We want them to love music and be confident about their voices so that they will lift their eyes up to Christ. If our chief end is to glorify God and enjoy him forever, and one way to glory in him is through worship, then it is essential to ponder and pray about the ways we teach music to our children. All of the voice qualities we look for in well-trained singers were there effortlessly in these awkward, pre-teen boys during the folksong time because it was natural and playful, and they were not self-conscious during that lesson.
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But what I noticed is that later in the morning when I taught them our folksongs for the term and we danced around the room playing drums, rhythm sticks and marching to the beat, they sang with joy, gusto, almost perfect pitch, and lovely tone that was full of breath support and energy. I believe they had become self-conscious of their singing voices which hindered their tone, their confidence, and even their joy in worship. In the mornings when we sang our hymn, the fifth-grade boys sang with stilted voices, quiet and embarrassed, barely mouthing the words. This fall, I taught music at a small Charlotte Mason school and was able to witness some of these ideas in practice. These tools should be beautiful, well-written, and not dumbed down or take the form of ridiculous moral ditties that even adults despise. Regarding the second question, the means to produce these results of love of music rather than self-consciousness are through the use of play, natural singing games, and folk songs. While doing this we are to avoid causing self-consciousness in the child. I believe from this text that the main answer to question one is music education should be expected to first impart a love of music with technical skill following. Do the means we employ produce the results we desire?.What is music expected to do now that it is a part of education?.He states that since music was included in their school curriculum, teachers should reflect on two important questions: He draws out the goals of his speech in his introduction.
He says about himself in this Parents’ Review article that “my only claim to address you is, that I have had some experience of young voices, that I have loved singing all my life, and finally, that I have not yet succeeded in forgetting that I was once a child myself.” He remembers being a child and the delight he had in music, and his goal for music education was to impart this love to all children. He worked with notable men such as folksong collector Cecil Sharp and British composer Ralph Vaughn Williams in the Folk-Song Society. Their presentations would be transcribed and included in the Parents’ Review. In the days of the PNEU, experts would come and speak about topics of interest.
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