Threading the Concept: Powerful Learning for the Music Classroom

This book offers a pedagogical approach that emphasizes focus on conceptual learning that is sensory oriented. From the musical concepts we teach melody, harmony, rhythm, and form the teacher targets one concept per lesson (e.g., melody) and provides learning experiences in singing, listening, performing, moving, reading/writing, and improvising/composing that are all focused on only that concept.

Debra Gordon Hedden is an associate professor of music education at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. She founded the University of Kansas Youth Chorus (KUYC). Hedden served as past chair of MENC's Society for General Music, as a member of the Ad Hoc Committee on Undergraduate Curriculum Reform for the Orff-Schulwerk Association, and as a member of the editorial boards for the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education and the Journal of Music Teacher Education.