TANITA SWANEPOEL

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Elements of music and how to teach them to FP learners

8 Sep 2021, 18:54 Publicly Viewable

There are 3 main choice to consider when teaching music, namely indigenous African music, Western Art music, and Contemporary commercial music. It would be ideal to use each of these types of music in the learning environment, but if I had to choose which type of music I would use in teaching music concepts, I would choose Contemporary commercial music. This is because this type of music would include songs the learners would be interested in on a social level. This interest will promote active participation and create a link between the content learned and the learners' daily lives and interests.

The examples in the study unit was fairly inclusive, but still mainly consisted of mainly English and African songs, which may all be from the same language. There were very few Afrikaans songs and those included were often paired with English songs. It would be more ideal to specify which language the music is in for indigenous African music and if a few traditional Afrikaans songs were included. 

A teacher could also diversify her musical repertoire by asking learners and parents to bring examples of their culture's music to class, preferably being able to perform it for the teacher or with a recording of somebody singing the song or playing the music. The teacher can then incorporate this music into the teaching techniques learned in this study unit.