Student
Workbook
Includes photocopy privileges within one school
Teacher’s
Guide
A slim, coil bound volume, which shows each page of the Student Workbook with
teaching instructions and suggestions on each page, as it relates to the student
book.
32
Pages of Transition Materials
4 worksheets for each instrument group, written in standard musical notation,
including photocopy privileges within one school.
Based on the philosophy and methods of the Kodaly this process of music instruction for the older beginner takes Kodaly methodology into the Instrumental Music classroom.
"Kodaly for Band”:
1.
Acknowledges the intellectual capabilities and past experience of the young
band student.
Many beginner band methods seem to assume that the young instrumental musician
knows nothing, has lived in a cultural vacuum and has had no prior musical
experience of any kind. Treating a young student in this manner closes the
“recall” doors in the brain. Any past experience that might be
relevant to the instruction is inaccessible because these ‘recall channels’
have been closed.
2. Is a “planting seeds” or experiential method of learning / teaching. Many concepts of music are experienced. This creates a wealth of “past experience” from which to draw in future years of teaching those students.
3.
Eliminates the transposition element from the beginning band.
After the first four months, students are comfortable with their own instrument
and have some knowledge of the other instruments. Time at the beginning is
not wasted teaching the beginning skills and concepts five or six different
ways, constantly dealing with the various keys of the different instruments
and reminding students of which instructions relate to them.
4. Allows students the opportunity to make musical choices, and to experience the results of those choices immediately.
5. Gives the teacher freedom and flexibility to arrange exciting selections for students, building on the various strengths within each student.
6. Allows for the high achieving and musically gifted students to “soar” in their exploration of music making with their instrument.
