Transcript How does young children respond to music in music class?

How do young children respond to
music in a music class?
Penn State University
Tzu-Yi Lee 李姿怡
2008 Fall
Purpose overview
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As a participant in the music class with
young children
video
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Edwin Gordon’s Music Learning Theory
“Audiation”, is a term coined by Edwin
Gordon (2003a), is most recently defined
as, “Hearing and comprehending in one’s
mind the sound of music that is not or may
not never been physically present ”
The types and stages of preparatory
audiation—acculturation, imitation,
assimilation (Gordon, 2003b)
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Several conclusions were drew that
generally upheld the stages of
acculturation as theorized by Gordon.
(Hicks,1992)
Purpose of study
To describe how young children respond to
music in music class
Research question
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What are the responses of young children
to music in music class?
— What kind of oral responses will they
provide?
— What kind of non-verbal responses will they
provide?
Term
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Music
musical activities include
 rhythmic/tonal patterns
 chants
 song singing
 musical recordings
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responding to music
verbal or non-verbal behaviors that are
stimulated by music
= participate in musical activities
Literature review
children as young as four and five years
old were able to portray emotional
meaning in music through expressive
movement ( Boone & Cunningham, 2001)
The primary result of “Movement as a Musical
Response Among Preschool Children” was the
generation of a substantive theory of
children’s movement responses to music.
The author also derived implications of
the seven propositions of early children
education and movement responses to
music. (Metz, 1999)
Young children’s music attitudes and
responses do not seem to be based on specific
musical characteristics and that children may
have very idiosyncratic responses and listening
styles.(Sims & Cassidy ,1997)
Kindergarten participants’ listening times
were consistent with the previous
responses of preschool-age children.
Additionally, time spent listening bore no
relationship to either teacher rating of
attention or to age.(Sims & Nolker , 2002)
types of singing play were put into different
categories: chanting and intoning, free-flow
vocalising, reworkings of known songs,
movement vocalising, and vocalising to
animate. (Young , 2004)
Plan for Implementation
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Qualitative Research
natural setting with an informal instruction.
Besides one instructor and children’s parents ,
there are also three graduate students
participating in the music class.
Participants
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Who?
Children who will enroll in the music
class in Music Academy in 2009 Spring
ages 2—4
white American
boys and girls
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Where?
Music Academy
When?
2009 spring
(5 classes from Feb. to March)
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How?
Data Collection
 observation (in person and videotape)
 documents(quick notes, journal, lesson plans)
 interview (children’s parents, teacher)
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What ?
equipment—Video and audio recorder
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