University of Virginia Library

SCHOOL MUSIC.

Miss Hofer.

Professor Russell.

3. Music for Kindergarten and Primary Grades.—This course is designed
for kindergarten teachers and teachers of children in the first four grades
and treats of the beginning of music for small children. For this purpose all the
best song books will be secured, lists of songs furnished for the various phases and
functions of school activity—social and primitive life, nature study, industries,
heroism, season's festivals, etc. The school song as a basis for musical training will
be treated under the following heads: Song as a means of self-expression, interpretation
and relation to language and phonetics, correlation with school subjects, choice
and classification; expression through rhythm as developed in action through the
dramatizing of songs, in school games and marches; expression as found in music,—
the pulse, accent, analyzing of different time groups by clapping and marking; relation
of the rote song to notation—rhythm and pitch as discovered and pictured by
the children, first steps in music reading and writing, sight singing, drill in principles,
use of books.

Text-Books.—Modern Music Series, Primer and Books I and II.

Daily, from 9:30 to 10:30. Miss Hofer and Professor Russell. Cabell Hall
Auditorium.