We all remember school ‘Music Appreciation’ lessons which simply involved listening to a piece of music in stony silence and then writing about how it uses musical elements to achieve certain desired outcomes. Many of us are probably still recovering.
The listening activities in Instant Primary Music Lessons are a powerful antidote to this. They cover a broad spectrum from the barely-active doodle-and-listen to the highly-active full-body-percussion. Movement is a very welcome driving force. Many activities are imaginative, musical, full of learning potential and link well to other art-forms; the feel of long and short notes is linked to poetry and morse code, for example, while other activities link to storytelling, art and mythology.
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