K-12 Newsletters - Music Education and Dance Movement Education Resources

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Educational Cyberplayground™ - Reference Directory of Schools and K -12 Resources. Provides information about U.S. K-12 public, private, and charter schools in all 50 states. Find Content for Music, Teachers, Internet, Technology, Literacy, Arts and Linguistics.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com

Music Education: Seventy thousand music educators working for the education of America's children, Copyright Law, Free Music Downloads, Childrens Music, K-12 Music Education and how Music makes you Smarter.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/

Music Makes You Smarter Research.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/musicsmart.html


A Complete all-in-one resource for teaching the arts.
The Ideal Approach and the Real Goal of All Education:CREATIVITY AND THE ROLE OF ART IN THE K-12 SCHOOL CURRICULUM
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Arts/


Art Advocacy
K-12 "HIGHER ORDER" THOUGHT PROCESSES ARE: classifying, inferring, hypothesizing, generalizing, valuing, relating, and synthesizing." aka Dispositions of Mind.
Curricula Controversy Harvard shows it does not make you smarter for those who advocate for keeping Arts in Schools.
STUDIO THINKING: THE REAL BENEFITS OF VISUAL ARTS EDUCATION
IS THIS THE BOOK THAT WILL CHANGE ARTS EDUCATION?
These authors will settle for nothing less than “changing the conversation.”
First Review: September 12, 2007 by John Broomall Executive director of the Pennsylvania Alliance for Arts Education
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Arts/StudioThinkingArtsAdvocacy.html

EAR TRAINING AND PERFECT PITCH
Learn why the entire population of tonal language speaking cultures have perfect pitch. Also learn about the Absoute Time.
Topics:  Perfect time, Perfect pitch, Absolute Pitch, Tone Deaf, Amusic, Tonal Language and Ear Health.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/perfectpitch.html


MUSIC TEACHER CLASSROOM RESOURCES
Online Music Lesson Plans for a High School Curriculum. Music Curriculum for Classroom use, teachers suggested resources for kindergarten through middle school.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/classres.html


Teach Reading Through Songs
Proven benefits show that teaching rhythm syllables to children improves rhythm and literacy skills.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/Rhythm_and_Literacy.html

How to Motivate Teens through Songs
Motivate Teens Through Songs. Why does this work? If you can't read you do what comes naturally, you chant and sing. This is how we used to learn and remember everything.


American Orff Schulwerk Association
http://www.aosa.org

ROOTS OF MODERN DANCE

 
Traude Schrattenecker 1925 - 2005
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/AboutUs/bioTraude.html
1970 I attended the University of Toronto Royal Conservatory of Music and was taught dance by Ms. Traude Schrattenecker
one of the original creators of the Schulwerk, who developed the movement approach with Orff and Keetman at the Orff Institute in Salzburg, Austria.
Ms. Schrattenecker lived through the bombing of Dresden during World War II studied and danced with Mary Wigman the Founder of Modern Dance. Most
people have heard of Martha Graham, who popularized "modern dance" and brought the movement to the United States. Sadly,Traude has now passed away.
Learn about Orff Schulwerk method of teaching children music that involves dance. Traude Schrattenecker developed the dance component of Orff Shulwerk.

I am the first person in the United States that graduated Level 3 Orff Certification that had been taught Orff Schulwerk as a child.
In 1965 and 1966 as a 10 year old at Oak Lane Day School my first Orff teacher was Mrs. Fannabell Kremins, who had just received her training
directly by Carl Orff and Gunild Keetman in the class of 1962 at the Royal Conservatory of Music, University of Toronto. See the 1963 Student Class
Picture of Kremins, Keetman Orff and Doreen Hall. Click to see this historic picture.


National Children's Folksong Repository
Preserve our Oral Culture - Public Folklore Project built by you.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/NCFR/

Neuroscience for Healthy Kids - Jump Rope Chants and Songs
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/NCFR/health.html

Strong National Museum of Play
Rochester NY
http://www.strongmuseum.org/

The Dancing Master, 1651-1728:
An Illustrated Compendium
By Robert M. Keller
http://www.izaak.unh.edu/nhltmd/indexes/dancingmaster/

Petaluma Physical Education Program - Dance Resources
http://www.sonoma.edu/kinesiology/ppep/activity_dance18.shtml


** Music Copyright vs. Copyleft
This is anathema to the copyright bullies.  But it's manna from heaven for the proletariat.
http://blog.edu-cyberpg.com/2007/11/19/Larry+Lessing+Talking+Machines+Performance+Rights+Vs+Public+Domain+Works.aspx



Standing In The Shadows of Motown a Webquest about The Funk Brothers, Music, History, Science  and Popular Culture.
The Greatist Hit Machine in Music History
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Culdesac/Stars/funkbrothers.html

CARLA L. BENSON First Lady of Philadelphia Soul
"THE MOST RECORDED FEMALE BACKGROUND VOCALIST IN THE HISTORY OF THE RECORDING INDUSTRY"
Resulting in the 2007 Living Legend Award from her hometown the City of Camden N.J.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Ringleaders/carlabenson.html


James Brown The Real Story
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/presents/shows/james.brown/index.html



Larry Lessig How Creativity is being strangled by the law
http://blog.edu-cyberpg.com/2007/11/19/Larry+Lessing+Talking+Machines+Performance+Rights+Vs+Public+Domain+Works.aspx
tiny url for the one above
http://tinyurl.com/2dbaxy



Gibson Robot Guitar
check out the demo:
http://crave.cnet.com/8300-1_105-1-0.html?keyword=Gibson+Robot+Guitar
PDF Manual here:
http://www.gibson.com/robotguitar/robot-guitar-manual.pdf