 | The University of Virginia record April, 1908 |  |
SCHOOL MUSIC.
| Miss Hofer. | Mrs. Starke. |
The courses in this subject emphasize methods of teaching music, with special
reference to the needs of kindergartens, primary teachers and those preparing for
supervisory work.
2. Music for Kindergarten and Primary Grades.—Beginnings of music for
children. The school song as a basis for musical training.
(a)—Song as a means of self expression, interpretation and relation to language
and phonetics. Training of voice and ear. Correlation with school subjects. Choice
and classification.
(b)—Expression through rythm; first, as developed in action through the dramatizing
of songs, in school games and marches; second, as found in music,—the
pulse, accent, analyzing of different time groups by clapping and marking.
(c)—Relation of rote song to notation; rythm and pitch as discovered and
pictured by the children; first steps in music—reading and writing, sight singing,
the use of books.
Daily, hours to be arranged. Auditorium.
Text-Books.—Modern Music Series, Primer and Book I; song literature.
| The University of Virginia record April, 1908 | |