Just Good Teaching: Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance in Theory and Practice

by Laura Sindberg

Student learning in school music ensembles is often focused on technical skill development. Give your students broader experience involving multiple music learnings, technical proficiency, cognition, and personal meaning. The Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance (CMP) model will help you plan instruction for school ensembles that promotes a holistic form of music learning and will allow you to use your creativity, passion, and vision. With model teaching plans and questions for discussion, this book can give you richer, more meaningful challenges and help you provide your students with deeper musical experiences. Sindberg combines the theoretical foundations of CMP with practical applications in a book that’s useful for practicing teacher-conductors, scholars, and teacher educators alike.

Genres: Education

122 pages, Hardcover

First published March 16, 2012

Reviews

[M.G. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Practical guide to implementing CMP to the music classroom. The musical examples presented in the book (Shenandoah & The Stars and Stripes Forever) placed in the context of CMP are excellent tools to help the reader understand how to implement CMP. Especially practical is the use of daily breakdowns of what is possible and logical sequentially when using CMP to teach a piece of music and its context/background/performance.

[Sarah Dunmire · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was disappointed with this. Cumbersome writing and much too expensive for the content. As a fan of CMP I don’t need convincing or explanation of why I should use it. Just looking for more details and tips/strategies to implement! I found the O’Toole ‘Shaping Sound Musicians’ to be much better.