Final Flashcards
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Multiple Intelligences: Whose theory?
Howard Gardner
What are the intelligences? (9)
Musical, bodily kinesthetic, visual/spatial, verbal/linguistic, naturalist, existential, logical/mathematical, interpersonal, intrapersonal
Music “Aptitude”
Potential to learn
Music Apititude
Fluctuates until age 9
Music Aptitude: whose theory?
Edwin E. Gordon
Music Aptitude: Informal & Formal instruction
Informal: prior to age 5
Formal: age 6 and up
Benefits of music education (5)
Success in…
1) society
2) school
3) developing intelligence
4) life
Characteristics of a child’s voice
Light, high, small, head voices
Pitch exploration activities
Speech inflection (voice up & back down)
Imitating familiar sounds
Two main procedures for teaching songs
Whole song procedure
Rite procedure
Rote procedure
T:1 S:1
T:2 S:2
T:1&2 S:1&2
Same for 3&4
Then T:whole song, S:whole song
Melody
Group of musical sounds perceived as belonging together
How do melodies move?
Steps, skips, leaps
Disjunct
Skip
Conjunct
Steps
Rhythm
The way the words go
Beat
Recurring pulse in music
Timbre
Quality of sound
Categories of classroom instruments
Woods, metals, skins, special effects, and pitched
How classroom instruments are played
Hit shake scrape
Harmony
2 or more notes occurring at the same time
Tempo
Fast and slow of music
Dynamics
Loud and soft of music
Form
Organization of music