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- Andrea Lyman
- The six- or seven-year-old, still fresh from the spiritual world, is just beginning her evolution as a human being. She is “unfinished” and open to the outside environment.
- Here, music continues to be presented so that it appeals to the feeling life of the child. Music in the “mood of the fifth” is gradually replaced by more purely pentatonic melodies.
- During the third grade, most children go through the inner transformation that Rudolf Steiner called the “nine-year change.” The child incarnates more fully into the physical body, leaves the magical world of early childhood, and experiences himself as an independent being separate from the world.
- Having gone through the nine-year change, fourth graders are ready for another new set of musical experiences. If the proper preparation has been provided for part-singing and harmony, the children will now be able to sing simple rounds, canons, descants, and quodlibets (partner songs) with grace and ease.
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- The six or seven-year-old, still fresh from the spiritual world, is just beginning her evolution as a human being. She is “unfinished” and open to the outside environment.
- Here, music continues to be presented so that it appeals to the feeling life of the child. Music in the “mood of the fifth” is gradually replaced by more purely pentatonic melodies.
- During the third grade, most children go through the inner transformation that Rudolf Steiner called the “nine-year change.” The child incarnates more fully into the physical body, leaves the magical world of early childhood, and experiences himself as an independent being separate from the world.
- Having gone through the nine-year change, fourth graders are ready for another new set of musical experiences. If the proper preparation has been provided for part-singing and harmony, the children will now be able to sing simple rounds, canons, descants, and quodlibets (partner songs) with grace and ease.
Oct 5, 2023 · If you're interested in a holistic approach to music education, you might want to consider the Waldorf approach. Waldorf education is based on the philosophy Office:
A Brief History Of Waldorf Curriculum Approach. Going way back to 1919, Rudolf Steiner was invited to establish the first Waldorf school in Stuttgart, Germany for children of factory workers at the Waldorf-Astoria cigarette factory. Thus the name “Waldorf” education.
The Waldorf music classroom in the early years focuses on developing a solid musical sense. The teacher ensures that the children work their way through every aspect of music: melody, tempo, rhythm, beat, meter, melody, timbre, form, and so on. These are experienced experientially, through activity.
What follows is an outline of a suggested Waldorf music curriculum, grades 1-8.* It comes out of my own extensive study of anthroposophy, Rudolf Steiner’s indications, both in child development and music, and many years of teaching experience.
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The music curriculum in a Waldorf School is in harmony with Rudolf Steiner’s view of child development. Beginning in the early childhood classrooms, we find the hauntingly beautiful pentatonic or 5-note-scale songs that do not fully center on a dominant tone.
