Teaching General Music: Approaches, Issues, and Viewpoints [Paperback]

General music is informed by a variety of teaching approaches and methods. These pedagogical frameworks guide teachers in planning and implementing instruction. Established approaches to teaching general music must be understood, critically examined, and possibly re-imagined for their potential in school and community music education programs.
Teaching General Musicbrings together the top scholars and practitioners in general music education to create a panoramic view of general music pedagogy and to provide critical lenses through which to view these frameworks. The collection includes an examination of the most prevalent approaches to teaching general music, including Dalcroze, Informal Learning, Interdisciplinary, Kod?ly, Music Learning Theory, Orff Schulwerk, Social Constructivism, and World Music Pedagogy. In addition, it provides critical analyses of general music and teaching systems, in light of the ways children around the world experience music in their lives. Rather than promoting or advocating for any single approach to teaching music, this book presents the various approaches in conversation with one another. Highlighting the perceived and documented benefits, limits, challenges, and potentials of each,TeachingGeneralMusicoffers myriad lenses through which to re-read, re-think, and re-practice these approaches.

Introduction
Carlos R. Abril and Brent M. Gault
1. Untangling General Music Education: Concept, Theory, and Practice
Carlos R. Abril
Approaches
2. Orff Schulwerk: Releasing and Developing the Musical Imagination
Amy Beegle and Judith Bond
3. Teaching Music with a Social Constructivist Vision of Learning
Jackie Wiggins
4. Kod?ly-Inspired Teaching: A Bridge to Musical Fluency
Brent M. Gault
5. World Music Pedagogy: Where Music Meets Culture in Classroom Practice
Patricia Shehan Campbell
6. Learning with Digital Media and Technology in Hybrid Music Classrooms
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