Each guide also contains valuable suggestions for rehearsing the music with middle school students. Resource Recordings of much of this music is available separately (CD-854). Ultimately, this invaluable book will help middle school conductors move beyond the printed page to musical awareness and understanding.

Teaching Music through Performance in Middle School Choir/G7397

Judy Bowers

James Jordan

Patrick Liebergen

Sherri Porterfield

Paul D. Head

Reference

GIA Publications

This handbook is designed to help music educators develop effective objectives, lesson plans, and assessments for their students, forming the backbone of successful classroom, instrumental, and choral instruction. Taking advantage of current best practices and at the same time meeting today s requirements and mandates, Planning Instruction in Music contains sample objectives, assessment ideas, and lesson plan templates designed to show meaningful instruction in action. Music educators will be able to easily adapt the resources in the handbook to their own classrooms. In Part One, authors Frank Abrahams and Ryan John provide a clearly written, practical framework and at the same time keep focus on the joy of music making. In Part Two, they present sample objectives that connect to broad concepts about rhythm, melody, harmony, form, timbre, and meaning. Sample lesson and rehearsal plans by nineteen experienced teachers comprise Part Three. The result is a hands-on resource that provides music educators with more accountability to administrators in addition to the satisfaction that comes from helping students achieve meaningful learning in music.

Planning Instruction in Music

RYAN, JOHN

G I A Pubns

Case Studies in Music Education Second Edition is about making the journey as a music teacher, about the critical real-world problems and conflicts music teachers face that rarely seem to get any notice in college or graduate school music courses. How should a music teacher balance learning and performing? What is the best way to handle an angry parent? What are the consequences of the grades teachers assign? What are the best ways to discipline students? How should teachers relate to the administrators and to other teachers? What if the school is breaking copyright laws? These are just a few of the issues covered in this book. The emphasis here is not on the solution, but on the process. There are many viable approaches to nearly every obstacle, but before any meaningful long-term solutions can be made, teachers must identify their own personal philosophy of music education and recognize those traits that are admirable in another s style. Case Studies in Music Education Second Edition a book that will engage you and help you become a more effective music teacher.

Case Studies in Music Education Second edition

School education in all disciplines is changing. School teachers—including music educators—now need to be aware of a wide range of issues, including social justice, cultural responsiveness, integrating technology, composition and improvisation, critical thinking, social and emotional learning, and how to foster a community of practice. How do music educators best understand the hot-button issues of today—culture wars, critical race theory, and much more—and at the same time create positive and proactive musical experiences for their students? In A Music Pedagogy for Our Time, Frank Abrahams and his colleagues offer solutions. The authors provide a framework so music teachers can both be aware of these issues and create supportive opportunities for students to learn—without compromising the goals that have been and will continue to be the foundation of school music programs. Each chapter in this book focuses on a topic that defines a problem and then poses potential solutions. This ambitious book advocates for critical pedagogy, reciprocal teaching, and popular music pedagogy, and provides templates to develop lessons and rehearsals that are meaningful and significant to students in the twenty-first century.

A Music Pedagogy for Our Time

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