Music Across the Senses: Listening, Learning, and Making Meaning

225 Pages·2013·1.64 MB·English

by  Jody L. Kerchner

Music Across the Senses

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Music Across
the Senses
Listening, Learning, and
Making Meaning
Jody L. Kerchner
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Kerchner, Jody L., 1964–
Music across the senses : listening, learning, and making meaning / Jody L. Kerchner.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978–0–19–996761–2 (alk. paper)—ISBN 978–0–19–996763–6 (alk. paper)
1.  Music—Instruction and study. 2.  Music appreciation—Instruction and study.  I. Title.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Figures vii
List of Recordings ix
List of Videos on the Companion Website xi
Acknowledgments xiii
1. Principles and Foundations of Music Listening 1
2. Teachers Leading and Learning 2 0
3. Listeners Moving: Music Listening as Embodied Experience 5 0
4. Listeners Mapping: Invented Notations 87
5. L isteners Speaking: Th ought and Word 1 31
6. Listeners Rehearsing and Performing 1 60
7. Teachers and Students Assessing 1 82
Index 203
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LIST OF FIGURES
2.1. Tenets of Constructivism 23
2.2. Questioning Guide for Observation 38
2.3. O bservation Checklist 39
4.1. Stephanie, Elizabeth, and Mary Kate’s Musical Score 90
4.2. Jessie, Whitney, and Kelsey’s Musical Score 91
4.3. Lauren and Catherine’s Musical Score 9 1
4.4. Dott ing for “Row, Row, Row, Your Boat” 9 4
4.5. Ideograph of “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” 95
4.6. Features of A Music Listening Map 9 6
4.7. Margaret’s First Music Listening Map 98
4.8. Margaret’s Second Music Listening Map 99
4.9. Maribeth’s First Music Listening Map 1 01
4.10. Maribeth’s Second Music Listening Map 1 01
4.11. P hrase Dott ing for “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” 117
4.12. Map for Handel’s “Hornpipe” (W ater Music Suite No. 2 ) 119
4.13. Map for Vivaldi’s “Autumn” (Th e Four Seasons ) 121
4.14. Map for Strauss’s “Sunrise” ( Also Sprach Zarathustra ) 123
4.15. Map for Glière’s “Russian Sailor’s Dance” ( Th e Red Poppy ) 126
5.1. Word Choice Chart 150
5.2. Venn Diagram for Comparative Music Listening 1 53
5.3. Music Listening Fill-In Chart 1 55
5.4. Music Listening Web 156
6.1. Traditional School Music Curriculum Model 1 63
6.2. Comprehensive Music Curriculum Model 1 63
7.1. Teacher Informal Class Assessment Checklist 1 91
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7.2. Teacher Informal Individual Assessment Checklist 195
7.3. Teacher Rubrics for Evaluating Students for Talk-Alouds, Mapping, and
Movement 197
7.4. Student Self-Assessment Form 1 98
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LIST OF RECORDINGS

B ach: Brandenburg Concerto #2 in F Major, mvt. 1 [Ransom Wilson and Gerard
Schwarz, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Bach: Brandenburg Concertos, Suites
in B Minor ]
B eethoven: Symphony #7 in A Major, mvt. 2 [Josef Krips, Th e London Symphony
Orchestra, B eethoven: Th e Complete Symphony Collection ]
Berlin: “Steppin’ Out With My Baby” ( Easter Parade ) [Th e Texans, Blue Star,
BS-1528, htt p://www.ceder.net/recorddb/viewsingle.php?Recordid=13047]
Bizet:  “Overture” ( Carmen) [Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker,
Bizet: Carmen (Highlights) ]
“Chigoku-Chiho No Komoriuta” [ Th e Music Connection , Silver Burdett Ginn, 1995,
Grade 8, CD #6, Track 5]
Copland:  F anfare for Th e Common Man [ Leonard Bernstein, New  York
Philharmonic, Copland: Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, Billy Th e Kid, Fanfare for Th e
Common Man ]
Durufl é: “Sanctus” (R equiem ) [Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra &
Chorus, Fauré Requiem, Op. 48/Durufl é: Requiem, Op. 9 ]
G liére: “Russian Sailor’s Dance” (Th e Red Poppy) [Eugene Ormandy, Philadelphia
Orchestra, R ussian Orchestral Works ]
Handel: Act 2, Duet and Chorus, “Hail, hail, Judea” (J udas Maccabeus ) [Nicolas
McGehan, Lisa Saff er, Patricia Spence, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & U.C.
Berkeley Chamber Chorus, H andel: Judas Maccabaeus ]
Handel: “Hornpipe” ( Water Music Suite No. 2) [John Eliot Gardiner, English
Baroque Soloists, H andel: Water Music ]
Liszt: Étude No. 3 in D-fl at Major, “Un Sospiro” (T rois études de concert )[Lang
Lang, Liszt - My Piano Hero (Deluxe Edition) ]
Mozart: “Lacrymosa” (Requiem) [Carlo Maria Giulini, Philharmonia Orchestra &
Chorus, Mozart Requiem ]
Orff : “O fortuna” (C armina Burana) [Seiji Ozawa, Boston Symphony Orchestra,
New England Conservatory Orchestra & Chorus, O rff —Carmina Burana ]
Rutt er: “Magnifi cat” ( Magnifi cat) [John Rutt er, Th e Cambridge Singers, Choristers
of St. Paul’s Cathedral, and the City of London Sinfonia, Magnifi cat, Th e Falcon,
Two Festival Anthems by John Rutt er ]
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