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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 . Requires
Acrobat Reader to view.
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.
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.