Study unit 2 focuses on the type of musical concepts and musical activities .We learned how music concepts can be responded to by using music .Music education offered ways in reaching many goals but we must also understand that learners differ in many ways hence we can try to address their differences by encouraging them to engage with all their senses while learning music .

Musical elements 

musical elements are building blocks in music ,there are different musical elements in which when you mix them all together you can create music. The following are basic elements of music.

• Duration of tone-  the length in time of a sound. Duration of tone includes beat,meter,rhythm and tempo.
• Pitch of tone- Pitch of tone is the sound of music ,it is the high and low in music.
• intensity of tone - Intensity of tone is how soft or loud a music is 
• Quality of tone -  The quality of an instrument ,knowing when someone a certain instrument without having to look at it is the quality of tone 
• texture - texture refers to the thin or thickness of sound in music .knowing how thick or thin a sound is by listening to music is texture

Music education approaches 

Approaches that can be used in teaching music are that of Carl Orff’s  ,Zoltàn Kodály and Emile Jamie’s - Dalcroze . Carl Orff’s used music,play,dancing and speech in his approach because he believed learners have innate musical abilities that’s needs to be cared for he also focused on holistic development (Marx 2018) . Zoltán Kodály’s approach focused on promoting musical development through active participation in music listening,movement and singing (Marx 2018) .

Reggio Emilia approach focused more on learners than teachers ,it emphasises how learners should do things for themselves in order to achieve in life . Dalcroze draws focus to teaching rhythm ,structure and musical expression through Movements