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Middle School General Music

The Best Part of Your Day, Second Edition

Elizabeth Ann McAnally

Create a viable, meaningful program that will motivate your students and have them participating with enthusiasm with Middle School General Music: The Best Part of Your Day. A welcome guidebook for music teachers trying to navigate the sometimes turbulent waters of middle school general music, it offers strategies and lessons that have been created in the real world of general music by a practicing teacher.

Revised and expanded to align with the National Core Arts Standards, each section of this second edition is full of tips and lessons to help middle schoolers develop a life-long love of music. From instructional units to composition projects, rhythm games to listening lessons, you’ll find plenty of ideas for working with young adolescents. An appendix of suggested resources steers you to materials appropriate for middle-level students. Bolster your program with the discussion about why general music is so vital in middle school. If your music classes feel like the perfect storm, let McAnally make them the best part of your day.
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / National Association for Music Education (NAfME)
Pages: 174 • Trim: 6½ x 9¼
978-1-4758-1485-9 • Hardback • April 2016 • $70.00 • (£54.00)
978-1-4758-1486-6 • Paperback • April 2016 • $35.00 • (£30.00)
Subjects: Music / Instruction & Study / General, Education / Arts in Education, Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / Arts & Humanities, Music / Instruction & Study / Composition, Music / Musical Instruments / General
Elizabeth Ann McAnallyis a middle school general music teacher and choral director in Philadelphia, PA, where she is very busy but never bored. In addition to teaching, she writes, speaks, and consults on the topics of middle school general music, urban music education, and curriculum development.
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Creating
Chapter 2: Performing
Chapter 3: Responding
Chapter 4: Connecting
References
Appendix A: Activities to Strengthen Notation Skills
Appendix B: Tips for Working with Adolescents
Appendix C: Resources
About the Author
If there is one book to read before teaching general music to middle school students, this is it! Elizabeth Ann McAnally entertains the reader with humorous anecdotes while sharing creative yet practical advice for developing successful learning experiences based on each of the new national standards. A wealth of valuable information awaits both the novice and the experienced teacher. By applying the innovative ideas this book offers, teachers will make middle school general music class exciting, engaging, and rich with memorable skill-building activities, cultivating a lifetime of musical enjoyment.
— Debbie Lynn Wolf, professor of music education, Cairn University, Langhorne, PA


This edition of Middle School General Music is a masterfully sequenced book for fostering a love of music making with middle school students. The author realistically combines elements of creating, performing, and responding to promote successful connections to the artistic processes students experience in music classrooms. Music educators will find this book an indispensable resource.
— Shelly Cooper, professor of music education, University of Arizona; editor, General Music Today


Drawing from many years of exemplary middle school teaching, Elizabeth McAnally unpacks Standards and displays them beautifully in real-world methods, techniques, and strategies that will work in any classroom. High expectations and joyful learning are possible at the middle level, and this book will guide and inspire new and veteran teachers alike.
— Kevin Mixon, national board-certified teacher, composer and author of “Reaching and Teaching All Instrumental Students”


Middle School General Music

The Best Part of Your Day, Second Edition

Cover Image
Hardback
Paperback
Summary
Summary
  • Create a viable, meaningful program that will motivate your students and have them participating with enthusiasm with Middle School General Music: The Best Part of Your Day. A welcome guidebook for music teachers trying to navigate the sometimes turbulent waters of middle school general music, it offers strategies and lessons that have been created in the real world of general music by a practicing teacher.

    Revised and expanded to align with the National Core Arts Standards, each section of this second edition is full of tips and lessons to help middle schoolers develop a life-long love of music. From instructional units to composition projects, rhythm games to listening lessons, you’ll find plenty of ideas for working with young adolescents. An appendix of suggested resources steers you to materials appropriate for middle-level students. Bolster your program with the discussion about why general music is so vital in middle school. If your music classes feel like the perfect storm, let McAnally make them the best part of your day.
Details
Details
  • Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / National Association for Music Education (NAfME)
    Pages: 174 • Trim: 6½ x 9¼
    978-1-4758-1485-9 • Hardback • April 2016 • $70.00 • (£54.00)
    978-1-4758-1486-6 • Paperback • April 2016 • $35.00 • (£30.00)
    Subjects: Music / Instruction & Study / General, Education / Arts in Education, Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / Arts & Humanities, Music / Instruction & Study / Composition, Music / Musical Instruments / General
Author
Author
  • Elizabeth Ann McAnallyis a middle school general music teacher and choral director in Philadelphia, PA, where she is very busy but never bored. In addition to teaching, she writes, speaks, and consults on the topics of middle school general music, urban music education, and curriculum development.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Foreword
    Preface
    Introduction
    Chapter 1: Creating
    Chapter 2: Performing
    Chapter 3: Responding
    Chapter 4: Connecting
    References
    Appendix A: Activities to Strengthen Notation Skills
    Appendix B: Tips for Working with Adolescents
    Appendix C: Resources
    About the Author
Reviews
Reviews
  • If there is one book to read before teaching general music to middle school students, this is it! Elizabeth Ann McAnally entertains the reader with humorous anecdotes while sharing creative yet practical advice for developing successful learning experiences based on each of the new national standards. A wealth of valuable information awaits both the novice and the experienced teacher. By applying the innovative ideas this book offers, teachers will make middle school general music class exciting, engaging, and rich with memorable skill-building activities, cultivating a lifetime of musical enjoyment.
    — Debbie Lynn Wolf, professor of music education, Cairn University, Langhorne, PA


    This edition of Middle School General Music is a masterfully sequenced book for fostering a love of music making with middle school students. The author realistically combines elements of creating, performing, and responding to promote successful connections to the artistic processes students experience in music classrooms. Music educators will find this book an indispensable resource.
    — Shelly Cooper, professor of music education, University of Arizona; editor, General Music Today


    Drawing from many years of exemplary middle school teaching, Elizabeth McAnally unpacks Standards and displays them beautifully in real-world methods, techniques, and strategies that will work in any classroom. High expectations and joyful learning are possible at the middle level, and this book will guide and inspire new and veteran teachers alike.
    — Kevin Mixon, national board-certified teacher, composer and author of “Reaching and Teaching All Instrumental Students”


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