Acculturation: The Beginning Of Music Education

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things to do when guiding children through these stages is to know when the right time is to move them to the next stage. This often requires much patience. The reason that you need so much patience is because all children move through the different stages of preparatory audiation at different times. The times when children move are as different as their handwriting.
In the Absorption stage, children are “absorbing” music. But, not all music is appropriate. Most of the music that should be played is live music. It should also be played in different keyalities, tonalities, harmonies, meters, and tempos. When playing such diverse groups of music it is also important to not play music with words. Why you ask? Because if you play music with words. The children seem to focus their attention more on the words than the music itself.
Out of the two rooms that we have, I would use the one room, which has the cribs in it for the children in the absorption stage. This would be ...

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to do is to rush a child through each stage. They must be emotionally ready. Even if it seems like they are mentally or physically ready, you must wait. One thing I would do is start into step two to find out if they are ready. If they are ready, they will start doing things in step two. Step one and two overlap one another. The way I would be able to tell if they changed is by looking at the different things they do during this stage. In the second stage children begin to make babble sounds and movements. These are not coordinated with each other or with aspects in the environment and should not even be interpreted as an attempt by children to imitate what they are listening ...

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