ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of important group music programs for children throughout the world. It looks at European and Asian music educators that continue to influence music education, and explores popular contemporary music programs for children that were developed in North America. There has been a lot of research, leading to useful suggestions about how Emile Jaques-Dalcroze can be incorporated into music instruction. Group-piano teachers can use one of Dalcroze's central ideas by having children experience and move to music in different meters before they see it and learn about theoretical underpinnings. Zoltan Kodaly educators use tuning forks and pitch pipes in the classroom rather than relying on a piano. There may be opportunities within the piano class to avail of Carl Orff instruments with which children would use larger motor skills and arm movements to explore concepts, before applying those ideas at the piano.
