ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the presence of the connector orientation while musicians are engaged in creating, performing, and responding. It addresses ways of bringing the connector to the foreground during musical interactions involving the other orientations. The chapter provides clarification regarding the nature, status, and treatment of the connector orientation, and discusses how the literacy lens helps in this discussion and in musical instruction where the connector orientation is targeted and addressed. The literacy lens facilitates connector-oriented instructional planning exactly the same way it facilitates instructional planning in the other orientations. The way the orientations are combined and interwoven is, of course, prevalent in musical interactions, and instructors may predictably gravitate towards combining orientations in connector-oriented instruction. The literacy lens calls for valuing high quality texts. Verbal explanations, perhaps the most common of all texts, must be of high quality and should often be accompanied by other meaningful texts, such as print texts, pictures, audio recordings, videos, objects, and so forth.
