Course Content (Syllabus)
In the theoretical part of the course, the basic goal is students to acquire basic theoretical musical knowledge. In the practical-workshop part of the course the most important goal is the students, based on the theoretical knowledge they have acquired in music theory, to practice, develop, and improve their performing skills with the metallophone (or other instrument) as well as singing accurately (from a score), musical pieces and mostly songs for children in the first primary grades. In Detail:
A) In the theoretical part of the course: Music Theory: Sound properties, Musical Staff, Music Clefs, Notes, Note values, Ties and Slurs, Rests, Time Signatures, Bars, Bar Lines, Up Beat, Strong and weak parts of the measure, Meter, Kinds of Meters, Accidentals, Tones, Semitones, Enharmonic notes, Key Signatures, Major Scales, Minor Scales (natural, harmonic and melodic), Pentatonic Scales, and Transpose.
B) In the practical-workshop part of the course: Rhythmic score reading and counting with hand movements depending on the time signature. Rhythmic and Melodic Solfège. Exercises to build performing skills in the metallophone, first individually and later on in duets performing specifically songs for children for the first primary grades. Exercises in singing with examples of children’s songs. Building a repertoire of children’s songs. Combined from theory and praxis: Studying the content of the official music textbooks and the songs anthology book for primary schools, students have to choose and present a lesson and its activities in the classroom and describe if and why the teaching goals set in the lesson would be achieved.
Additional bibliography for study
-Γρηγορίου, Μ.(1994). Μουσική για παιδιά και για έξυπνους μεγάλους – Α’ τόμος. Αθήνα: Νεφέλη.
-Δαμιανού- Μαρίνη, Ε. (1998). Βασικές μεθοδολογικές αρχές για την εφαρμογή των Μουσικοπαιδαγωγικών ιδεών του Zoltán Kodály. Μουσική Εκπαίδευση,3(1),30-36.
-Καψάσκη – Μακρή, Σ. Αγγ.(2009).Τα πρώτα μου τραγούδια- ανθoλογία παιδικών τραγουδιών. Αθήνα: Μελωδία- Καψάσκη.
-Μόσχος, Κ., Τουμπακάρη, Ν., Τόμπλερ, Μ. (2009). Μουσικό ανθολόγιο Α΄-ΣΤ΄ Δημοτικού. Αθήνα: ΟΕΔΒ – Παιδαγωγικό Ινστιτούτο.
-Μουζακίτης, Χ. (2010). Το αλφαβητάρι της στοιχειώδους θεωρίας της μουσικής. Αθήνα: Edition Orpheus, Νικολαΐδης Μ.
-Σαμαράς, Κ. (1990). Θεωρία της Μουσικής Τεύχος 1ο. Θεσσαλονίκη: ΝΤΟΡΕΜΙ
-Τα σχολικά εγχειρίδια μουσικής όλων των τάξεων του δημοτικού σχολείου.
-Συναφή επιστημονικά περιοδικά: Μουσική Εκπαίδευση, Ρυθμοί, Μουσικοπαιδαγωγικά.