Bach to the Future: Fostering Music Literacy Today
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (628 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0692729348 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 547 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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This book is for you.Once a culture restores the priority of training its people in music, the task shifts to finding what type of instruction should be present in formal school education. Is it working? Is it doing what it should be doing? What is that goal in the first place? Or maybe you are a parent, wondering how to put your child or yourself on the path to music literacy. Maybe your program is running, but you have no idea how to drive it, give it a long vision and productive implementation. Whatever your role in this endeavor, this book will offer tools to again bring musicians like Bach to the future. In t
"I'm thankful to be able to recommend this well-written and timely handbook to everyone who falls" according to Megan Larson. This book is for believers who have a leadership role over children--parents, teachers, school administrators, and the church. It makes the case and points the way for a return to music literacy as a part of our everyday lives, much as was the case in Bach's day, for the sake of seeing a generation capable of producing glorious music for God and for His people. In a time when music literacy is uncommon in the Church as much as anywhere, this is a needed message.Even though I have been a music teacher for two and a half years professionally and for numerous years. An Excellent Resource with a Long-term, Biblical Vision Bach to the Future is an excellent resource for music educators, career musicians and worship pastors alike, especially those with a Christ-centered worldview. The book offers a solid argument for music for music's sake within the context of creation and our role as image-bearers of the Triune God. Richey lays out the necessary components for complete and balanced music literacy as opposed to occasional musical performance based on a single aspect of learning. Within these pages, I hear the call of God to the Church to return to being joyful, singing people who . Five Stars This book was great. Also a great gift
Or perhaps you are an administrator hoping to start a music program at your school. This book is for you. Once a culture restores the priority of training its people in music, the task shifts to finding what type of instruction should be present in formal school education. Is it working? Is it doing what it should be doing? What is that goal in the first place? Or maybe you are a parent, wondering how to put your child or yourself on the path to music literacy. Maybe your program is running, but you have
He is an active choir clinician and also serves on the executive board of the Louisiana chapters of the Organization of American Kodály Educators and the American Choral Directors Association. Jarrod and his lovely wife, Sarah, have five young choristers in training. He is the founder and director of the Delta Youth Chorale, a children's community choir that promotes music literacy through sin