SKU: GI.G-9968
Theory and Practice
for Middle School General
Music. Composed by
Frank Abrahams. Music
Education. 222 pages. GIA
Publications #9968.
Published by GIA
Publications (GI.G-9968).
ISBN
9781622774500.
This
book serves to be a
road-map for
today’s music
educators who are tasked
with promoting and
fulfilling a rich arts
curriculum, while still
understanding and
incorporating the
realities and skill sets
required in current and
future job markets.
Aligning Music to STEM
challenges teachers and
administrators to rethink
the structure of
traditional music
education, as well as
encourages universities
to reimagine how they
train music educators. It
motivates schools and
universities to explore
their curricula designs
and how ideas and lesson
plans are being
differentiated to promote
the integration of STEM
in the music classroom.
This text outlines ways
that we can carefully
redesign curricula and
explore new approaches
that aim to provide
students with new
opportunities to
problem-solve, create,
collaborate, and
experience the world.
Abrahams concludes that
as current educators, it
is our responsibility to
promote new ideas for
teaching and learning
that lead students to a
successful, creative
life. —Jamie
Sokolowski   Vice
Principal, Molin Middle
School  Â
Newburyport,
Massachusetts Frank
Abrahams is Associate
Dean and Professor of
Music Education at
Westminster Choir College
of Rider University in
Princeton, New Jersey.
His most current research
centers on aligning music
instruction to STEM.
These are described in
his books Planning
Instruction in Music and
Becoming Musical,
co-authored with Ryan
John and published by
GIA. With Paul Head, he
is the author of Case
Studies in Music
Education, published by
GIA, and the Oxford
Handbook of Choral
Pedagogy (Oxford
University Press).