The World Music Day, observed on June 21 every year,is a day dedicated to public celebration of music out in streets both by the Amateur and Professional musicians.
In cities and big towns, across the world, free concerts and musical performances are organized for the public free of charge in order to encourage people to learn and enjoy various art forms of music.
The observance also has the implications for teachers and educators to promote teaching of various disciplines for musical intelligence.
The musical intelligence is one of the multiple intelligences which has been proposed by Howard Gardner as a human ability to produce and appreciate rhythm, pitch and timbre or appreciation of the different forms of musical expressiveness through writing and rendering.
ABCs of developing musical intelligence during classroom instruction
Note: Writing and reciting ABC poems is a practical way of developing musical intelligence
A: Abilities of the right hemisphere that are related to rhythmic and tonal qualities of words
B: Begin by fostering intelligence by converting content into poetic prose or through musicalization of text
C: Chanting with a rhythm is useful for initial awakening of musical intelligence
D: Describing academic subject matter through pattern poetry develops musical intelligence through writing and rendering
E: Emergence of musical intelligence happens right from babyhood babblings followed by imitating listened music
For early childhood education, setting up of Music and Movement Area has been suggested with the the following provisions
- Recorded music and instruments that are reflective of children’s cultures.
- A variety of instruments made available for children’s use.
- Movement games that are characteristic of the culture that could be played with music.
- Musical instruments made with locally available materials, such as two coconut shells which can be used as cymbals, or a bottle containing rice grains can be used as percussion
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