The Musical Classroom: Backgrounds, Models, and Skills for Elementary Teaching

Assuming little or no musical background, this volume shows readers how music works, and demonstrates how to convey this understanding to others. It helps readers develop skills in teaching music while offering them introductory experiences in playing and reading music. The book features lots of song material, information on learning instruments, sample lessons, and an accompanying CD. Backgrounds for Teaching Music: Music in the Elementary School; The Elements of Music and Music Concepts; Music-Making Activities; The World of Music; Approaches to Curriculum; Curricular Developments; Planning and Assessing Music Learning. Model Experiences for Teaching Music: For Kindergarten and First Grade; for Second and Third Grades; for Fourth and Fifth Grades. Instruments: Autoharp and the Chromaharp; Guitar and the Ukulele; Keyboard; Recorder; Voice; Songs: 140 songs drawn from a full range of the musical repertoire. For elementary school teachers and others who work with children and music.

Patricia Hackett is Professor of Music Emerita at San Francisco State University. She is the author of The Melody Book: 300 Selections from the World of Music for Piano. Guitar, Autoharp, Recorder, and Voice, Third Edition (Prentice Hall, 1998). Professor Hackett has taught classroom, choral, and keyboard music from elementary through university levels in California, Washington, and Michigan. She has served as a clinician and choral adjudicator in the United States, Japan, and Europe. Her special fields of study included keyboard and choral music, the child voice, and music of Native Americans.

Carolynn A. Lindeman is Professor of Music at San Francisco State University and past president of MENC: The National Association for Music Education (1996-98). Before college teaching, she taught and coordinated elementary classroom music programs in New York and California. Active as a clinician, she has given presentations and workshops throughout the United States and in Canada, Europe, Southeast Asia, Mexico, Israel, and South Africa. Dr. Lindeman is the author of PianoLAb: An Introduction to Class Piano, Fourth Edition (Wadsworth) and more than fifty articles in professional journals. She has served as the series editor for both the Strategies for Teaching and Benchmark Performances in Music series (MENC, 1995-2002).