Outlines a list of outcomes that should result after completing elementary and secondary years of music education. Pg.___ Provides instructors with bases for class lectures and discussions, while offering students clear road maps for reaching learning objectives. Pg.___ Features 19 lessons that directly relate to the musical outcomes presented, offering a highly sequential music program in which singing, moving, listening, musical reading and writing, improvising and composing are the means through which students develop skills and acquire knowledge about melody, harmony, rhythm, form, tempo, timbre, and dynamics. Pg.___ Offers the most current, relevant teaching materials and the most effective pedagogical processes for the teaching of both students and instructors. Pg.

___ Affords the flexibility to enact lessons in class or in peer teaching situations. Pg.___ Features 15 ready-to-use, long-range listening strategies based on works from the art music repertory--Baroque to 20th Century. Pg.___ Suggests methods of presenting each strategy in a way that fosters an in-depth understanding of each work. Pg.___ Provides valuable listening charts to help guide the experience. Pg.

___ Presents pedagogical processes and techniques, songs, canons and composed works that have been class tested in actual classrooms with actual students. Pg.___.