Learning through Movement
Learning at this stage is based on perception and muscular feedback. Knowing is how to move and handle things. They demonstrate interest in objects for the object itself and not the purpose of the object. The child's main form of expression is through movement.
Early Childhood Class Session Video
(http://cbs11tv.com/video/?id=11386@ktvt.dayport.com)
Learning like Language
The process of learning language and learning music is very similar. Just like with language, the primary need for the first year of life in learning music is listening. An informal structure of learning is required. When a child begins to speak he or she babbles a mixture of sounds that are imitating things that they have heard. Eventually by the age of 3 the child begins to rearrange these familiar words in an unfamliar order by improvising. (Gordon, 1999)
"Children also go through stages of music babble, in which they make sounds that typically do not make musical sense to adults. In tonal babble the child sings in a speaking voice quality. In rhythm babble she moves erratically, without consistent tempo or discernible meter."
Preparatory
Audiation
| TYPE | STAGE |
| Acculturation Birth to age 2-4: Engages with little consciousness of the environment. |
Absorption: Hears and aurally collects the sounds of music in the environment. |
| Random Response: Moves and babbles in response to, but without relation to, the sounds of music in the environment. | |
| Purposeful Response: Tries to relate movement and babble to the sounds of music in the environment. |
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