STEP Helps Integrate Music Learning in Schools and in Private Studios
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Nowadays a number of STEP participants try to integrate their music learning in public schools and in private piano studios after school, by learning the same music from different perspectives. *STEP is the evaluation stage with a concert-like setting.
In Japan, music classes are incorporated in the school compulsory curriculum both in elementary schools (6 years) and junior high schools (3 years). There are dozens of choral songs and instrumental music in the textbooks, most of which are for recorder, keyboard harmonica, castanet, and tambourine. Those who study piano are likely to accompany with those performances at schools. Therefore STEP recommends to play them on stage as rehearsal, together with their classmates or family members.
Among the STEP required repertories, 148 pieces are on the school textbooks, that includes Beethoven's Minuet in G major (for 3rd grade), Grieg's Norwegian Dances No.2 (for 4th grade), Brahms's Hungarian Rhapsody No.5 (for 5th grade). The textbooks also provide detailed learning instructions so that pupils can comprehend better.
So why don't you use them in the private piano solo / duo learning? Ms.Mayumi Tannai, a STEP adviser, will pick up some pieces from school textbooks and explain how to learn them effectively on piano, at the STEP Talk Concert in November.
According to Prof.Yuji Ishikawa (lecturer at Tokyo Gakugei University), music classes at public schools are taught in two ways, expression of music (sing, instrumental performance, music-making) and appreciation of music. He addresses that different approaches in public schools and private piano studios might lead students to learn the music in multiple ways and to enhance their musical literacy further.
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