Learning The Fundamentals of Music Theory at A Young Age

MUSIC THEORY
for young children
Monday, October 8, 12
MUSIC THEORY for young children
Ted Turner
Music has a great power for bringing people together. With so many forces in this world acting to drive wedges between people, it's important to preserve those things that help us experience our common humanity. TED TURNER, TURNER BROADCASTING SYSTEM
LAUREN LAUREN
Age:
Formal Education
lauren attends music class on tuesdays and thursdays. Her class consists of a variety of percussion instruments. She runs through a series of music explorations along side her classmates as they follow the leader mimicking what the teacher does. For a small portion of the class she is allowed to explore on her own and play with the instruments she pleases.
BEAU
Age:
Digital Native
in addition to Beaus music class at school, He comes home to play on his dads ipad. His parents enrolled him in a summer music class that introduced children his age to technology pertaining to music. He learns about music by exploring, discovering, and creating inside programs such as garage band and beatlab.
KIP KIP
Age:
6 3/4
Acoustic Explorer
kip, like beau, makes music after school, except he doesnt have an ipad. we can just say hes more of an analogue kind of dood. He nds each surface of his house an interesting producer of sound. Really though, he likes to bang on the tupperware while mom cooks dinner.
WHERE DO WE LEARN?
CLASSROOM
ONLINE
PULSE, an online educational community
SOFTWARE
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Things like apps and editing software have allowed children to explore music making in new ways in the classroom. These are things like scratch, garage band, incredibox, and beatlab
LINEAR + COLLABORATION = NONLINEAR PHENOMENON
INSPIRED BY EACH OTHER

When collaborative efforts are applied to a linear learning system, non linear learning begins to occur in various knooks and crannies. It allows children to problem solve, teach each other, and inspire each other
BRIAN
Age:
43
Music Educator

this is brian. He's been teaching music for fteen years now. He has been teaching kindergarten music classes for the past 7 years. He believes that his students have huge leaps in learning when participating in the making of sound. He boils it down to play now learn later. meaning Enjoy the experience and immerse yourself in it and then analyze and reect post play. He has a class discussion after the music session to recap on what was covered and learned that class period
FUNDAMENTALS OF MUSIC THEORY

while going through these courses, children are exposed to the basis of music. Referred to as the fundamentals, these topics are learned over time through repetition of simple exercises and through experiencing play. These core subjects are crucial to music education because they allow students to progress into more complex theory when learning instruments, composing music, and site reading
PITCH
The frequency of a note determining how high or low it sounds
The frequency of a note determining how high or low it sounds
SCALE
Successive notes of a key or mode either ascending or descending
Successive notes of a key or mode either ascending or descending
The element of music pertaining to time, played as a grouping of notes into accented and unaccented beat
RHYTHM
Three or four notes played simultaneously in harmony
CHORD
A sequence of single notes that is musically satisfying
MELODY
Pleasing combination of two or three tones played together in the background while a melody is being played. Harmony also refers to the study of chord progressions
HARMONY
Tone color, quality of sound that distinguishes one verse or instrument to another. It is determined by the harmonies of sound
TIMBRE
Style used as a means of evoking heightened emotions and states of mind
EXPRESSION
VISUALIZING SOUND
visualizing abstraction in a comprehensive way

CREATIVITY PHYSICAL COORDINATION

MOTOR
MATHEMATICAL SKILLS
M O T I VAT I O N S E N S O RY
LISTENING ABILITIES
MOVEMENT
MEMORY & RECALL SKILLS SPATIAL & ABSTRACT RECOGNITION TEMPORAL REASONING
LOGICAL VISION SOCIAL & EMOTIONAL LANGUAGE BASIC EMOTIONS
BY-PRODUCTS OF MUSIC THEORY

C O O R D I N AT I O N
M E M O RY
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In addition to learning about music, music education enhances a number of cognitive skills that allow children to excel in other areas of study. Some of the ones we have pulled out are ...
wants & needs

musical comprehension guidance collaboration tools interactivity/movement
boundaries
hearing exposure attention span size [instrument to person] vocal development
TOOLS & EQUIPMENT

preschool and kindergarten music classes focuses a lot on the tangibility of an object
when instruments are used, they tend to be simple, percussion instruments
such things as a simple xylophone. they often repeat after the teacher and then explore on their own
in large groups the children collectively make simple grooves with the teacher
these objects arent always instruments, and do not make sound for that matter
...its about the process not the end product

LORI GALLOWAY
aside from music, a lot of creative learning processes for this age range lean towards tactility and movement
musical discovery objects
note panel 1
CHORD TETRAHEDRON
note panel 1 5
hi
3
lo variable
4 SCALE CUBE
low
high
high
low PITCH TORUS

touch surface
RYTHYM SHPERE
montessori
+
compound learning
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MUSIC THEORY for young children

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MUSIC THEORY for young children

LINEAR + COLLABORATION = NONLINEAR PHENOMENON

INSPIRED BY EACH OTHER

MUSIC THEORY for young children

MUSIC THEORY for young children

FUNDAMENTALS OF MUSIC THEORY

MUSIC THEORY for young children

The frequency of a note determining how high or low it sounds

MUSIC THEORY for young children

The frequency of a note determining how high or low it sounds

MUSIC THEORY for young children

Successive notes of a key or mode either ascending or descending

MUSIC THEORY for young children

Successive notes of a key or mode either ascending or descending

MUSIC THEORY for young children

MUSIC THEORY for young children

MUSIC THEORY for young children

MUSIC THEORY for young children

Three or four notes played simultaneously in harmony

MUSIC THEORY for young children

Three or four notes played simultaneously in harmony

MUSIC THEORY for young children

Three or four notes played simultaneously in harmony

MUSIC THEORY for young children

A sequence of single notes that is musically satisfying

MUSIC THEORY for young children

A sequence of single notes that is musically satisfying

MUSIC THEORY for young children

A sequence of single notes that is musically satisfying

MUSIC THEORY for young children

MUSIC THEORY for young children

MUSIC THEORY for young children

MUSIC THEORY for young children

MUSIC THEORY for young children

MUSIC THEORY for young children

MUSIC THEORY for young children

Style used as a means of evoking heightened emotions and states of mind

MUSIC THEORY for young children

Style used as a means of evoking heightened emotions and states of mind

MUSIC THEORY for young children

Style used as a means of evoking heightened emotions and states of mind

MUSIC THEORY for young children

visualizing abstraction in a comprehensive way

MUSIC THEORY for young children

CREATIVITY PHYSICAL COORDINATION

LOGICAL VISION SOCIAL & EMOTIONAL LANGUAGE BASIC EMOTIONS

BY-PRODUCTS OF MUSIC THEORY

* When playing music mu

activated simultaneousl MUSIC THEORY

wants & needs

TOOLS & EQUIPMENT

MUSIC THEORY for young children