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Take-Home Recordings

It is your choice whether or not you want to provide recordings of class materials for home use, or to encourage parents to tape your classes. The advantages are that children will want to hear the recordings over and over, immersing them still more in meters and tonalities, giving parents and children the aural support they need, and making music a part of day to day life. The disadvantages are that children will want to hear the recordings over and over, so whatever the level of quality of singing, intonation, rhythmic precision, tempo, and recording will become the enduring model for children. Recordings serve well in the car or on mobile devices to engage children who might otherwise be crabby in a long car ride, at the grocery store, or while mom is fixing dinner. If you want to provide a take-home audio component for your class, consider these recommendations. 1) That you include a full range of tonalities, meters, and songs deliberately ordered for music learning as you do with each lesson plan, rather than providing just a few sing-along songs or random Rhythm or Tonal Activities. The musical mind will be as engrossed in the audio as it is in the live class, without the distraction of other children and parents, so feed it as you do in class. 2) That your new awareness of techniques, lesson planning, and ordering of activities for energy management as well as music learning are implemented, so that your “seamless children’s play” becomes a “seamless audio podcast” that holds children by its effective design as well as musical content. 3) That you have permission from the composer to record the materials for class purposes.

  

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