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This thoughtful undertaking provides a full flowering of principal features of 'General Music', that holistic realm of experience and education that extends across all facets of meaningful musical participation for elementary and secondary school students. With its extensive coverage, theoretical notions, and pedagogical considerations, Abril and Gault have framed a fine guide to music practice for classrooms of children and youth, and have invited an excellent crew of expert authors to detail participatory musicking in ways that carefully attend to the cognitive, kinesthetic, and affective development of diverse learners. * Patricia Shehan Campbell, Donald E. Peterson Professor of Music, University of Washington * This masterfully edited collection of essays is a first to position general music as a holistic, interconnected, and complex activity that is intimately linked with intrapersonal and interpersonal human connections. Supported by the most recent research and theoretical work, each chapter offers teaching ideas on the many areas and themes that compose the mosaic of general music, including presentational and participatory musicking, singing, performance, listening, appreciation, creativity, pop, folk and world music, technology, and community building. This must-read book will inspire teachers, students, researchers, and anyone interested in the art of general music education. * Associate Professor of Music Education, University of Southern California *

This thoughtful undertaking provides a full flowering of principal features of 'General Music', that holistic realm of experience and education that extends across all facets of meaningful musical participation for elementary and secondary school students. With its extensive coverage, theoretical notions, and pedagogical considerations, Abril and Gault have framed a fine guide to music practice for classrooms of children and youth, and have invited an excellent crew of expert authors to detail participatory musicking in ways that carefully attend to the cognitive, kinesthetic, and affective development of diverse learners. * Patricia Shehan Campbell, Donald E. Peterson Professor of Music, University of Washington * This masterfully edited collection of essays is a first to position general music as a holistic, interconnected, and complex activity that is intimately linked with intrapersonal and interpersonal human connections. Supported by the most recent research and theoretical work, each chapter offers teaching ideas on the many areas and themes that compose the mosaic of general music, including presentational and participatory musicking, singing, performance, listening, appreciation, creativity, pop, folk and world music, technology, and community building. This must-read book will inspire teachers, students, researchers, and anyone interested in the art of general music education. * Associate Professor of Music Education, University of Southern California *

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Carlos R. Abril is Professor of Music and Associate Dean at the University of Miami Frost School of Music, where he teaches courses in equity, access, and diversity in music education, philosophy of music education, and general music methods. His body of research seeks to document visible and invisible barriers to the study of music in schools, as well as to illuminate ways to make the study of music more relevant and accessible. Abril's work is published in numerous research and professional journals, as well as in books. He co-edited the books Teaching General Music: Approaches, Issues, and Viewpoints and Musical Experiences in Our Lives: Lessons We Learn and Meanings We Make and has published music and instructional materials for World Music Press and McGraw-Hill's Spotlight on Music. Abril is the chair of the Society for Research in Music Education and has served on the Research Panel for the National Endowment for the Arts. He was recently honored with the Phillip Frost Award for Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship. Brent M. Gault is Professor of Music Education and Interim Chair of the Music Education Department at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He has taught elementary and early childhood music courses in Texas, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Indiana. He specializes in elementary general music education, early childhood music education, and Kodály-inspired methodology. He also has training in both the Orff and Dalcroze approaches to music education. Gault has presented sessions and research at conferences of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association, Dalcroze Society of America, International Kodály Society, International Society for Music Education, Organization of American Kodály Educators, and National Association for Music Education. In addition, he has served as a presenter and guest lecturer for colleges and music education organizations in the United States, Canada, China, Ireland, and Singapore. He is the co-editor of Teaching General Music: Approaches, Issues, and Viewpoints and author of Listen Up! Fostering Musicianship Through Active Listening.

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