Tunes and Grooves for Music Education

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. Praise from one reviewer, "As a specialist in early childhood music and group piano instruction, I find "Tunes and Grooves" an invaluable resource. This compilation of music from around the world including Africa, Asia and the Americas may be used by classroom teachers, university students and music therapists." From another-"Tunes and Grooves for Music Education is arguably the most diverse single-text resource for teaching world musics."Campbell, Patricia Shehan is the author of 'Tunes and Grooves for Music Education ', published 2007 under ISBN 9780131941465 and ISBN 0131941461.