Musical 3yo

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Is there a good series out there? I'm not familiar with videos featuring
the acctual instruments.

There's always Peter and the Wolf, which is certainly available in lots of
audio versions and I should think in video, though I haven't actually seen one.

--Helen

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H Schinske wrote:
wrote:

Is there a good series out there? I'm not familiar with videos featuring
the acctual instruments.

There's always Peter and the Wolf, which is certainly available in lots of
audio versions and I should think in video, though I haven't actually seen one.

For some reason, he's reacted negatively to every audio version I've
ever tried. I have no clue why. ;-) I haven't seen a decent-looking
video version (though I've seen some cheesy looking ones).

Thanks,

--Robyn

I posted earlier, but I think it may not have gone through:

Almost any music company will have good songs using 8 note diatonic or
pentatonic scales. I like West Music www.westmusic.com for music
materials-they specialize in early childhood, elementary, and music therapy.
Orff teachers use instruments like glockenspiels and xylophones not only to
play melodies, but to accompany-the most common is to play the root and 5th
of the key to accompany songs, so you might want to try that. For this, you
remove the bars nearby, so it sounds good regardless of how accurate your
child is.

Lynn Kleiner's books and videos for children are wonderful-Lynn is an
amazing Birth-age 6 music teacher. I had a chance to attend one of her
workshops once. She uses very basic instruments and materials (shakers,
small drums, beanbags, scarves) with young children. It's similar to
kindermusik in a lot of ways, but doesn't require moving your schedule
around to make the class.

Boomwhackers are wonderful for young kids-these are tuned plastic tubes, in
bright colors. Very light and fun. Again, use them to accompany songs or
even as a family play melodies. ANd they're relatively cheap-about $20 a
set.

In general, the instruments I use for preschool music classes when I teach
them a
small drums-I like the remo kids drums.
Egg shakers
tambourines
maracas
rhythm sticks
boomwhackers.

I use pitched instruments only occasionally, because the really little ones
often don't have the fine motor skills to keep from hitting the wrong bar or
popping the bars off entirely (the sonor glocks are nice because they have
enlarged tips to prevent the popping off problem).

For movement, I use sticks, beanbags, yarn balls, scarves, and small stuffed
animals.

"H Schinske" wrote in message
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wrote:

Is there a good series out there? I'm not familiar with videos featuring
the acctual instruments.

There's always Peter and the Wolf, which is certainly available in lots of
audio versions and I should think in video, though I haven't actually seen
one.

--Helen

The best Peter and the wolf I've found as a music teacher is the one by
Warner Brothers. It's a combination of animated and live action, and
includes a separate section describing the instruments and the characters.
Usually I show that last section first, then the full video.

"Robyn Kozierok" wrote in message
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Beth Kevles wrote:
Is there a good series out there? I'm not familiar with videos featuring
the acctual instruments.

If your library carries videos of TV shows, there are two series, both from
PBS, that I can recommend. The first is the series Winton Marsalis did on
Jazz for kids, which is really spectacular. It was all shot at Tanglewood
during the summer program for kids, and it was very interesting and
entertaining, although it's for much older kids. The second is also from
Tanglewood, and it's on classical music and was done about 10 years back.
Can't recall who the principal was, but it had Ozawa in it. My son, who is
quite musical, loved it when he was very young.

One caveat: very musical kids can go from a love of classical and jazz to an
obsession with Nirvana and Slipknot and want to only play electric guitar.
Sigh.

Marjorie

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Donna Metler wrote:

Lynn Kleiner's books and videos for children are wonderful-Lynn is an
amazing Birth-age 6 music teacher. I had a chance to attend one of her
workshops once. She uses very basic instruments and materials (shakers,
small drums, beanbags, scarves) with young children. It's similar to
kindermusik in a lot of ways, but doesn't require moving your schedule
around to make the class.

We really didn't like the "Babies Make Music" video we got a while
back. It was like watching a kindermusik-type class on video, but my
son never wanted to participate in a "remote" class like that. It
turned out to be no substitute at all for a real music class. We did
get a kit that came with some instruments too, but to be honest, he
didn't love those either. The best thing we got was the Baby Drum,
which I don't think was part of the "Babies Make Music" kit we bought,
but was a separate purchase.

Robyn (mommy to Ryan 9/93 and Matthew 6/96 and Evan 3/01)
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