Media
Informal Music Learning and Improvisation
Expanding our "canon" of repertoire
Learning Theorist Student Presentations
Jerome Bruner: Discovery Learning (Clay)
Howard Gardner: Theory of Multiple Intelligences (Samantha)
Lev Vygotsky: Zone of Proximal Development (Bret)
Student Prezis: Merriam's Functions of Human Musicality
Student Samples of Elementary Music Media
Salt Lake City Children's Chorus: "Dancing Song" (Kodaly)
Elementary Music Orff Ensemble
PS22 Chorus: "Landslide" (Fleetwood Mac)
Link to Oliver Sacks: "Are human brains wired for music?" (PBS: Music and the Brain)
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/musicinstinct/category/video/music-and-the-brain/
Bobby McFerrin demonstrates audience expectations for the pentatonic scale (World Science Festival, 2009)
Alan Merriam: Functions of Human Musicality
http://prezi.com/wmixezknptrf/merriams-functions-of-human-musicality/