Abstract

HE present study was designed to develop a more simple and adequate approach to the teaching of music to nursery school children by reducing music to its elements; namely, tone and rhythm. The procedure involved training in pitch and rhythmic discrimination. The aim was not to train the child to compose or to create, but to appreciate and to reproduce if music proved a satisfying form of self-expression. The problem was undertaken because, after four year's experience as a kindergarten teacher, the writer found that in general, the approach to musical training for young children was too complex. Music should be presented in its most simple form both in tone and rhythm, and when the child's capacity and interest permit, should gradually grow to a more complex form. Also, the writer felt that there should not be so many musically uninterested children. Music should

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