As Winds Dance
Grade 2
© 2012, GIA Publications, Inc
Item #: B-B07203 Status: Available
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Description:
This bundle includes:
1. A digital PDF of the Teacher Resource Guide from the Teaching Music textbook
2. An mp3 recording of the work
The piece was conceived as a teaching tool to help students learn the concept of syncopation. The composer writes in his notes from the published score by Boosey & Hawkes:
I can still hear my college sight-singing professor, Dr. Louis Munkachy, telling us, in his thick Hungarian accent, “Repetition is the mother of knowledge.” For every bit of truth this statement holds, it is equally true that repetition is the natural enemy of the eleven- to thirteen- year-old. Their motto more resembles: I did it great once; therefore, greatness must flow from me. So, in trying to compose a piece that painlessly introduced middle level students to syncopation, I knew that repetition had to be present, but disguised so as not to look like something instructive. Moreover, the students would need to perceive (on their own) that the musical needs of the piece dictated how many times a syncopated pattern would recur. I believe that balance exists in “As Winds Dance.”
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