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Call: "Shave and a Haircut", Response: "Two bits". Play ⓘ. In music, call and response is a compositional technique, often a succession of two distinct phrases that works like a conversation in music. One musician offers a phrase, and a second player answers with a direct commentary or response.
Music education in relationship to cognitive development has been acknowledged throughout history (Dewey; [6] Gardner; [7] Collins, Griess, Carither, & Castillo [8]). For example, in the areas of language and literacy development young children have the propensity to learn their everyday spoken language by acquiring the vocabulary words through ...
Call and response is a form of interaction between a speaker and an audience in which the speaker's statements ("calls") are punctuated by responses from the listeners. [1] This form is also used in music, where it falls under the general category of antiphony .
A Chicago educator named Dwayne Reed has made "Welcome to Kindergarten," a rap music video for incoming kindergarten students and their "angel" teachers.
Coro-pregón (or coro-guía, coro-inspiración) in Afro-Cuban music and other Afro-Latin Latin music (mainly from the Puerto Rico), most of all salsa, but also in some non-Cuban genres like merengue and bachata, refers to a call and response section between the lead singer and the coro (chorus).
Lining out or hymn lining, called precenting the line in Scotland, is a form of a cappella hymn-singing or hymnody in which a leader, often called the clerk or precentor, gives each line of a hymn tune as it is to be sung, usually in a chanted form giving or suggesting the tune.
The response has surpassed her expectations. “I have had some parents tell me that their kids have come home singing it and that it’s been such a fun way of learning,” McPeek notes.
Kindergarten teacher Jeff Berry gave a touching speech at the Lawrence High School graduation on June 18, recognizing that many of the grads had been part of his kindergarten class when he began ...