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Active Listening

The document discusses various techniques for actively engaging children with music during listening activities in the classroom. These include associating music with stories, visual representations, interpretive movement, familiar songs and rhythmic patterns, accompanying music with instruments, listening maps identifying instruments and form, and call charts. The goal is to capture children's interest while listening to classical and other genres of music. Examples provided include works by Saint-Saens, Grieg, Tchaikovsky, and Copland.

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Active Listening

The document discusses various techniques for actively engaging children with music during listening activities in the classroom. These include associating music with stories, visual representations, interpretive movement, familiar songs and rhythmic patterns, accompanying music with instruments, listening maps identifying instruments and form, and call charts. The goal is to capture children's interest while listening to classical and other genres of music. Examples provided include works by Saint-Saens, Grieg, Tchaikovsky, and Copland.

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Ac#ve

Listening in the Music Classroom:

The Many Ways of Engaging Children


while Listening to Music

Story and Visual Representa2on


Aquarium, from Carnival of the Animals,
Saint-Sans, MC 2
[same/dierent, interpre#ve movement]

Familiar Song and Visual


Do-Re-Mi, from The Sound of Music
[melodic direc#on, pitches]

Interpre2ve Movement
Swan, and Elephant, Saint-Sans, from
Carnival of the Animals: MC 2, and MM K

Story about a character and narra2ve to


accompany music
Tubby the Tuba, The ManhaNan Transfer.
[instruments/ensembles]; see also Peter and
the Wolf (Prokoev)

Accompany a piece with instruments


Semper Fidelis, Sousa
[beat, reading a simple instrument score]

Listening map
Circus Music, The Red Pony Suite, Copland, MC 2
[instruments, form]
The Add-on Machine, Chappelle, K, [melodic lines;
os#natos] Making Music Animated Listening Maps.
[DVD 2]
Morning, from Peer Gynt Suite no 1, Grieg, gr. 1,
[melodic contour/ instrumental #mbre]. Making Music
Animated Listening Maps.[DVD 2]

Familiar Rhythm PaHern


March, from The Nutcracker Suite,
Tchaikovsky, MC 2
[rhythm]

Story and Visual Representa2on


The LiNle Train of the Caipira, Bachianas
Brasileiras No. 2, Villa-Lobos, SPM, K, 142
[melody recogni#on]

Call Chart
Troika, from Lieutenant Kije, Prokoev,
[form, instrument recogni#on];

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