Rhythmic Instruction from Square One: A Constructivist Teacher and Her Metronome

Autor/in	Miller, Beth Ann
Titel	Rhythmic Instruction from Square One: A Constructivist Teacher and Her Metronome
Quelle	In: General Music Today, 26 (2012) 1, S.19-26 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1048-3713
DOI	10.1177/1048371312438134
Schlagwörter	Constructivism (Learning); Group Discussion; Music; Music Reading; Measurement Equipment; Time Management; Singing; Teaching Methods; Memorization + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gruppendiskussion; Musik; Musizieren; Messinstrument; Zeitmanagement; Gesang; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Gedächtnistraining
Abstract	Adhering to a constructivist approach, this teacher focused on problem solving and group discussion as she initiated a study of traditional notation. She began with the metronome to make the steady beat less abstract for those students who still learn best through concrete operations. The students were challenged to match magnets of various proportional lengths to the number of metronome beats in each word of a familiar song. The completed colored template provided a visual and tactile illustration of the relative length of each sound. With the music map as a guide, the students replaced the colored lengths with traditional notation and added the time signature. Using the aural, visual, and tactile base provided by the metronome beat and the iconic graphic that looked the way the music sounded seemed to help the students understand symbolic notation on a deeper level than previous lecture modes of instruction. (Contains 5 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10