ABSTRACT
With the first dimension of World Music Pedagogy under way, secondary school music students are paying keen attention to specific musical features, even as they are opening their minds to the cultural origin and ownership of individual works. Developing Sound Awareness and Attentive Listening skills are integral steps in growing the capacity of secondary school students to understand what makes music cultures “tick.” Within the third dimension, Enactive Listening, students experience full-on performance of selected parts, eventually moving away from the recording. The emphasis is on the oral-aural channels of knowing music more fully with every opportunity to listen, so that students progress through identifying features of music to entering into partial participation by singing and playing to a comprehensive embrace of the music in full-out performance. Students learn to understand and value the music on a deeper level when they are involved in partial and preliminary ways and in the re-enactment of the music by performing it close to its recorded model.
