As has been mentioned
earlier, if Christian music educators wish for music to be considered with the
same respect as other classes in the curriculum, it must actually be academic. If students who graduate from Christian
schools are going to actually be educated musically then they must be musically
literate. Music literacy requires that
each student must be able to read, write and perform music (see voluntary national
standards mentioned earlier).
Sometime during the
second half of the twentieth century many music educators accepted the lackluster
theory that playing music which has been learned by rote on: Orff instruments,
recorders, rhythm band instruments, or learning and singing choral music
without being able to utilize conventional counting or note reading was evidence
that an elementary student was musically educated. I want to make it very clear that I am not
speaking of children who are in kindergarten or the lower elementary grades.
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