Best Children's Songs Ever


Book Description

(Easy Piano Songbook). This amazing collection features over 100 songs kids love in one handy songbook! Arranged for piano and voice with guitar chord frames, it will provide hours of playing fun for parents and teachers! Songs include: Any Dream Will Do * Beauty and the Beast * The Candy Man * Do-Re-Mi * Frere Jacques (Are You Sleeping?) * Hakuna Matata * I'm Popeye the Sailor Man * If I Only Had a Brain * Let It Go * Michael Row the Boat Ashore * On Top of Spaghetti * Puff the Magic Dragon * The Rainbow Connection * Rubber Duckie * A Spoonful of Sugar * This Old Man * Winnie the Pooh * Yellow Submarine * and many more.




Songs for Our Sons


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What hopes do you have for the future? Who do you long to become? This warm, inspiring book encourages boys to shape a world so much gentler and brighter than before. Playful rhymes and tender illustrations invite them to notice nature, embrace their emotions, and use wise words as their weapons. Whether they’re dynamic dazzlers or marvelous mud sculptors, this book is an opportunity to imagine all the incredible adventures up ahead. A perfect gift for baby showers, graduations, and other celebrations, Songs for Our Sons is a book boys will treasure throughout their lives.




This Jazz Man


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In this toe-tapping jazz tribute, the traditional "This Old Man" gets a swinging makeover, and some of the era's best musicians take center stage. The tuneful text and vibrant illustrations bop, slide, and shimmy across the page as Satchmo plays one, Bojangles plays two . . . right on down the line to Charles Mingus, who plays nine, plucking strings that sound "divine." Easy on the ear and the eye, this playful introduction to nine jazz giants will teach children to count--and will give them every reason to get up and dance! Includes a brief biography of each musician.




A Treasury of Children's Songs


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An illustrated collection of forty traditional songs.




Children's Songs


Book Description

A great resource for 80 top songs for kids, complete with the chords and lyrics for each. Songs include: Alphabet Song + Animal Fair + Any Dream Will Do + The Bear Went over the Mountain + The Brady Bunch + The Candy Man + Do-Re-Mi + Edelweiss + Eensy Weensy Spider + Home on the Range + It's a Small World + Old MacDonald + On Top of Spaghetti + Puff the Magic Dragon + The Rainbow Connection + Sing + Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious + Take Me Out to the Ball Game + Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star + Won't You Be My Neighbor? + Yellow Submarine + more!




Spanish Children's Songs


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This charming book contains twelve favorite Spanish folk melodies, arranged by a prominent piano teacher for young students at the elementary level. The lyrics are provided in both Spanish and English. It's great for lessons and recitals! Titles: * A la Rueda Rueda (A Game Song) * Al Ánimo (A Game Song) * Antón Pirulero (Anton, the Candy Man) * Arroz con Leche (A Game Song) * Duérmete mi Niño (Sleep, My Child) * El Patio de mi Casa (The Patio of My House) * Mambrú Se Fué a la Guerra (Mambru Has Gone to War) * Naranja Dulce (Sweet Orange) * Papeles Son Papeles (Papers Are Papers) * La Pájara Pinta (The Spotted Bird) * "La Señorita" and "Matandile" (Two Game Songs) * Tengo una Muñeca Vestida de Azul (I Have a Doll Dressed in Blue).




Venda Children's Songs


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John Blacking is widely recognized for his theoretical works How Musical Is Man? and The Anthropology of the Body. This series of essays and articles on the music of the Venda people of the northern Transvaal in South Africa constitutes his major scholarly legacy. Venda Children's Songs presents a detailed analysis of both the music and the cultural significance of children's songs among the Venda. Among its many original contributions is the identifying of the role of melody in generating rhythm, something that distinguishes this form of music from that of Venda adults as well as from other genres of African music in general.




Crafts from Your Favorite Children's Songs


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Provides directions for creating puppets, games, jewelry, toys, and other projects related to such favorite children's songs as "Old MacDonald Had a Farm, " "The Eensy, Weensy Spider, " and "Rock-a-bye-Baby."




World's Greatest Children's Songs


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World's Greatest Children's Songs includes both traditional and modern folk songs, along with amusing parodies, teaching songs, and more. It also features a large number of more recent hits that children love, including songs that originated on popular television shows (such as Sesame Street, The Muppets, The Wiggles) and tunes from unforgettable movies. The arrangements are easy enough to be played by children at the early intermediate level, yet musical enough for adults to enjoy performing them as well. Lyrics and chord symbols are provided. Titles: A-Tisket, A-Tasket * The Alphabet Song * The Ants Came Marching * Baby Beluga * The Ballad of Gilligan's Isle * Bananaphone * The Bear Went over the Mountain * Bill Grogan's Goat * B-i-n-g-o * Camptown Races * The Chicken Dance (Dance Little Bird) * Chim Chim Che-ree * Did You Ever See a Lassie? * Do Your Ears Hang Low? * The Dreidel Song * The Eensy-Weensy Spider * Found a Peanut * Frère Jacques * Fruit Salad * Get Ready to Wiggle * Go In and Out the Window * Going to the Zoo * Happy Birthday to You * Heigh Ho (from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) * Henry the Octopus * Here We Go Looby Loo * He's Got the Whole World in His Hands * The Hokey-Pokey * Hot Potato * Hush Little Baby * If I Only Had a Brain (from The Wizard of Oz) * If You're Happy and You Know It * It's a Small World * It's Raining, It's Pouring * Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree * Kum Ba Yah * Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly) * The Lion Sleeps Tonight * Mail Myself to You * The Marvelous Toy * (Meet) The Flintstones * Merrily We Roll Along * The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down * Michael, Row the Boat Ashore * Mickey Mouse March * Monster Mash * The Muppet Show Theme * The Noble Duke of York * Oats, Peas, Beans and Barley Grow * Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone? * Old MacDonald * On Top of Spaghetti * Over the Rainbow *A Peanut Sat on a Railroad Track * Peter Cottontail * Polly Wolly Doodle * Pop! Goes the Weasel * Puff (The Magic Dragon) * The Purple People Eater * Put Your Finger in the Air * Rainbow Connection (from The Muppet Movie) * Riding in My Car (Car Car Song) * Ring Around the Rosy * Rock-a-Bye Baby * Rock-a-Bye Your Bear * Row, Row, Row Your Boat * Shake My Sillies Out * She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain * Skidamarink * Splish Splash * Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious * Swinging on a Star * Take Me Out to the Ball Game * There Were Ten in a Bed * This Land Is Your Land * This Old Man * Under the Sea (The Little Mermaid) * The Unicorn * We're Off to See the Wizard (from The Wizard of Oz) * The Wheels on the Bus * When the Saints Go Marching In * When You Wish Upon a Star * Whistle While You Work * Who Built the Ark * Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf? * Winnie the Pooh * Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah. 144 pages.




Songs in Their Heads : Music and Its Meaning in Children's Lives


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This book explores the musical interest and needs of children in their daily lives. Based upon their expressed thoughts and actual "musicking" behaviors, this text examines the songs they sing, the rythyms they make, and the roles that music plays for them. Blending standard education field experiences with ethnographic techniques, Dr. Campbell demonstrates how music is personally and socially meaningful to children and what values they place on particular musical styles, songs, and functions. He explores musical behaviors in various contextual settings, and presents in notated and narrative forms some of the "songs in their heads," balancing music learned with music "made," and intentional, purposeful music with natural musical behavior. Songs in Their Heads is a vivid and engaging book that bridges the disciplines of music education, musicology, ethnomusicology, and folklore. Designed as a text or supplemental text in a variety of music education method courses, as well as a reference for music specialists and classroom teachers, this book will also appeal to parents interested in understanding and enhancing music making in their children.