Fertile Ground in Middle Level General Music

"Fertile Ground in Middle Level General Music guides music educators to inspire their students in grades five through eight to engage more deeply with music and "try on" musician-, composer-, listener-, and critic-identities. The Fertile Ground Framework, outlined in this book guides a teachers curricular decision-making by uniting the middle level concept and the National Core Arts Standards. The framework emphasizes the developmental needs and cultural identities of particular students and provides a lens through which the teacher can support these students unique needs. Perspectives of thirteen music educators are combined with lesson plans and other teaching ideas to provide both a theoretical primer and a practical resource for middle level general music"--