Having set new words to well-known melodies, the author explores the elements of music - fast-slow, high-low, loud-quiet - building on the elementary skills established in Bobby Shaftoe, clap your hands". The text gives children activities in listening, composing and performing."
More songs to pick up and use straight away. Simple ways into developing musical understanding by experiencing and exploring sounds - loud, quiet, fast, slow, rough, smooth, high, low, many or few. All with links to other areas of the curriculum.
- New songs- Cross-curricular links- No music reading- Spiral bound paperback
This is Book 32 in the Songbooks Series. See all Songbooks books here.
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Peter Hunt is the inspiration behind OUP's highly successful Voiceworks series, author of four of its titles, and series editor. He is a highly skilled teacher with extensive experience as a choral animateur, clinician, workshop leader, conductor, and arranger. He regularly conducts children's choirs and organises large-scale singing events with young people
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