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EXPLORE PAUL WINTER'S WORLD OF LIVING MUSIC: Other teaching resources About EARTH: VOICES OF A PLANET About EARTHBEAT The Paul Winter Consort Paul Winter Wilderness albums Living Music by Category First (prototype) edition $5 (+shipping) 
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The first in a series of collaborations between music educator Marilyn Copeland Davidson and Paul Winter, the 'Teacher's Guide' takes an innovative co-curricular approach using lesson plans which explore each composition of Paul Winter's Grammy Award-nominated album, EARTH: VOICES OF A PLANET, as a bridge to other subjects, generating creative exercises and integrating science and arts through music. Student activities include Chapters are divided into sections designed for use by classroom teachers without musical experience as well as by music educators. Designed to develop active, participatory listening, encourage communication skills, stimulate self-expression, provoke students to draw inspiration from their environment to create their own improvised music and contribute to deepening environmental awareness, the guide can be used as a sequence of lessons or in part. The first (prototype) edition of 'The Teacher's Guide to EARTH, VOICES OF A PLANET', published by Earth Music Productions, is available from Living Music for just $5 (plus shipping). The more developed later edition includes Orff arrangements, with an arrangement by Dr.Robert deFrece of 'Garden of the Earth' (the Russian Folk Song originally recorded on the Living Music album EARTHBEAT). This later edition, together with separate student books, is published by Warner Bros. Publications and is available through our affiliate program: (Music retailers please contact warnerbrospublications.com to purchase 'The Teacher's Guide to EARTH VOICES OF A PLANET'). "The program is awe-inspiring, musically superb and is an excellent example of the type of materials that can be developed which are educationally sound. [..] The material is topnotch and useable in all grade levels." (SCHOOL MUSIC NEWS) "To the Teacher: "The sequence of lesson suggestions is designed so that a teacher can use all or any part of it, with one or more classes. The twelve musical selections pay tribute to all seven continents, the oceans, the mountains and the desert. [...] "Several pages are devoted to each musical selection. The Student Book consists of related activity pages and additional background information for each composition. Emphasis in the Student Book is on providing a variety of opportunities for active individual and group involvement, cooperative learning and higher-level questioning which encourages critical thinking skills. Also included are creative projects in music and cross-curricular connections to other subject areas such as whole language, science, social studies and so on. [...] "The first half of the teaching notes for each composition has been developed for use by either a classroom or music teacher, or by both working together. It includes such topics as 'Getting to Know the Music', 'Classroom Extensions' and 'Ecological Insights'. The information provided has been carefully researched and is designed to assist the teacher. "The second half, labeled 'Musical Discoveries', provides suggestions and material geared towards creating a workable setting for musical improvisation by the student, based on musical understandings gained from listening to each selection of the recording. Although these require musical expertise on the part of the teacher, any of the ideas could also be used by a musically-trained classroom teacher. Each selection's teaching notes begins with a brief description of possible Outcome-based Objectives (including suggestion for portfolio assessments) and ends with a section entitled FINAL EXPERIENCE, in which a culminating creative experience is more completely described. [...]." |
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