Got MaL?

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Got MaL?

• The Irreplaceable Duo

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What is Music and Literacy?

• MaL Music and literacy, the development of
  language skills through music.

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The Relationship Between Music and Literacy

• The relationship between these two begin at
  birth. When the fetus hears its mothers
  heartbeat, to saying its first words, music and
  literacy is born. It becomes a part of our
  culture from inception.

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Students Learn Through Experience.
Creating music as a result.
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Music is your own experience, your thoughts,
your wisdom. If you dont live it, it wont come
out of your horn. - Charlie Parker (American
Jazz Saxophonist and Composer)
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Language is Action through Song

• Engaging students in language through music.
• Songs help students put language concepts like
  letters, vowels,consonants, words, phrases, into
  action using rhythms and musical phrases.
• Songs also encourage creativity by engaging
  students to think how words relate through sound
  and meaning.

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The discovery of song and the creation of
musical instruments both owed their origin to a
human impulse which lies much deeper than
conscious intention the need for rhythm in
life the need is a deep one, transcending
thought, and disregarded at our peril. Richard
Baker (British Composer and Conductor)
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Music IS Literacy
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Literacy IS Music

• Music reading encourages students to decode
  letters, symbols, and numbers.
• Reading and performance occurs simultaneously.
  Enforcing literal concepts while creating music!

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Music is Poetry

• One good thing about music, when it hits, you
  feel no pain. -Bob Marley (Jamaican Reggae
  Musician and Composer)
• Music speaks what can not be expressed, soothes
  the mind and gives it rest, heals the heart and
  makes it whole, flows from the heavens to the
  soul. -Unknown

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Music is poetry of the Air. -Franz Richter
(German Composer)
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Music and Literacys Connection

• There is a deep connection between music and
  literacy that can not be removed or replaced.
• Music communicates language in numerous ways.
• Hmmmm. This reminds me of one word

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LOVE!
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By Nyasha RhodenSummer 2007, NYU, Steinhardt
SchoolDr. Gilbert