Master of Music / Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance / Frederick Burrack / Prominent elementary music methods like Orff-Schulwerk, Kodaly, Suzuki, Music Learning Theory, and Dalcroze Eurhythmics share a belief in a sound-before-symbol approach: delaying notation instruction in order to first develop audiation, musical vocabularies, and concrete musical experiences. Unfortunately, piano pedagogy has not taken the same journey, with method books continuing to center on reading from the earliest. While piano pedagogy has made great strides as a professional music community, now it must adopt the same sound-before symbol approach of its general music colleagues, making room for experiential and creative activities as a core component of instruction. Through the integration of movement, exploration, and improvisation activities like the included examples, teachers can move beyond strict adherence to the method book, and change their focus from notational literacy to authentic musicianship.

No description available.

Not available / text

The purpose of the study was to determine the composition and characteristics of employer and employee negotiating teams during initial stages of legislated collective bargaining for public schools in Indiana. Study participants included superintendents and trustees and 204 presidents of identified exclusive representatives of bargaining units of Indiana school systems.Participants responded relative to the number, race, sex, previous negotiating experience, and professional employment positions held by negotiating team members; positions held in professional employment, previous negotiating experience, race, and sex of negotiating team spokesmen; remuneration of negotiating team members and spokesmen; and extent of use, position held on negotiation teams, basis of selection, previous negotiating experience, amount and basis of remuneration of outside experts in negotiations.Findings of the study were:1. Teacher negotiating teams were larger than teams representing boards of education. Teachers' teams increased in number as pupil enrollment of school systems increased.2. Almost all negotiating teams had one individual identified as negotiating team spokesman.3. School board member participation on employer negotiating teams increased as pupil enrollment of school systems decreased.4. Slightly more than 25 per cent of all superintendents participated on employer negotiating teams. Only one superintendent served as spokesman in school districts serving 12,000 or more students.5. The number of principals serving as spokesman increased as the pupil enrollment of school systems decreased.6. The number of business managers serving as spokesmen increased as the pupil enrollment of school systems increased.7. Assistant Superintendents for Personnel and/or Directors of Employee Relations served as spokesman only in districts serving 6,000 or more pupils.8. Attorneys served as outside experts on one-half of employer negotiating teams.9. Negotiating team membership reflected all segments of employer and employee groups.10. Slightly less than one-half of team spokesmen reported they had no previous negotiating experience. Almost 100 per cent of team spokesmen for school systems with 6,000 or fewer students were inexperienced.11. The years of previous negotiating experience of outside experts increased as the pupil enrollment of school systems increased.12. Almost 100 per cent of employer negotiating team spokesmen outside experts and team members were white males.13. Slightly more than three-fourths of employee negotiating team spokesmen were males.14. Employee negotiating team membership was composed of about one-half white males and one-half white females.15. Almost 100 per cent of the outside experts and spokesmen for employee negotiating teams were white males.16. Remuneration of outside experts ranged from $23,000 to $500. Per diem compensation ranged from $300 to $100. Per hour compensation ranged from $55 to $20.17. Almost one-half of employer team outside experts were paid on a per hour basis plus expenses.18. Outside experts serving employee negotiating teams were reimbursed in salary by state and/or national teacher organizations.Size of school district is a major factor in determining the composition and characteristics of negotiating teams.The amount or basis of remuneration paid to outside experts, spokesmen, or team members is not positively related to size of school system.Large amounts of tax dollars are being expended to carry out mandated negotiations.Employer negotiations are conducted by white males. Employee negotiations spokesmen are predominately white males.As of 1975 the status of negotiations in Indiana is one of attempting to implement a process; therefore, the level of sophistication in negotiations is minimal.Management personnel have lacked adequate preparation for negotiations and consequently have turned to outside experts until competent in-house negotiators are developed.Teacher groups rely heavily upon assistance provided through national networks of teacher organizations.

Thesis (master's in Music)--University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 55-59).

The diploma thesis examines Orff Schulwerk as a system of thoughts applicable to music education and its use at General František Fajtl DFC Primary School in Prague 9. It briefly introduces Carl Orff as a pedagogue in the first part. It further describes the formation of Orff Schulwerk in Germany, its basic thoughts, its adaptation in Czechoslovakia and the birth of the Czech Orff's School. This thesis focuses in detail on a school, where music education is taught according to principles of Orff Schulwerk - General František Fajtl DFC Primary School in Letňany. Several chapters are also devoted to the founder of this concept Lenka Pospíšilová and her other projects. The last part of the thesis deals with the teaching of music education in classes with musical specialisation in the first and second grade of this primary school. Based on the research, it compares the teaching process of the two first-year classes with and without musical specialisation in the school year 2016-2017.

This thesis demonstrates how an interdisciplinary, organic music program built on the theory of Alfred North Whitehead and the practice of Carl Orff fosters freedom, imagination, creative expression, discipline, and wisdom so that children may learn about themselves, others, and the living world through an interdisciplinary approach to music. The thesis also addresses the failure of music educators to fully recognize and embrace the compatibility of Orff and Whiteheads work and the subsequent deficiency of school systems to provide aesthetic experiences through elementary music programs that develop wisdom.<p> The thesis underlines the importance of education that enables balanced growth in children; provides an historical perspective on the factors that contributed to the development of Orffs Schulwerk; emphasizes the importance of arts education in Whiteheads educational philosophy; and provides a constructive proposal for a music education program utilizing the philosophy and practice of Whitehead and Orff. The potentiality for music education and a process-based approach combining the work of Orff and Whitehead designed to nurture growth and wisdom and help children live life to the fullest, are underscored.

This thesis demonstrates how an interdisciplinary, organic music program built on the theory of Alfred North Whitehead and the practice of Carl Orff fosters freedom, imagination, creative expression, discipline, and wisdom so that children may learn about themselves, others, and the living world through an interdisciplinary approach to music. The thesis also addresses the failure of music educators to fully recognize and embrace the compatibility of Orff and Whiteheads work and the subsequent deficiency of school systems to provide aesthetic experiences through elementary music programs that develop wisdom.<p> The thesis underlines the importance of education that enables balanced growth in children; provides an historical perspective on the factors that contributed to the development of Orffs Schulwerk; emphasizes the importance of arts education in Whiteheads educational philosophy; and provides a constructive proposal for a music education program utilizing the philosophy and practice of Whitehead and Orff. The potentiality for music education and a process-based approach combining the work of Orff and Whitehead designed to nurture growth and wisdom and help children live life to the fullest, are underscored.

This creative project adapted the basic elements of the teaching methods of Zoltan Kodaly and Carl Orff to the teaching of the recorder. The resulting recorder teaching method includes the sequential presentation of musical concepts and skills of the Kodaly approach, and the philosophies and techniques for developing creativity of the Orff approach.The method consists of forty-one graduated phases of development accompanied by appropriate song materials and suggestions for varied creative activities included for the purpose of providing practice and experience with the musical concepts presented in the lessons.

Thesis work is focused on possibilities of the practical use of the elements of Orff Schulwerk in the Czech general education and is divided into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part is given to the person Carl Orff, Schulwerku in general, the Czech Schulwerku, music education and Czech Orff of the company. Readers are briefly presented biographical data personality Carl Orff, his teaching and the composer's activity. Furthermore, it is acquainted with the history of the Schulwerku, its principles, basic elements and metodology. Can be in the thesis work a glimpse of the mission of the music education depending on the Orff Schulwerk. At the end of the theoretical part is a mention of the seminars of the Czech Orff of the company. In the practical part the reader is acquainted with the methodology, conduct, results and a summary of the research the use of Orff´s set of instrumentars in primary schools in Czech Budejovice and the surrounding area. Here are the insights and individual suggestions for the use of musical instruments in music education. The last section is devoted to examples of educational games using Orff´s instrumentars.