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American Music Teacher
A bimonthly journal focused on music education. Provides articles, news of the field, information, reviews and regular columns designed to inform, educate and challenge music teachers, and to foster excellence in music programs. For music educators.
Articles from Vol. 52, No. 2, October-November
2001-2002 Foundation Contributors
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MTNA FOUNDATION Legacy Society Brian K. Chung Frances Clark * Annette & Dick Conklin W. Earl Cox * Jerry Davidson Evelyn Lindblad Folland R. Wayne Gibson Louise Goss Aart and Robert Hennekes Margaret S. Lorince Iris and Morty Manus...
Ages and Stages: Is That the Same Child I Taught Last Year? the Adolescent Student. (Pedagogy Saturday VI)
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Kim Dolgin, speaker It is not unusual for children reaching adolescence to change in ways psychological as well as physical. The same hormonal changes that make them grow taller and sexually mature trigger brain growth that leads to cognitive...
Ages and Stages: Is That the Same Child I Taught Last Year? the College Student. (Pedagogy Saturday VI)
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Judith Piercy, speaker When thinking about teaching, a fundamental question is, "Who are these students anyway?" As a college administrator, each year the students entering my university are the same age (18-22), while I am a year older. Can...
Ages and Stages: Is That the Same Child I Taught Last Year? the Elementary-Aged Student. (Pedagogy Saturday VI)
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Donna Brink Fox, speaker Early childhood is my current area of specialization as a music teacher, and it is often said that the early childhood years are the "getting ready" phase of development and learning. If that's the case, then the middle...
Ages and Stages: Is That the Same Child I Taught Last Year? the Very Young Child. (Pedagogy Saturday VI)
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Kenneth K. Guilmartin, speaker The following comments apply, I think, to any age, but especially to children up to age 8 or 9. Why include these older ages in an article about the "very young" child? Because it's important to understand that...
Ages and Stages: What Do You See? Adolescents and College Students. (Pedagogy Saturday VI)
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Edward Adelson, moderator A distinguished panel of three music educators and two child development experts were brought together during an afternoon panel discussion to react to a series of video clips of studio teachers interacting with adolescent...
Ages and Stages: What Do You See? the Young Child and Elementary-Aged Students. (Pedagogy Saturday VI)
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Martha Baker-Jordan, moderator This panel discussed video clips of lessons taught to young and elementary-aged students. The excerpts were reviewed, in advance, by Martha Baker-Jordan, panel moderator, as well as Kenneth Guilmartin and Donna...
Berceuse, Pour Deux Pianos
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by Roman Maciejewski. PWM/Theodore Presser Company (588 N. Gulph Rd., King of Prussia, PA 19406), 2000. 10 pp., $11.95. Advanced. The Berceuse is a wonderful introduction to the piano music of Roman Maciejewski, an undeservedly little-known composer....
Cecile Chaminade: Piano Music
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by Cecile Chaminade. Dover Publications (31 E. 2nd St., Mineola, NY 11501), 2001. 59pp., $7.95. Advanced. Cecile Chaminade (1857-1944) was a renowned French pianist and prolific composer, known especially for her 200-plus short piano pieces. ...
Celebrating Certification: Why Should MTNA Have a Professional Certification Program? the MTNA Board of Directors Responds
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The MTNA Certification program provides perhaps the single best indicator to our society that MTNA and its members view the teaching of music as a profession requiring not only dedication but also intense preparation. --R. Wayne Gibson, president...
Cityscapes: Eight Later Elementary Level Piano Solos
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by Eric Baumgartner. The Willis Music Company (P.O. Box 548, Florence, KY 41022-0548), 2001. 20 pp., $4.95. Late elementary. Honking horns and busy city streets, shimmering city lights and the excitement at a baseball game or a parade all come...
East Central Division Competitions. (2003 Division Competitions and Conferences)
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Milkin University Decatur, Illinois January 17-19, 2003 East Central Division President: Eileen Keel, 6550 Old River Trl., Lansing, MI 48917; (517) 321-7285; keelstudio@aol.com President-elect: Carol Winborne, NCTM, 1129 Algoma...
Eastern Division Competitions. (2003 Division Competitions and Conferences)
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Elizabethtown College Department of Fine and Performing Arts Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania January 10-12, 2003 Eastern Division President: Debra Ronning, NCTM, 102 Meadowbrook Ln., Elizabethtown, PA 17022; home: (717) 367-7871, work:...
Essential Keyboard Duets, Vol. 2
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selected and edited by Gayle Kowalchyk and E. L. Lancaster. Alfred Publishing Co., Inc. (16320 Roscoe Blvd., Van Nuys, CA 91410), 2002. 160pp., $15.95. Intermediate--late intermediate. How often do you find twenty-five compositions by twenty-four...
Exploring Learning Styles: Developing a Flexible Teaching Approach. (Pedagogy Saturday VI)
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The sixth annual Pedagogy Saturday was titled "Exploring Learning Styles: Developing A Flexible Teaching Approach." This all-day event was devoted to an in-depth study of how different students learn, and how to reflect those differences in our...
Exploring Learning Styles: Developing a Flexible Teaching Approach: Reflections on Pedagogy Saturday VI
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If only one size did fit all.... If only teaching were as easy as one plus one equals two--a mathematical problem with a single solution. But teaching involves people, not numbers, and while numbers can be plugged into formulae to yield predictable...
Expressive Etudes, Book Two
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compiled and edited by Suzanne W. Guy. The FJH Music Company, Inc. (2525 Davie Rd., Ste. 360, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33317-7424), 2002. 31 pp., $6.50. Late elementary-intermediate. "Does the music world need yet another collection of etudes?" I...
Hercule En Dieu
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by Carl Ditters Von Dittersdorf and edited by Allen Badley. Artaria Editions/Theodore Presser Company (588 N. Gulph Rd., long of Prussia, PA 19406), 2O00. 31 pp., $28. Intermediate--late intermediate. Artaria Editions (Wellington, New Zealand)...
Instruction: To Compose without the Least Knowledge of Music So Much German Waltzer of Schleifer as One Pleases, by Throwing a Certain Number with Two Dice
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by W. A. Mozart and Edited by Fritz Spiegl. Emerson Edition/Theodore Presser Company (588 N. Gulph Rd., King of Prussia, PA 19406), 2000. 6 pp. piano, $14.95. This little musical curiosity, supposedly by W. A. Mozart, was thought to be a spurious...
Introducing the Animal Kingdom-It's a Jungle out There! (Pedagogy Saturday VI)
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Keith Golay, speaker If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far-away.--Henry David Thoreau Science tells us that people...
Keeping America's Musical Future Alive. (Dear Reader)
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In 1989, a significant event took place in the life of MTNA. A "new and improved" MTNA FOUNDATION was chartered. The new MTNA FOUNDATION possesses a broader vision than its predecessor. In fact, since 1989, the process has been underway to "reinvent"...
Kindling the Spark: Recognizing and Developing Musical Talent
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by Joanne Haroutounian. Oxford University Press (198 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016), 2002. 366pp., $65. In her book Kindling the Spark: Recognizing and Developing Musical Talent, Joanne Haroutounian takes the reader on a quest to answer some...
'Le Boeuf Sur le Toit' for Piano, Four Hands, Op. 58 (the Nothing Doing Bar)
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by Darius Milhaud. Dover Publications (31 E. 2nd St., Mineola, NY 11501), 2002. 56pp., $10.95. Advanced. A most welcome addition to Dover's publications is Darius Milhaud's duet version of Le Boeuf sur le Toit. This score, which has been difficult...
Little Children's Suite
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by Tadeusz Baird. PWM/Theodore Presser Company (588 N. Gulph Rd., King of Prussia, PA 19406), 2000. 5 pp. violin, 10 pp. piano; $16.95. Early intermediate. Little Children's Suite by Tadeusz Baird is a short, four-movement work for the advanced...
Looking at the Record. (Composer Commissioning)
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One of the established goals of the MTNA Composer Commissioning Advisory Committee is to improve visibility, awareness and participation in the MTNA Composer Commissioning Program. When the committee met last March at the MTNA National Conference...
Looks like an Ape to Me! (Pedagogy Saturday VI)
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Michelle Conda, commentator I love watching the behaviors of others. I think that is what we find thrilling about teaching--watching our students react and grow. However, I know there are many times I witnessed a student's frustration as well...
Lunchtime Round Table Discussions
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Following the morning sessions that explored the topic of learning styles, attendees met over lunch to share ideas and engage in further dialogue. The exchange was lively and enthusiastic, and response to the morning sessions was very positive overall....
MTNA Foundation
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October 2002 Dear Members of MTNA: Fall, with its beautiful color palette, always brings a sense of new beginnings for each of us. The terrible events of last fall remind us that we must seize opportunities to make the most of every day, to...
Music for Everyone-Successful. (in Unison)
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At this writing, I've recently returned from a very productive meeting of your Board of Directors, and I would like to take this opportunity to tell you about some of the more significant details and decisions. We now are just over halfway through...
No Dumb Students: Teaching the Non-Intuitive Student. (Pedagogy Saturday VI)
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Opening Session Report Peter Jarjisian, commentator As director of choral activities at Ohio University and a church choir director as well, I work most often with groups--ensembles of singers and instrumentalists--but also one-to-one, coaching...
Northwest Division Competitions. (2003 Division Competitions and Conferences)
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Boise State University Boise, Idaho January 17-19, 2003 Northwest Division President: Marilyn Brossard, NCTM, 11103 View Ridge Dr., Burlington, WA 98233; phone/fax (360) 757-0587; K_Brossard@msn.com Immediate Past President: Ann ...
Pauses That Refresh. (College Faculty Forum)
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I am writing on a hot and lazy summer day, but as you read, the leaves will have begun to turn, the days have become noticeably shorter, and we will have been back at work for a month or more. Arrangements for lessons and classes are in place...
Polyphony. (Professional Resources)
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Q: Should teachers assign piano literature based on hand size? A: Hand size with respect to performing piano literature is an issue affecting a large percentage of all pianists, especially young children whose performance ability may increase...
Southern Division Competitions. (2003 Division Competitions and Conferences)
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University of Southern Mississippi Hattiesburg, Mississippi January 24-26, 2003 President: Roy Wylie, NCTM, 101 Goodwin Hall, Auburn University, AL 36849-5420; home: (334) 749-1220, work: (334) 844-3165, fax: (334) 844-3168; ...
The Best of Stevie Wonder
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by Todd Lowry. Hal Leonard Corporation (7777 W. Bluemound Rd., P.O. Box 13819, Milwaukee, WI 53213), 2002. 31 pp., $22.95. Intermediate. The Best of Stevie Wonder is a new publication of Hal Leonard's Keyboard Signature Licks featuring such artists...
The Possibilities of Time II: Flow. (Independent Music Teachers Forum)
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Forty years ago Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi began his study of why people do things that have no extrinsic rewards. Contrary to models of human behavior based on survival, libido, fame, status or prestige, he observed that many people found profound...
West Central Division Competitions. (2003 Division Competitions and Conferences)
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Augustana College Humanities Center Sioux Falls, South Dakota January 10-12, 2003 West Central Division President: Janice Wenger, NCTM, University of Missouri-Columbia, School of Music, 138 Fine Arts Bldg., Columbia, MO 65211; home:...
What's New in Pedagogy Research? (Professional Resources)
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Everyone knows that positive comments in the lesson are better than negative or critical responses, right? Well, maybe not! Robert Duke and Jacqueline Henninger recently published a study titled "Teachers' Verbal Corrections and Observers' Perceptions...
You've Got Rhythm: Read Music Better by Feeling the Beat
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by Anna Dembska and Joan Harkness. Flying Leap Music (1348 71st St., Brooklyn, NY 11228), 2002. 126 pp., $27.95 plus shipping. One seldom encounters a book of interest to all musicians--this may be one of those unusual books. The concept of the...
