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The Benefits of Aural Learning in the Elementary Music

Katy  Morgan  ~  MUED380  ~  Fall  2018  


Introduction
A  child’s  introduc>on  to  music  can  shape  how  they  will  see  and  build  a  rela>onship  with  music.  As  an  educator  we  focus  
on  teaching  them  to  read  music  and  perform  melodies  and    rhythm.  The  focus  rather  should  be  on  us  teaching  them  the  
skills  to  be  musicians  and  for  those  to  transfer  into  life  long  music  making.    

Review of Literature: Research Questions:


1.  Hansen,  D.  &  Milligan,  S.A.  (2012):  Explores  reasarch  of  four   1.  What  are  the  benefits  of  aural  learning?  
different  areas:  examining  the  significance  of  aural   Visual  learning?  
2.  What  are  ways  we  can  incorporate  aural  
discrimina>on  skills  in  language  and  music  learning,  their  
learning  into  the  elementary  music  
mutual  influence  on  reading  literacy  and  current  applica>on   classroom?  
at  the  primary  level  for  the  music  classroom.    
2.  Botstein,  L.  (1992):  The  wri>ng,  performance  and  hearing  of   Recommendations for Practice:
music  is  a  study  of  historical  analyses  in  the  way  language  
There  are  allot  of  ways  one  can  bring  this  
was  actually  used.    
into  the  classroom.  Begin  by  teaching  aurally.  
3.  Campbell,  P.  (1989):  This  ar>cle  discusses  how  all  forms  of   Some  teachers  use  call  and  response.  Some  
language  are  communicated  both  orally  and  in  wriYen  form.   research  has  shown  to  begin  with  crea>ve  
How  music  should  be  taught  in  the  exact  same  way  as  all   explora>on.  This  is  so  students  can  be  
languages,  which  is  star>ng  with  aural  before  adding   comfortable  being  expressive  from  the  
wriYen.     beginning.  Others  support  the  use  of  listening  
4.  Rogers.  G  (1996):  A  study  on  colored  nota>on,  proving  that   to  recordings  and  learning  based  off  of  those  
colored  nota>on  does  not  have  an  impact  on  learning  music.     recordings.    
5.  Gamso,  N.  M.  (2011):  The  Aural  Learning  Project  was  
developed  to  invorporate  jazz  method  components  into   Suggestions for Future Research:
classical  prac>ce.  Building  students  aural  skills  in  order  to   When it comes to research there is
create  beYer  musicians.     nothing that compares the teaching of
6.  Clauhs,  M.  (2018)  This  ar>cle  discusses  the  importance  of   music visually versus aurally. It is a very
hard thing to compare because students
teaching  musicianship  and  aural  skills  from  the  beginning  of  
developed different learning strategies
a  child’s  music  making  experience.     and preferences. However how can we
find a way to incorporate both into the
classroom from the beginning.
Remembering the importance of aural
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instrument properly.

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