Introduction
This book introduces melody and its elements in an entertaining, and easy-to-learn way. Children have fun learning as they read and hear about characters and their houses.
The stories tell about the relationships of the members of the Pentatonic and Diatonic scales. The book visually shows the tonal relationships in the houses on Melody Street, with the use of solfege hand signs, and with patterns shown on keyboard and various Orff instruments.
The stories tell about the relationships of the members of the Pentatonic and Diatonic scales. The book visually shows the tonal relationships in the houses on Melody Street, with the use of solfege hand signs, and with patterns shown on keyboard and various Orff instruments.
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Letters to Readers
Dear Children:
Boys and girls in my fifth grade music classes helped to make up the stories in MELODY STREET. We made up the stories to have fun and to help you learn music. The stories and the drawings teach the simple parts of melody first and other parts later when you are more ready for them.
You can make up more stories and draw some pictures, too.
Be musical! Have fun!
Boys and girls in my fifth grade music classes helped to make up the stories in MELODY STREET. We made up the stories to have fun and to help you learn music. The stories and the drawings teach the simple parts of melody first and other parts later when you are more ready for them.
You can make up more stories and draw some pictures, too.
Be musical! Have fun!
Dear Parents and Teachers:
This online book is a compilation of stories that I used in teaching fifth grade music students at Borger Middle School, Borger I.S.D., Borger, Texas, over a period of several years. My thanks goes to all these students who have freely expressed their musical creativity in my class.
The stories help children learn solfege pitches and melodic terminology in a sequential manner, as is recommended by the Kodaly concept for learning music. Sister Lorna Zemke, Silver Lake College, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, compared solfege pitches to tone houses in her presentations to music teachers. The artwork is deliberately simple to encourage the use of one’s imagination.
I sincerely hope that you and your children find this book helpful and entertaining.
Musically yours,
Betty M. Reeves
This online book is a compilation of stories that I used in teaching fifth grade music students at Borger Middle School, Borger I.S.D., Borger, Texas, over a period of several years. My thanks goes to all these students who have freely expressed their musical creativity in my class.
The stories help children learn solfege pitches and melodic terminology in a sequential manner, as is recommended by the Kodaly concept for learning music. Sister Lorna Zemke, Silver Lake College, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, compared solfege pitches to tone houses in her presentations to music teachers. The artwork is deliberately simple to encourage the use of one’s imagination.
I sincerely hope that you and your children find this book helpful and entertaining.
Musically yours,
Betty M. Reeves
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