Offers information, ideas and principles for music with 3 to 5 year olds. This book shows practitioners how to: connect with the educational concepts and principles of using music in early years settings; recognise and understand children's musical starting points; foster creativity through music; and, develop children's musical understanding.

Familiarity underpins our engagement with music. In Music and Familiarity, King and Prior bring together 13 essays that highlight theoretical and empirical considerations about familiarity from three perspectives: listening, musicology, and performance. This book explores the ways in which familiarity impacts our behaviour and responses to music.