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About 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
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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

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.

NEW!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 Anthroposophy.  By Catherine Read.   Reprinted from News for Members, the newsletter of the Anthroposophical Society in America, Winter, 2007.

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.




 


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