ABSTRACT
Active hands-on music experiences enable children to express their own musicality and demonstrate their conceptual understandings of music. In this chapter, the music-making activities of listening, playing instruments, singing, movement, creating music, and reading/notating music are described and guidelines offered for teachers to consider as they engage children in making music. These activities provide the modes for children to experience the three artistic processes of creating, performing, and responding as articulated in the 2014 National Core Music Standards.
