Up and Down Sounds - Ryan, Charlene

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Résumé :
The Sound Books series is a picture book collection designed to visually represent musical concepts for young learners. Its original artwork is created and arranged to clearly depict sound ideas with few or no words required. The unique approach encourages students to bring together visual and aural imagery and creativity in an exploration of vocal and instrumental skill building and conceptual musical understanding. Designed for interactive use between parents and children, teachers and students, each book focuses on a particular skill and/or concept area and provides strategies for effective use. Up and Down Sounds is the first publication in the series and focuses on vocal exploration of high and low sounds, and all sounds in between. Through a range of images, which begin as seemingly random patterns and develop into more sophisticated images that resemble traditional music notation, learners are encouraged to explore their vocal capacities as they sing what they see.

Biographie:
Charlene A. Ryan is a musician, painter, writer, and mom. She has spent most of her life behind an instrument and in front of an audience of one kind or another. Dr. Ryan, as she is known by many, is also a professor of music education whose career centres around young musicians and their teachers. She has worked with children of all ages, from infants to highschoolers, as well as university and college students. Currently an Associate Professor at Ryerson University, she has been a faculty member at the Berklee College of Music and McGill University. In addition to her university teaching, Dr. Ryan developed two highly successful community music programs for children while at McGill and Berklee. Her research on the performance experiences of children and adolescents has been published widely in academic journals. Dr. Ryan is the editor of the Canadian Music Educator and serves on the editorial boards for the International Journal of Music Education and Frontiers in Psychology - Performance Science.