48 Favourite Songs Instrument : voice and piano Type : song book Nombre de Pages : 110 Six outstanding collections of favourite songs. All arrangements include the melody line in the accompaniment so that the songs work equally well as piano solos. Ideal for playing at home, in the clasroom, or even as concert items! Songs of the Americas is a collection from north, central and south America and the West Indies including Li'l Liza Jane, Land of the Silver Birch, Banana Boat Song, Deep River and Yankee Doodle. The edition is part of the ABRSM syllabus (grades 1 and 3). Content : A Life on the Ocean Wave - Deep River - Dona Dona - Jamaica Farewell - La Cucaracha - Land of the Silver Birch - Mango Walk - My Old Kentucky Home - Old Folks at Home - One More River - The Erie Canal - The Gypsey Davey - The Wreck of Sloop John B - Water Come a Me Eye - Angelico - Banana Boat Song - Carmen Carmela - Clementine - Dixie - Donkey Riding - Drill ye tarriers - Farewell My Own True Love, - Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair - Jennie Jenkins - John Brown's Body - Li'l Liza Jane - Linstead Market - Marching through Georgia - My Grandfather's Clock - No Other Moon - Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen - Patrick on the Railroad - Pay Me My Money Down - Riddles - Sambalele - Santy Anno - Shenandoah - Simple Gifts - Steal Away - Swing Low sweet Chariot - The Greenland Whale Fishery - The Old Man Who Lived in the Wood - The Shanty-Boys in the Pine - The Streets of Laredo - The Yellow Rose of Texas - Tortilla Vendor - When Johnny Comes Marching Home - Yankee Doodle

This is a super collection of popular children's stories complete with ideas for making music and it opens the door into clasroom music. There are songs to sing games to play raps to clap sounds to explore and music to compose. Many traditional stories lend themselves to musicality and Kay Umansky has taken thirteen well-loved and familiar stories and added parts for percussion actions and simple ideas for composition which develop the implied musical concepts. The songs which some of the stories contain are all set to well-known children's tunes and the melody lines are given at the back of the book. The book is illustrated throughout with light-hearted and lively cartoons ofthe creatures characters and actions from the stories.Non-specialists even those who have never read a note of music in their lives and are not confident in handling musical ideas should find this book ideal as a simple and quick way into the music curriculum.

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