Helen MacGregor

Listening To Music Elements

The Listening to Music series actively engages children in listening to music so that they can perform it and compose it themselves. Each pack comprises a visually exciting book, a CD of all the recordings, and aCD-ROM of interactive whiteboard activities and printouts.

The book brings together music from China, West Africa, India, South America and Europe — an eclectic mix of traditional, historical and contemporarymusic. Through the activities, children recognise and use the building blocks of music: long and short sounds, high and low, loud and quiet, fast and slow. They then perform their own versions of some of the recordings andtheycompose others — always listening perceptively to their own and others music.

Teachers will find this title a useful accompaniment to Music Express Years 1 and 2 and and an enjoyable source of alternativeactivities for their primary music scheme of work.