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Ready to Read: 4 Steps for Developing Proficiency (Music Education Basics)
Welcome back to Music Education Basics!Today, we’re talking about readiness for music-reading and developing proficiency.Just like learning to read language, music-reading follows listening and responding, developing a musical vocabulary, and active musical experiences in a natural progression, as we’ve been reviewing this week.If you’re a choir director or an elementary music teacher, I recommend introducing music-reading (as in holding a score in your hand) around 2nd or 3rd grade. We tend to introduce music-reading a little sooner in one-on-one settings — piano lessons or other beginning…
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