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• Has been found to bolster the im- mune system and has been em- ployed to alleviate many disorders, from stress to fatigue to pain.
No doubt a conversation with a music therapist would reveal many more ways we can benefit from music listening, and no doubt you have seen first-hand the positive effects of music listening in your everyday practice!
2016–17 Pieces for Musical Wellbeing The iListenWI Committee has developed 11 outcome-based listening lesson plans this year to help you give students experi- ence and a foundation of music listening that will serve them with musical well- being for a lifetime.
Digital and Hard Copy Formats
The lesson plans are similarly formatted for ease of use; stating outcomes, styles, timbres, forms, Wisconsin State Stan- dards, National Core Music Standards and formative and summative assessments. The plans are available in digital form via
wmeamusic.org/iListenWI as well as in hard copy form (125 pages of material, including dozens of resources and links to additional information that arrives ready to place into a three-ring binder). The committee (consisting of Aimee Swanson, Julie Ropers-Rosendahl, Darin Menk, Carolyn Atwell, Matt Lamb and co-chair Sharon Gilbert) has produced a volume that is organized to fit a teacher’s current needs with regard to various educational frameworks, while providing engaging plans and resources for quality music listening from a variety of composers and styles that will add healthy balance to a kindergarten through middle level music curriculum! While plan outcomes can be geared toward lower or middle levels, they are all easily adaptable to the spectrum of levels.
These 11 pieces are included in this year’s theme, “Animals” and except for one (with an expanded, updated plan), all pieces are new to iListenWI repertoire:
Wisconsin School Musician
• “Hotaru Koi” (Firefly), Japanese folk song
• “The Goldfinch Concerto,” Vivaldi • “The Lark Quintet,” Haydn • “The Trout Quintet,” Schubert • “Afternoon of a Faun,” Debussy • “Shepherd’s Hey,” Grainger • “Dance of the Firebird,” Stravinsky • “Viper’s Drag,” Fats Waller
• “Chavela” from Fiddler on the Roof, Jerry Bock
• “Gus” from CATS, Andrew Lloyd Weber
• “Snoopy Does the Samba,” Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Getting Fit With Firebird
One of the outcomes for “Dance of the Firebird” includes understanding a ballet as a story told by dance and music without words. Students explore the elements of a folktale/fairytale and discover those ele- ments in the Firebird story. They discuss dancers who have portrayed the Firebird through history, including the first Afri- can American principal ballerina, Misty Copeland of American Ballet Theatre. Her personal story of reaching this pinnacle even though coming to ballet training late (at age 13) is inspiring a new generation of dancers. Stravinsky’s music provides opportunities for students to move to the music, listen, analyze, create and express.
Every piece on the list holds different possibilities to expand musical learning for students. While teaching may require certain prescribed formats or components, all of the pieces offer the possibilities for musical freedom for those elements which we hold valuable and dear – self-expres- sion, creativity and the chance to be “in the moment” with an art form that celebrates our humanity! How fortunate music teachers are, despite all the other paper and administrative tasks which currently compound the workload during already busy days, that we can share something so intrinsic to human wellbeing!
“…the iListenWI
Committee reminds you to enhance your life and the lives of your students with music listening!”
We invite you to resolve anew to use a few precious moments of class time to tune up for the New Year by remembering to involve students in music listening that will not only open new avenues of learning for them, but also enhance their listening wellness every day.
To conclude, a few quotes regarding lis- tening… with a wish from the iListenWi Committee that your 2017 is filled with wellness, love and music! Please contact us with questions or great listening ideas you’d like to share!
“We have to teach them (our students) how to listen if we are going to make them true music lovers.”
~ Joseph Machlis
“Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.” ~ Eric Clapton
“Just imagine, the thousands and thousands of concerts that take place every single day, all over the world. And the positive effect that they have on the people listening. Now imagine a world without this. This void…it is unthinkable.”
~ Zubin Mehta
“I can’t listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.”
~ Woody Allen
Jackie Vandenberg recently retired from teach- ing K-4 music at Jackson Elementary (West Bend School District). Email:
jacalynhvandenberg@gmail.com
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