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Rhythm Games for Perception and Cognition (Revised Edition) |
Author: Robert M. Abramson
Published: 1973-06 |
List price: $19.95
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As of: December 03rd, 2008 04:47:28 PM
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Customer comments on this selection.
 Unmusical and uninspiring
I bought this hoping for new ideas to explore rhythm and movement in the classroom and was very dissappointed. Most of these games are uninspired (just walking to a beat) and mostly repeat each other (for example one game may be just to walk to a beat and the next is exactly the same but a little faster!).
Even worse is that these games do not encourage any sort of musicallity in the children. In fact, most of these games actually expect the children to react a split second after the teachers beat. For example, in chapter 3, game 1 children are expected to freeze when the teacher creates an accented beat except that in one version of the game no clue is given as to when the accent comes and accents are played at irregular intervals. When there is a game involving getting faster or slower the children are expected to keep up - again they can only ever be behind the beat as they will never truely know when the beat will fall. All of the impetus comes from the teacher and there is little, if no, musical demands from the children. Surely if the children were singing a song themselves and walking to their own beats this would encourage better musicianship than dry exercises initiated by the teacher on a drum or playing a CD (which, by the way, is a poor recording).
Generally, an example of very poorly thought out activities that are truly unmusical.
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