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Music Techniques

• Integrating Music into the Elementary Classroom. Fourth Edition
  This book emphasizes the importance of enriching children's lives by making music a central part of the elementary school curriculum. The book provides guidelines for elementary teachers with limited experience as well as music specialists.
• Introducing the Music of East Africa
  Explains and characterizes some of the basic concepts of East African music. Fundamentally an enhanced way of storytelling, East African music techniques are rooted in the play and rhythm of spoken language.
• The Effect of Mode of Instruction and Instrument Authenticity on Children's Attitudes, Information Recall, and Performance Skill for Music from Ghana
  Determines whether modes of instruction and uses of different instruments affect students attitudes, recall, and performance skill for Ghandian music. Stresses that authentic instruments are important in achieving optimum attitude and knowledge outcomes in multicultural music instruction.
• Why Not Start a Steel Band?
  Suggests expanding the eclectic nature of a band program by creating a steel band, a Caribbean-based percussion ensemble. The steel band complements multicultural education and attracts students to the music program.