3 Specific Responses to Music

AWARENESS
– Calming to a familiar voice
– Deeply breathe and vocalize when a song is energetic
– Become agitated when dissonance is created
TRUST
– Moves repetitively to a rhythm
– Show pleasure in hearing a familiar song
– Look around when a song stops
INDEPENDENCE
– Sing in glissando patterns
– Move with intent to music beats
– Demonstrate a preference for certain songs
CONTROL
– Match pitches
– Bang loud and fast
– Make purposeful choices
RESPONSIBILITY
– Sing in melodic contour
– Sing parts of recalled songs
– Can choose to play loud or soft

Hi Everyone,

Don’t forget to save your responses in a text or word processing file so that you have them when you are moving on into early childhood music therapy work.

Music Developmental Level of Awareness: Turn their head towards a sound source; relax their entire body and take deep breaths when hearing calm and rhythmic music ; reach towards an instrument that is presented to them.
Music Developmental Level of Trust: when silence is presented, the child may look towards the source that was previously making the sound; play the instrument that is presented; recognizes and responds to melodic changes.
Music Developmental Level of Independence: while singing with another person, the child will imitate different vocalizations; the child recognizes familiar music despite the instrumentation; strums a guitar with the music therapist.
Music Developmental Level of Control: a child will sing short phrases with the music therapist of familiar songs; plays instruments at several different tempos; the child starts to move their entire body to the music-they want to dance along to the music!
Music Developmental Level of Responsibility: the child will start to create their own/new songs; will identify emotions of songs; take turns playing an instrument

Awareness: Turning eye gaze to source of music, tolerate being moved to music, differentiate between silence and music through movement and vocalization.
Trust: Will begin to vocalize in response to music, will play a drum to internal beat, adjust vocalizations to communicate
Independence: Isolates body parts to move rhythmically, begins experimenting with dynamics, explores instruments purposefully
Control: Dances spontaneously to music, sings song fragments, and will do learned dance moves
Responsibility: Follows pulse of familiar songs, differentiates between loud and soft and can demonstrate, listens to the play of others

Awareness: turn eye gaze toward the source of singing, calm to familiar melodies, alter movements in response to the sound of an instrument.
Trust: make purposeful pitched vocalizations in response to music, show pleasure to familiar music, repeat a series of simple interval patterns.
Independence: babble using melodic intonation, use vocal glissando, use simple word sounds in familiar songs.
Control: sing two words in phrases using pitched intervals, use ascending and descending intervals when singing, adjust quality of vocalizaitons to match the mood of the music.
Responsibility: coordinate breathing, posture, and muscle tone to sustain sound, regulate vocal quality to match the dynamics of the music, participate in musical “call and response” with an adult.