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.

The outdoor music festival market has developed and commercialised significantly since the mid-1990s, and is now a mainstream part of the British summertime leisure experience. The overall number of outdoor music festivals staged in the UK doubled between 2005 and 2011 to reach a peak of over 500 events. UK Music (2016) estimates that the sector

Audio disc contains 23 songs to accompany learning activities

This text is focused on the very specific needs and approaches appropriate for teachers of music to very young children. It focuses on the very specific needs and approaches appropriate for teaching music to very young children.

This book provides teachers with clear advice on how to plan, resource and deliver a comprehensive programme which will challenge their pupils and enable them to progress and meet national requirements.

This annotated anthology documents historical trends and basic findings regarding music in early childhood education, development, and care.