Sound Thinking - Volume II Developing Musical Literacy

Sound Thinking: Developing Musical Literacy Vol. 2

By Philip Tacka and Micheal Houlahan

Book

178 pages

Music education text which centers its philosophy around the Kodaly Concept (see also Sound Thinking 1, item  816655, available separately). Provides a sequenced curriculum and ideas for teaching songs. Contains more advanced rhythmic and melodic concepts, modal music, harmonic hearing, and guidelines for teaching listening and 20th century music through improvisation. 

Contents:

Part I Expanding the Tonal Repertoire

• The Single Eighth Note and Its Use in American Folk Songs
• Teaching Syncopation
• Teaching Dotted Eighth and Sixteenth Combinations
• Teaching high Do
• Pentatonic Scales
• The Diatonic Scale
• Teaching Fa
• Do Pentachord and Do Hexachord
• Introducing the Flat
• Teaching Ti
• Introducing the Sharp Sign
• Teaching T and Z
• Altered Notes and Forms of the Minor Scale
• Interval Practice 

Part II Upper Level Concepts and Ear Training

• Advanced Rhythmic Concepts
• Introducing 4/4, 3/2 and 4/2 Meter
• Changing Meter
• Eighth and Sixteenth Notes as the Beat
• Compound Time Signatures
• Asymmetric Meters (7/8, 5/8, 5/4)
• Introduction to the Modes
• Musicianship Training for Older Beginners
• Musical Units
• Development of Musical Memory
• Sight-Singing and Interval Practice
• Dictation
• Part Singing
• Musical Units for the Older Beginner 

Part III Other Musical Skills

• The Development of Harmonic Hearing
• The Teaching of Tonic, Subdominant and Dominant Chord Functions
• Triads and Their Functions
• Harmony and Form
• Introducing Typical Harmonic Progressions
• Modulation
• Listening
• Improvisation and Composition
• Improvisation
• Composition Using Twentieth Century Technique
• Music Literature for Children’s Choir

Appendix: Index of Songs and Chants