Tunes and Grooves for Music Education
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (789 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0131941461 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 504 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Jenny M. said Great resourcejust one thing missing. I am a music specialist in a lower elementary setting. This book is an excellent resource for multicultural music for children. Many difficult to find countries are represented. It contains several valuable indices: for songs in a given meter; using just one chord, two chords, etc.; a given key. I would have welcomed an index by country as well. If you are looking for a song from Indonesia, you will need to look through th
3 Compact disk set available. Tunes and Grooves for Music Education is an expansive anthology containing more than 200 traditional songs, melodies, and rhythmic phrases from various cultures including Africa, Latin America, Europe, the Caribbean, and North America. This comprehensive volume is organized alphabetically by title. Those of us who work with folk music will surely appreciate the detailed background given for each of the more than 200 selections. More than just a collection of repertoire, &ldqu
Written to provide teachers a rich selection of "tunes"-- including songs, melodies and melodic themes, and "grooves" or rhythms, for use in both elementary and secondary classrooms. This text offers music from a variety of sources including folk/traditional music, world music, Latin music, and art/classical themes. Each of the more than 200 songs, melodies and rhythms is prefaced with descriptions of its cultural origins, function and meaning along with suggestions for applications in the classroom.