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Music in Waldorf Schools
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Lecture:
The Inner Nature of music and the Experience of Tone
Rudolf Steiner’s esoteric lectures on the spiritual nature of
music. Essential reading for the Waldorf music teacher,
especially parts 5 & 6.
Overview of the Waldorf Music Curriculum -
full text available
for ANAWME members only
ANAWME president Andrea
Lyman offers a comprehensive overview of the
Waldorf music curriculum.
Music in a
Waldorf 1st Grade
Read the Grade 1 chapter from E. Lebret’s
Shepherd’s
Songbook . The book includes descriptions of music in
grades
1—3 and many songs. Its available from
the Waldorf
School Association of Ontario .
Text
© 2004, 1975 Elisabeth Lebret. All rights
reserved.
From Shepherd’s Songbook by E. Lebret, published by
the
Waldorf School Association of Ontario, 9100 Bathurst St., #2,
Thornhill, Ontario, Canada, L4J 8C7 ISBN
0-9686291-1-3
Learning, Arts, and
the Brain: t he Dana Consortium Report On Arts and Cognition
Brief summary of
research on the arts and cognition from an alliance committed to
furthering inquiry into brain science, immunology and education.
View
the full report on the DANA website.
Interview with Cari
Burdett -
full text available
for ANAWME members only
An musician and
anthroposophist shares her insights about music and young children.
Trading in
our Flutes
A snapshot view in lay terms of the early years of the Waldorf
music curriculum. By Jason Child, music director at Emerson Waldorf School
and vice-president of ANAWME.
Waldorf Music
Education: Education for Life
A bit about how Waldorf music education is different. Also by
Jason Child.
The Dorion School of
Music Therapy
About a
course that concentrates on the use of musical
instruments, traditional folk and orchestral instruments, as well as
the new
instruments arising out of Anthroposoph y .
By Catherine Read. Reprinted from News for Members, the
newsletter of the
Anthroposophical Society in
America , Winter, 20 07.
The Relevance
of Concert Pitch
How tuning affects the human being. By Patrick Thilmany of Nature's Song/Rose Lyre
Workshop .
The Rightful
Place of Music in the Life of the Child
Originally published by in Lilipoh
magazine.