Navigating Music Education in Ghana: A Guide to Composition, Performance and Listening for Primary School Teachers | Chapter 3 | Progress in Language, Literature and Education Research Vol. 4

Music as a subject of study is a strand of the Creative Arts curriculum content for teaching, learning and assessment in primary schools in Ghana. Composition, performance and listening which play pivotal roles in music activities form integral part of the methods and strategies that are supposed to be employed to teach these arts form to provide musical knowledge, skills and understanding to primary school learners. Elsewhere, it is argued that these three musical processes constitute the starting point of music activities in the primary school classroom. Having some knowledge and practical insight of each of these processes is therefore very significant for teachers’ professional practice and development in the music classroom. This article attempts to describe these processes and highlight some activities that can serve as a guide for the teacher to engage primary school learners in music activities under each of these three interrelated activities for effective musical learning and experiences. Challenges affecting effective music education in the primary schools include teachers’ lack of adequate knowledge and skills in teaching, inadequate trained teachers to teach music in the primary schools and lack of musical instruments to support teaching and learning. It is suggested to educational planners and authorities to plan and implement in-service training for primary school teachers to equip them in the provision of effective music education to pupils. It is also suggested to primary school authorities and teachers to find innovative ways to acquire the needed teaching and learning materials to ensure an effective music education in the primary school.

Author(s) Details:

Benjamin Adjepong,
Wesley College of Education, Kumasi, Ghana.

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The Perspective of Physiotherapist on Playing Related Musculoskeletal Disorder among Amateur Piano Players| Chapter 6 | Perspective of Recent Advances in Medical Research Vol. 5

 Music is an essential factor of any pleasure; Music plays a key role in connecting hearing’s expectation accompanying reality. Musician is the one, the one brings history to music through skill of his playing. In the old age 18th century the first creation of piano known as competence piano was fictitious by Bartolomeo Cristofori. In 20th century the upright and small grand piano were coined and delivered in market. To most of all music is often seen as fun and safe task without posing some harm to the body. There is a chance for musicians to contract an illness injuries. Pianist is prone harms due to character of musical practice. The present research has shown that Prevalence of PRMD between pianist has been stated in the range of 25%to 93%. The piano an acoustical lyrical instrument from a French origin is appealed to and learned by many children’s across the sphere. Posture plays a vital role in keyboard, correct balance and posture may attain tension free playing. A instrument player entertains the hearing in a form of lullaby sounds that are pleasant, harmonized; the journey of a player from amateur to professional is hard on someone as much we think, each chapter of learning subsists many trails, exams, rehearsals. The main objective of this book search out prevent performing related musculoskeletal disorder between amateur musician that can significantly prevent their career and quit adoration. This book concludes that many researches has expected conducted indifferent geographical part of India accompanying distinct agents in bringing out consequence of the term PRMD from puzzle to history and allow children’s dream may not be shattered unhappy by it.

Author(s) Details:

Ashish Mathew A,
SRM College of Physiotherapy, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, SRM Nagar, Kattankulathur-603203, Kanchipuram,Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

S. F. Mariyam Farzana,
SRM College of Physiotherapy, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, SRM Nagar, Kattankulathur-603203, Kanchipuram,Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

T. N. Suresh,
SRM College of Physiotherapy, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, SRM Nagar, Kattankulathur-603203, Kanchipuram,Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

T. S. Veeragoudhaman,
SRM College of Physiotherapy, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, SRM Nagar, Kattankulathur-603203, Kanchipuram,Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

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Study on General Methods of Teaching Music in the Primary School | Chapter 8 | Modern Perspectives in Language, Literature and Education Vol. 10

Music is taught to students in a variety of methods. The literature describes a variety of teaching methods, tactics, and strategies. Teaching music is an art and a skill that requires teachers to combine or integrate some of these methods and strategies in order to give students with productive learning experiences. Efforts to change music education toward a more constructivist approach have far-reaching ramifications for policymakers at all levels of the music education system. The purpose of this article is to provide overviews of various general approaches and strategies for teaching music in the primary school based on constructivist teaching theory. It will cover lecture, demonstration, and modelling, as well as discovery, video showing, field trip, role-playing, project, questioning technique, assignment, and discovery teaching methods. The paper will also discuss the factors that influence the choice of a teaching style for a certain lesson, as well as the stages of teaching.

Author(S) Details

Benjamin Adjepong
Wesley College of Education, Kumasi, Ghana.

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The Role of Traditional Musical Instruments During Bapedi People’s Religious and Cultural Practices: The Case of Selected Membranophones and Aerophones | Chapter 11 | Selected Topics in Humanities and Social Sciences Vol. 5

 The study's major goal was to look into how three Bapedi traditional musical instruments are used in religious and cultural practises. Meropa (drums), dinaka (whistles and reed pipes), and phalafala (reed pipes) are the instruments used (sable antelope horn). Both vocal and instrumental dance ensembles, as well as festivals, religious rites, and funeral processions, regularly use Bapedi musical instruments. There are many rites in traditional Bapedi society. Some are referred to as rites of passage because they are related with human life cycles. Others are held in times of distress, such as when people are sick or when there is a drought. Others are seasonal and have to do with planting or harvesting crops. The objective of these rites is to maintain the balance of cosmic power. The primary source of information was oral interviews. Secondary sources include things like books and records. Other methods included photographing various instruments, watching films of performances, and conducting semi-structured interviews with nine (9) traditional musicians. As a result, this study was led by the following research question: what are the religious and cultural functions of meropa (drums), dinaka (whistles and reed pipes), and phalafala (sable antelope horn) during Bapedi religious and cultural practises? The goal of this contribution is to demonstrate that Bapedi religious and cultural traditions are not superstitious, magical, pagan, or bad in any way. The findings revealed that the three traditional musical instruments analysed have different effects on the social, religious, and cultural activities of Bapedi community. Despite the fact that all three play a part, it was discovered that drums are the most important in religious and cultural practises.

Author (S) Details

Morakeng Edward Kenneth Lebaka
Department of Creative Arts, Faculty of Arts, University of Zululand – KwaDlangezwa Campus, South Africa.

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Rhythm of Communication in the Structure of Communicative Didactical Activity of the Physical Education Teacher and the method of its Formation | Book Publisher International

 The regulations and norms of educational technology guide the teacher's didactic activity. In this context, the concept of "rhythm" takes on further significance, as it establishes a specific order and frequency of acts for both teachers and students.

In the preliminary phase of the physical education lesson, the monograph gives a programme targeted at forming the rhythm of the teacher's didactic speech. There are shown excerpts of three typical lectures developed on challenges from three specific course themes. The content of practical lessons was created using an established algorithm for pedagogical skill development in the didactic speech rhythm in a physical education lesson: movement + speech + speech.

The offered scheme exhibits the following system of pedagogical skill formation: motor action rhythm and coordination – motor action and speech rhythm, as well as their coherence – didactic speech rhythm.

In the course of following practical testing, the efficiency of the designed course-methodology was proven.

Author(s) Details

Aftimichuk Olga
State University of Physical Education and Sports, Moldova.

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A Missing Link between Musicology and Music? New Insights from the Philosophy of Complexity and the Musical Heuristics | Chapter 1 | Selected Topics in Humanities and Social Sciences Vol. 2

 The purpose of this chapter is to argue for the inclusion of Edgar Morin's philosophical principles of complexity as supplements to the musical panoply of analyses and interpretations derived from musical semiology and musicology. In this way, such analyses can be given a new critical approach, adopting a polysemic attitude that is better suited than the current one to convey the full richness of the musical phenomenon, particularly in terms of its fluidity and dynamics. The first section of the article attempts to define the boundaries of Jean-Jacques Nattiez's musical semiology, as well as the analyses. as a result of it We will investigate the concept of musical work in depth, examining the components of its complexity that prevent a reductive operation between the score and the work. The second section of the chapter is concerned with the reconstruction of musical works, which is proposed on the basis of Musical Heuristics, allowing for "embodied" knowledge of the reference pieces and thus supplementing the analyses derived from musical semiology. In conclusion, my paper attempts a musical application of the three underlying principles of complexity philosophy.

Author (S) Details

Mandolini Ricardo
University to Lille “Sciences Humaines Et Sociales”, France.

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Reporting Case Studies: The Effects of Familiar, Unfamiliar Music and Audiobooks Exposure on Speech Parameters of Elderly With Alzheimer’s Disease | Chapter 10| Current Topics in Medicine and Medical Research Vol. 7

 Alzheimer's disease is a widespread elderly cognitive condition where neurodegeneration happens quickly as a result of reduced brain function. In patients with Alzheimer's disease, there have been several studies connecting music memory with cognition. This multiple case study (n=3) aims to examine the impact of familiar and unfamiliar music on the fundamental frequency of speech (F0), range of intensity, and speech rate of 3 elderly Alzheimer's disease participants. The speech parameters were measured longitudinally over a span of 21 weeks following exposure to common and unfamiliar music. A listening assignment to an audiobook was viewed as supervision. Data showed that there was wide variability in performance in all of these topics, with no common trend for familiar music. For unfamiliar music, however, two subjects showed an improvement in their speech output. The third topic showed a rise in the F0 range. It is proposed that there could be further understanding of how common and new stimuli affect the development of speech in Alzheimer's disease patients. The findings also indicate that unfamiliar music can have a substantial impact on the speech rate of subjects with AD, but the long-term influence of music on the speech production of these patients with Alzheimer's disease is difficult to assess. Instead, the findings suggested that in Alzheimer's disease patients there could be more to consider how familiar and novel stimuli affect speech development.

Author(s) Details

Fidelia Chan Xue Ning
Hearing & Speech Sciences Program, Faculty of Health Sciences, The National University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Siti Zamratol Mai-Sarah Mukari
Institute of Ear, Hearing & Speech, The National University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Kartini Ahmad
Hearing&Speech Sciences Program, Faculty of Health Sciences, TheNational University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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