Melody Book, The: 300 Selections from the World of Music for Piano, Guitar, Autoharp, Recorder and Voice
This comprehensive music collection brings together 300 songs for piano, guitar, autoharp, recorder, and voice. Folk traditions, children's music, dances, ballads, standards, sacred songs, and holiday selections are supported by accompaniment ideas, cultural notes, activity suggestions, instrument charts, theory references, and extensive indexes.
About This Book
The Melody Book presents 300 selections from around the world for piano, guitar, autoharp, recorder, and voice.
Its repertoire includes folk and ethnic songs, children's chants, school songs, dances, play songs, ballads, pop standards, and secular and sacred music for holidays and other occasions.
Selections include suggested accompaniment patterns, fingering and chord charts, strumming patterns, percussion parts, movement and dance activities, and ideas for Orff accompaniments.
Background notes address cultural, historical, stylistic, and biographical topics, while selected ethnic songs include original-language lyrics with phonetic pronunciation and English translations.
Reference material covers instruments, children's and adult voices, and music theory. Extensive indexes organize songs by origin, key, instrument, melodic range, scale, rhythm, meter, harmony, activity, season, style, and composer.
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