Mastering Primary Music

✍ Scribed by Ruth Atkinson

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 247
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Mastering Primary Music introduces the primary music curriculum and helps trainees and teachers learn how to plan and teach inspiring lessons that make music learning irresistible.
Topics covered include:
• Current developments in music
• Music as an irresistible activity
• Music as a practical activity
• Skills to develop in music
• Promoting curiosity
• Assessing children in music
• Practical issues
This guide includes examples of children’s work, case studies, readings to reflect upon and reflective questions that all help to exemplify what is considered to be best and most innovative practice. The book draws on the experience of a leading professional in primary music, Ruth Atkinson, to provide the essential guide to teaching music for all trainee primary teachers.

✦ Table of Contents

Title page
Copyright page
Contents
List of figures
Series editors' foreword
How to use this book
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1 An Introduction to Primary Music
Chapter objectives
What is primary music?
What does it mean to be musical?
Why should music be part of the primary curriculum?
Summary
Recommended reading
Chapter 2 Current Developments in Primary Music
Chapter objectives
What is the state of primary music?
What does the research say?
How can teachers contribute positively to children’s enjoyment of music? 
Summary
Recommended reading
Chapter 3 Music as an Irresistible Activity
Chapter objectives
Introduction
Why doesn’t every adult find music irresistible?  
Why is joining in collective music-making irresistible?  
What is curiosity and how does it help make music irresistible? 
How can teachers make primary music irresistible?
Summary
Recommended reading
Chapter 4 Music as a Practical Activity
Chapter objectives
Introduction
Why should music be a practical activity?
What counts as a practical activity in primary music?
How does talk develop music as a practical activity? 
Summary
Recommended reading
Chapter 5 Skills to Develop in Music
Chapter objectives
Introduction
What are listening skills?
What are singing skills?
What are playing skills?
What are notation skills?
What skills should I start with?
Summary
Recommended reading
Chapter 6 Children’s Ideas – Promoting Creativity
Chapter objectives
What is creativity in primary music?
Why should children be creative? 
How can teachers promote children’s creativity?  
Summary
Recommended reading
Chapter 7 Assessing Children in Music
Chapter objectives
Introduction
What does assessment look like in primary music?
Why should children be assessed?
How can children be assessed?
Summary
Recommended reading
Chapter 8 Practical Issues
Chapter objectives
What is important to consider when planning primary music?
How can I make sure every child feels included and valued?
Why should I draw on the environment, the social world and other subjects in primary music?
What do I do about the lack of instruments in my school?
How can I improve my own singing?
Recommended reading
Bibliography
Index