Chapter 1: Where and How to Make Music

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Creating a positive environment
From Making Music Live

Creating a sense of ritual can also have a calming effect and help you manage discipline. We need to honor children’s sense of play, but we also need to create basic discipline. Discipline need not mean the old hierarchical model of the oppressive teacher, but discipline does require a supportive…
Music as a part of ritual
From Making Music Live

Music for worship in the classroom setting can take a variety of directions. You can honor the traditional adult way of worshiping, with preludes, hymns, offertories, and postludes, or you can take many new directions. Whatever you do, give worship a sense of ritual. As you light the chalice, for…