PANGASINAN STATE UNIVERSITY-INFANTA CAMPUS

Bachelor of Elementary Education

1. Reflect on the importance of music to education and teaching.

Answer:

Music Education and Teaching plays a vital role to nurture students in many ways. Music
can blooms the learners confident and carry over into many other areas of their life, open doors
to travel and careers and generally create a great deal of happiness.

The importance of music to education and teaching is that it helps the learners to
developed language and reasoning, mastery of memorization, students learn to improve their
work, increased students coordination, sense of students achievement, fine-tuned auditory
skills, music builds imagination and intellectual curiosity, music can be relaxing, music
instrument can teach discipline, it prepare students for creative economy, developed creative
thinking, it can developed spatial intelligence, responsible risk-taking and it helps students for a
better communication of students. Music helps the mental and spiritual of well-being, it is
proven that listening to or playing certain kind of music helps individual to relax, reduce stress
and focus on their works. Also, music makes considerable contribution to enhancing the health
of human beings. For these reason music will always be an essential subjects that humans
should not ignore. It helps music to find inner peace and support doing activities and facing
challenges.

I believe that the importance of music to education and teaching would create a big
help to the learners which music might not be only a subject that directly helps students in their
future career, however, music can give important contribution to humans spiritual and mental
health which makes it indispensable.
2. Choose one Music Theorist and explain how his study could help you in teaching music to
your future learners.

Answer:

I choose Edwin E. Gordon music theorist, I know that it will help me to teach music to
my future learners. Audiation is the foundation of musicianship which it takes place when we
hear and comprehend music for which sound is no longer or may never have been present.

Through Audiation, learning music by ear is done by repeatedly listening to other

musicians and it involves hearing sounds mentally. We discover music learning as never ending,
ever deepening process for music expression and enjoyment. I can teach my learners to
developed their audiation skills that they may engage in music imitation as they learn rhytmn
chants, songs, rhythm patterns and tonal patterns but they also engage in music
comprehension as they compare the music they have heard or music that they are predicting
they will hear. The audiation is music thinking, and music thinking maybe expressed in several
ways that may involve, but go beyond, mere imitation.

I believe that Audiation is one way that helps me to teach music to my learners. I will
assist my learners in becoming independent musicians. When the children audiate, they do
more than remember pitches, intervals, durations and rhythm. Each human has the potential to
learn music through music. Ideally, informal music guidance and audiation developed begin as
early in life as possible.