$21.00 USD

Multicultural Songs, Dances and Games for Children: Viola

  • Over 90 multicultural songs, movement games, chants or tales taken from traditional folk material across the globe (American, South American, Canadian, English, Native American, Western European, Eastern European, Polynesian, African, Māori, Asian, Israeli)
  • Activities associated with the tunes. This book includes finger plays, clapping chants, simple folk dances, movement games, and mimed movement to accompany the songs.
  • Preparation suggestions for the teaching of specific musical concepts: beat, rhythm, bowing patterns, melodic and finger patterns, posture and movement coordination, dynamics/tempo/articulation concepts, self-expression and musicality, formal structure, ear training, improvisation, reading and transposition.
  • Written material offering ways of using this unique resource in your teaching studio.
  • Tunes are set in violin-friendly keys in case it is used for reading, ear training,  or pitch-matching: A, D and G with a few in modes, minor, and C or F.
  • A listing of common three-note patterns called Magic Melodic Patterns and their parallel minors prepare for the keys found in the Suzuki repertoire books 1-4.
  • Four charts and indices provide easy access to what you are looking for in skill development, rhythm, melody, or culture.
  • Resources listed at the end of the book offer recommendations for access to more materials.
  • Appendix with same instrument or violin, cello collaboration using the songs and settings presented earlier in the book

What People Are Saying:

Spectacular! This book is amazing. Alison is very inspiring. There’s nothing else like this book around.

Laura Carr, creator of Stringosaurus

A masterpiece. I think it’s wonderful to teach children these folk tunes. No one does anymore. I am enjoying all the didactic uses you put them. All your ideas for beginning, intermediate and advanced students are marvelous. I can say right now that this is something that all teachers who are teaching … children need.

Eloise Hellyer, author of “1 Teaches 2 Learn”