What is Music Literacy? attempts to redefine music literacy with a more expansive meaning than is commonly in use, and to articulate the potential impact of these ideas on music teaching practice. The notion of music literacy has involved the ability to read and write music scores. However, this understanding does not extend theory to identify all music texts, nor to offer a thorough treatment of what impact an expanded notion of music literacy might have on music instruction in the classroom and in ensembles. This book provides a formal, expansive redefinition of music literacy. The author offers practical ideas for attending more effectively to music literacy in classroom instruction. The book highlights common elements in the music classroom: the music score, the conductor, surrounding ensemble members, the musical model, the musical instrument, and presentations/recordings. It also describes four orientations that correspond to the National Core Music Standards (2014) and that characterize humans’ interactions with music: creator, performer, responder, and connector. What is Music Literacy? uses these orientations, along with a focus on authentic music texts and literacies, to present literacy-based guidelines for music education along with numerous vignettes that describe actual literacy instructional events.

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In Line by Line: Progressive Staff Method Arrangements for Elementary Music Literacy, author Stephanie L. Standerfer harnesses years of pedagogical expertise in a practical guide that promotes music learning by experience rather than imitation and memorization. Using well-known songs and instrumental accompaniments, this book contains a new practical method for teaching music literacy. The book's lesson plans first introduce concepts to the ear and body that allow students to internalize the sound and feeling before learning the symbol. Through this method, students learn and understand songs without the teacher modeling them and develop musicianship skills in the process. The arrangements include instrument parts for the typical complement of melodic instruments including glockenspiels, xylophones, and metallophones. Each arrangement includes at least one instrument part for more advanced learners, and one or more parts for students at lower skill levels. Music educators then complete individual lesson plans by teaching instrumental parts, again from notation instead of imitation. In this method, each song is taught over five to seven class periods as short segments of a regular class meeting, leaving time for other musical experiences such as listening lessons or folk dances. Taking every student into consideration, Line by Line also suggests ways to address specific student needs for those who need more time to process or who have specific diagnosed issues.

Suitable for exam boards: Edexcel, AQA, OCR, WJEC. The AS Music Literacy Workbook is designed to develop students’ notational skills to the level necessary to succeed in their AS studies and beyond. With an emphasis on learning by doing, this workbook explains the notation of a wide variety of instrumental techniques and includes a whole chapter devoted to score reading, with numerous exercises encouraging students to cross-reference their knowledge. Author Rebecca Berkley is a freelance writer, musician and music education consultant. After starting her career as a music teacher in secondary schools, she became a lecturer in music education at the University of Southampton and the Institute of Education, University of London. Her PhD thesis focused on how GCSE students learn to compose, and how best to teach them.

Going beyond the music-literature link, The Music and Literacy Connection looks at the skills that are parallel in music learning and text reading. This new book by respected experts in the field can be used by music advocates, prekindergarten through third-grade teachers, classroom teachers, music teachers, and preservice teachers to: discuss the role arts play in literacy, show how music teachers are reading teachers and reading teachers are music teachers, learn about the auditory and visual processes used in both language and music learning, enhance reading strategies using musical activities, help students demonstrate understanding of music through reading activities, help reading comprehension using musical activities, use writing in the music classroom. Book jacket.