Lets Get The Rhythm Of The Band

A child's introduction to music from African-American culture with history and song.

Here's an excellent book for strengthening rhythmic reading skills, creatively incorporating reading rhythms with the music of the masters. Students play their respective percussion instruments along with the basic piano piece OR with the enhanced recorded accompaniment to achieve the dual goal of learning rhythms and the music of great composers. Parts are included for bells, triangle, tambourine, sticks, wood block, claves, castanets, drums, and cymbals. The Teacher's Handbook features full scores of the music as well as reproducible student rhythm parts, rhythm keys and practice exercises. Recommended for grades 2--7.

A group of children enjoy a game to develop their rhythm.

A group of children enjoy a game to develop their rhythm.

A collection of music and songs from various parts of Africa.

On a simple trip to the park, the joy of music overtakes a mother and daughter. The little girl hears a rhythm coming from the world around her- from butterflies, to street performers, to ice cream sellers everything is musical! She sniffs, snaps, and shakes her way into the heart of the beat, finally busting out in an impromptu dance, which all the kids join in on! Award-winning illustrator Frank Morrison and Connie Schofield-Morrison, capture the beat of the street, to create a rollicking read that will get any kid in the mood to boogie.

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For one semester/quarter course in Music Education Methods, Classroom Instrument Methods, Musicianship and Multicultural Music Education/World Music Education. 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.