MUSIC INSTRUCTION

Shouldn't we be a little more respectful of contemporary music, especially in our music classrooms? This is what this article is about. We need to allow contemporary composers a chance to showcase what they have and to teach our students something.

This provides an introduction as to how general music should be taught at the middle school and high school level.

Brief discussion of singing in early American church music.

A short description on what could be done in the classroom for elementary music.

Budget constraints and core-subject testing regimes are negatively impacting music education programs around the country. The current situation in several areas is described and the benefits of retaining quality music education are listed.

Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the greatest music composers of all time, is the focus of this collection of free music lesson plans and resources for homeschooling kids. All of these resources are easy to teach, and require little or no preparation.

This article discusses the philosophy of immersion in music from birth and the role it plays in learning to play a musical instrument.

Music notation was still in the midst of an evolutionary process when an outside factor affected that process: the invention of the printing press. The most important factor in finalizing note shapes, signs, symbols and so on was early music printing.

Here's a list of the best local independent music stores in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Northern Virginia.

Fretboard Mastery by Troy Stetina is a guide for guitarists to better understand the guitar neck. It also provides a practical guide to music theory with the guitarist in mind.

Stereotypes, misconceptions, and the tendency to interpret research too broadly have tainted musical psychology, which analyzes how different musical aspects react with the behavioral and emotional aspects of individuals

Teaching children a love of music and arts early in their education has a great impact on how they learn throughout their life.

One technique that has been recently given attention is using music to improve the students' ability to learn a second language.

The Cognitive theory is concerned with the development of one's thought processes or basically how the mind acquires knowledge.

A look at the educational theories of Zolton Kodaly.

Regardless if you're musically inclined or not, odds are that you know someone who is.

This article discusses the advantages and complications of using music as a way make people comfortable with learning English.

Music School in Scarsdale, New York has been offering classical music instruction for 65 years.

Music has always been an integral part of my life. There are memories that I have draw upon that are powered by the music of those time periods.

Music and reading are both means of communicating. When children begin to learn language, it is processed in the brain first as sounds. The love of music can make your child smarter by improving their reading skills.

Summer might be the time for swimming, sailing or baseball. But for some kids its the time to put everything else aside and concentrate on the music they love