Primary General Music Analysis

There were many different types of methods that we used in primary general music methods this year. Those included all the way from Kodály, Orff-Schulwerk, Dalcroze, Gordon Music Learning Theory, and eclectic. Kodály was a really big part of primary general music methods. It is widely used in everything we do. It was implemented with anything rhythmic. Which includes everything from the nursery rhymes to the most complex song in the song collection. You would use Kodály rhythmic syllables to teach rhythms to kids. The syllables went along with all the rhythms. All on top of the basis of the syllable “ta” which is the quarter note. They are all break up in their subdivisions from diminuting and augmenting rhythms. Example of this method …show more content…
The biggest use I have seen of using Dalcroze was with observing Mrs. Jamie Rea and having her for Eurhythmics. Dalcroze has the time, space, and energy to add into music. It is so we have “good flow” in music to not seem so structured and really feel the music. Mrs. Kraus and Mrs. Pollard used piano would more of there Dalcroze teaching. They both have a really strong piano base so it was easier for them to play things on piano and have the students move around the classroom the way the music feels. It was a great way to have the students move and be active with the music. On the other hand, Mr. Leonhardt took a different approach to this. He is not a strong piano player, but his strong suit is in guitar. He ended up then using some Guitar and Dance Dalcroze in his first grade classroom actually. He would have his guitar on his strap and move around the classroom. This enabled him to dance along with the students and play ant the same time. That why I see singing guitar is being the more versatile instrument for general music because of the movement aspect. You are able to more around freely with a guitar anywhere in your classroom, whereas piano you are just stuck up wherever the piano is and you never get to move around with your kids. Gordon Music Learning Theory was not used in any of the classrooms we observed this semester. Kodály is the main use for rhythmic syllables in all of our classroom so far. I do not understand stand why Gordon is not used more in classrooms. I think a big reason is teachers do not want to teacher more than one methods for rhythms because that will just confuse the students more. We do use this all throughout Voice for Music