Making Music in Montessori

Infused with a warm, affable tone, Making Music in Montessori is the Guide's guide to music education, providing Montessori teachers all at once a snappy, practical handbook, music theory mentor, pedagogical manual, and resource anthology.The book's goal: To give teachers confidence in music, so that when their children walk away from a lesson all fired up to compose their own music, their teacher will know how to guide them. Before Making Music in Montessori, teachers may have only dreamed of a classroom buzzing with children working, learning, and growing with music alongside all of the other subject areas in the Montessori curriculum. Now, it's a reality. If children's minds are a fertile field, then Making Music in Montessori will stir Montessori teachers of all musical backgrounds to don their overalls, roll up their sleeves, sow the musical seeds, and watch them blossom under their children's flaming imagination.

Michael Johnson, originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, is a songwriter, musician, cartoonist, and a Kodàly-trained Montessori educator with ten years of international experience managing elementary classrooms. From his home base in Paris, France, buoyed by an AMI Elementary diploma, which he received from the Montessori Institute of Milwaukee, and an M.A. in Music Education from Portland State University, Michael travels and leads music-teaching workshops at Montessori schools around the world.

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
PART 1: Your Musical Montessori Environment
Chapter 1: Yes, You Are Musical: Five Music Myths Debunked
Chapter 2: The Musician In You
Chapter 3: Preparing Your Environment
PART 2: All The Music Theory You'll Need to Know
Chapter 4: What Is Music, Anyway?
Chapter 5: First Steps: Scales and Modes
Chapter 6: Writing and Reading Music
Chapter 7: The House That Music Built: Musical Forms
PART 3: Going Beyond the Bells to Build Music Literacy
Chapter 8: Musical Concepts and Skills
Chapter 9: The Kodály Approach
Chapter 10: Putting it all Together
PART 4: Making Music in Montessori
Chapter 11: Activities for Follow Up
Chapter 12: Activities for Growth
Chapter 13: Spontaneous Performances
Chapter 14: 55 Songs to Read, Sing, Dance, and Play
Chapter 15: Cosmic Stories
Appendix A: Listening and Singing with Children
Appendix B: How to Teach a Song, Including Part Singing
Appendix C: How to Lead a Song
Appendix D: Music Grid Paper
Appendix E: Resource List
Appendix F: Scale and Chord Matching Table
Appendix G: Index of Songs
Bibliography
Author Bio