Music Crossroads Malawi to release musical book for inclusion in schools
The Director of Music Crossroads Malawi, Mathews Gayighayi Mfune, has presented last week the process of lobbying with the government to review the primary and secondary school curriculum to put up music lessons at grass root level aiming at producing professional artists. In order to achieve this objective, Music Crossroads Malawi has written a book based on children activities, directed to young students and designed not only for music teaching but also other important educational purposes.
The book, called “Hear us”, is a collection of Malawian folk songs transcribed and sorted by levels of difficulty. The idea of “Hear us” is helping to restructure the local music patterns to suit the recommended standards of music production and increase knowledge of music among young learners in this country. This production wants to be part of a subject at school and aims to instill the following skills in the children during their classes: the ability to read and write music in a creative way, to play traditional instruments like drums and percussions and to compose songs. Like this, the book will create a unique challenge for improvisation and personal expression.
The reasons why “Hear us” will be very helpful for the educational background of children are its practicability, the simple language, the ease of understanding thanks to the use of directions and drawings, its idea of motivating kids in the learning of culture and some other important techniques that enhance cognitive abilities.
“Using this book, students will sing along with the teacher and learn to understand solfage using hand sign too”.
