Meaningful Listening and Virtual Toolbox Part 2

Clinicians:

Dr. Kathy Hickey and Lindsie Hardy

Focused or active listening to music offers opportunities to combine the cognitive and analytical aspect of music learning with the emotional or affective aspect of music. Do your students hear the rhythms and feel the meter when they listen to a piece of music? Is it in major or minor mode? Do you hear the intervals and chords? Can you sing along in solfege or conduct the meter? Do you hear what I hear?  Listening to music interactively is an important step on the continuum of music literacy. “Listening to, analyzing, and describing music” are included in National Standards for Arts and state and local school standards. This first half of the workshop will include materials and teaching strategies for listening in the “real” and “virtual” K-12 classroom.

Speaking of listening… you asked, and we listened!…