MUSIC EDUCATION FOR PRESCHOOL, ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS

The present volume entitled Music Education for Preschool, Elementary and High School Students, is the result of the effort, dedication and academic-pedagogical interest of the students of the Music Education Approaches class, a subject that is part of the 2017 Study Plan of the Bachelor's Degree in Music at the Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes. In that course, the students of the 2017-2022 generation had an approach to several educational-musical proposals of an active nature, which establish the foundations for the integral musical development of the child. Thus, they had the opportunity to experience a little of the musical education approach of Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950), who proposed the development of musicality through bodily rhythm, solfège and improvisation; and they were able to learn about the educational-musical contributions of Carl Orff (1895-1982), who proposed the educational-instrumental practice through ostinati, corporal percussion, a diversity of percussion instruments, as well as instruments created ex profeso, to be used by children, such as xylophones, metallophones and glockenspiels (chimes).