The Percussion Band - Mere Noise or Music?
01 Jul 1992-British Journal of Music Education (Cambridge University Press)-Vol. 9, Iss: 2, pp 111-122
TL;DR: The Percussion Band method is part of our methodological heritage as discussed by the authors, and its advocates argued persuasively for its inclusion in kindergarten and school curricula, and the influence of the method in the Australian school curriculum.
Abstract: The Percussion Band method is part of our methodological heritage. The method was carefully based on contemporary educational theory and its advocates argued convincingly for its inclusion in kindergarten and school curricula. Critics of the method were heard from the first. This article seeks to examine the arguments for and against the method, the educational beliefs that underlie these positions and to note the influence of the method in the Australian school curriculum.
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TL;DR: Holmes included Orff materials in teacher inservices in the late 1950s, before she travelled overseas to work with Doreen Hall, Carl Orff and Gunild Keetman as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The introduction of the influential Orff Schulwerk approach to music education in Australia is generally reported as occurring in the late 1960s. However, this was not the earliest encounters with the pedagogy in Australia. Patricia L. Holmes included Orff materials in teacher inservices in the late 1950s, before she travelled overseas to work with Doreen Hall, Carl Orff and Gunild Keetman. Historical research is lacking in many aspects of music education in Australia and this article attempts to chronicle early efforts and add to our understanding of what has been done in the past and shapes our present practices.
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...…may be played to produce different effects, discovers their limitations, and learns how they may be combined, (Holmes, 1966, p. 6) This was very different from the teacher-directed percussion band ensembles that were the norm in Australian elementary schools at that time (Southcott, 1992, 1993)....
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TL;DR: The history of musical education of the under-twelves (MEUT) from its birth in 1949 to its demise in 1983 is investigated in this paper, where the authors consider the following questions: What were the historical roots of MEUT? Why was MEUT formed? What new ideas were developed and debated, and how did these relate to traditional concerns? What accounted for the demise of MEIT?
Abstract: This article traces the history of Musical Education of the Under-Twelves (MEUT) from its birth in 1949 to its demise in 1983. Because it arose from a coalition of pre-war societies and associations it provides a valuable historical link, as well as an example of a later alliance with progressive ideas in education. The paper considers the following questions: What were the historical roots of MEUT? Why was MEUT formed? What new ideas were developed and debated, and how did these relate to traditional concerns? What accounted for the demise of MEUT? Through the investigation of such an association we can better understand how music as a curriculum subject changes over time.
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TL;DR: The possible scope of graduate study, its identification of needs in the teaching-learning situation, and the techniques by which such needs can be investigated usually become known through a more or less cumulative process as the student progresses in his work as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: scholarly pursuit. These materials reflect the particular interests of their authors and are used or not used according to the pattern of graduate study set up by the student and his advisor or his individual teachers. The possible scope of graduate study, its identification of needs in the teaching-learning situation, and the techniques by which such needs can be investigated usually become known through a more or less cumulative process as the student progresses in his work. Much of his satisfaction with
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06 Aug 2009
TL;DR: The Primary Music Handbook as discussed by the authors is for all primary teachers, whether or not they feel they are at all "musical" in the sense that they can and should teach music, just as they teach all other subjects.
Abstract: This Handbook is for all primary teachers, whether or not they feel they are at all 'musical'. The author, Dr Janet Mills, believes that primary class teachers can and should teach music, just as they teach all other subjects. This new edition has been revised and updated to take into account the latest requirements of the National Curriculum in England and Wales. However, all student teachers, teachers and initial teacher trainers, wherever they are working, will find this book a valuable resource, and essential reading. '... lively and honest ... has children and music at heart' Times Educational Supplement '... essential reading for student teachers, teachers and initial teacher trainers ... a valuable resource and a refreshing contribution to the literature of primary music'. Education '... remarkably timely and well conceived ...' British Journal of Music Education
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TL;DR: As the early history of music is one of the most interesting as well as one the most obscure topics connected with the art, an authoritative new investigation like that before us is of real value.
Abstract: MUSIC is now being cultivated in a much more earnest and thorough manner than heretofore, not only as a practical art, but as a matter of theoretical and historical interest, as is evidenced by the late formation of a “Society for the study of the Art and Science of Music,” the object of which is to encourage musical studies of a higher character than those comprised in ordinary musical training. Hence, as the early history of music is one of the most interesting as well as one of the most obscure topics connected with the art, an authoritative new investigation like that before us is of real value.The History of Music. Vol. 1. From the Earliest Records to the Fall of the Roman Empire. By William Chappell. (London: Chappell and Co., 1874.)
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...(Forsyth & Stanford, 1917) The Old Testament was often cited when discussing early musical instruments....
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...Brian Brocklehurst also noted the value of the Band in the lower secondary school - particularly its applicability to adolescent boys to whom singing might have a ' limited appeal' (Brocklehurst, 1962)....
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