Mills: Music in the Primary School

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Primary teachers and music
Part I: Starting points for musical activity
Music games
Composing
Performing
Listening
Part II: Developing a framework
Musical development during the primary years
Planning curriculum music
Music within the curriculum
Music within the primary school
Further reading
References
Index

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This long-awaited new edition of Music in the Primary School is for all those involved in Primary music, for music specialists and non-specialists, teachers and advisers. An indispensible handbook, it contains practical advice and ideas for facilitating listening, composing, and performing, with reference to the National Curriculum. Part 1 focuses on the organization of music-making and suggests inclusive activities, while Part 2 presents a theoretical framework for curriculum planning.

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It is sad to read that this excellent book, the revised version of one first published 18 years ago, is the last by Janet Mills. While dealing admirably with a specific subject, it exemplifies many of the late author's best qualities: sensible and imaginative practical suggestions based on work with real children in real schools, firm statements of generous educational principles and lucidly accessible summaries of relevant research . . . Above all, Janet Mills displays a humane wisdom and sprightly wit that make reading the book a pleasure as well as a continually useful exercise. She loves music but not at the expense of other subjects; indeed, her suggestions for cross-curricular work are truly illuminating and far from the vague gestures of good intention that sometimes go under that name . . The only thing to regret about this book is that we cannot anticipate the satisfaction of reading its successor

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