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USC's
CHILDREN'S MUSIC
DEVELOPMENT
CENTER
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| Right now, many of the
children in our program are experiencing the acculturation stages. Those
children are continuing to build their listening vocabularies as they begin to
respond to music with their own vocal noises and body movements.
We are hearing many of
those children babble on the "resting tone" or the "dominant" pitch of
the tonalities they have been hearing in class. The resting tone
and the dominant pitches are those pitches that are common to each of the
tonalities used in our culture. By vocalizing on those pitches, your
child is beginning to function in the syntax the rest of us are using!
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| Type | Stage | |
| ACCULTURATION
From birth to age 2-4, each child engages with little consciousness of the environment. |
1. ABSORPTION Each child hears and aurally collects the sounds of music in the environment.
Each child tries to relate movement and babble to the sounds of music in the environment. |
| Acculturation
Imitation Assimilation (click on each link for details) |
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What is
Music Play?
What
is Preparatory Audiation?
Children's
Music Responses
More About Class Participation
Influential
Teacher
Music
Guidance vs. Music Instruction
Guidelines
for Participation
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