Music in the Primary School

This new edition of Music in the Primary School, a standard handbook for many years, was completed by the author in 2007. It contains new research, with the same practical application (for musicians and non-specialists alike), and takes into account requirements of the National Curriculum Dr Janet Mills began her career teaching music (and mathematics) in a comprehensive school in West Yorkshire. Subsequently, she was a teacher educator at Westminster College in Oxford and the University of Exeter. Her work as an HM Inspector of Schools included observation of more than 1000 instrumental lessons and the development and implementation - with instrumental teachers - of the first national system for inspecting Local Authority Instrumental Music Services. Along the way, she learnt violin and singing, and taught herself to play several other instruments. Janet Mills was a Research Fellow at the Royal College of Music in London and in 2004 won a National Teaching Fellowship. She wrote Music in the School (2005), Music in the Primary School (1991), and many articles in books, magazines, and research journals.

1	Primary teachers and music
2	Part I	Starting points for musical activity
3	Music games
4	Composing
5	Performing
6	Listening
7	Part II	Developing a framework
8	Musical development during the primary years
9	Planning curriculum music
10	Music within the curriculum
11	Music within the primary school
12	Further reading
13	References
14	Index