Cindi,
The book with the art work sound so interesting....when you get back to school would you mind sending me the title? I am no visual artist but I do love art and the idea of blending it with music sounds like a dessert to me!
Thank you!
Leslie
Cindi Waters <musicteachky@y...> wrote: Hi, Leslie. I wish I had a folk book appropriate for 9-12 year olds. I do have Hal Leonard's book of songs for children with famous art work next to the songs and invariably these kids ask to do a song from there even if they don't know it; they just love the art! It's interesting... I can't remember the name right now and it's at the school. Because the songs are classic folk songs, I'm happy with that. But aside from that, I don't have a book of folk songs, although I see from the Hal Leonard website that they have a rather expensive ($35) Kodaly folksong book, but it seems to be designed for teachers to use. It probably has most songs I want. The Hal Leonard website has a very thorough catalog online, I just checked it and has some songbooks, but my problem is: I'd love to have a good accompanying CD with that with GOOD singers that's not too expensive. A hard package to design, I suppose, cause I haven't found it out there yet. They have a book called THE FOLKSONGS BOOK 133 Songs from Around the World, and the songlist seems very good, but it has easy guitar chords, seens not a piano score for accompaniment. It's easy enough I suppose to supply the piano chords, but I'll keep looking for the book with a good piano score, although that one might have to do. The cd's that go along with the songs for kids for the Hal Leonard line are really for solos but they're very good. Meantime, Hal Leonard should seriously consider making a decent songbook for kids with the same type quality accompaniments they do for the other items they have. Thanks for your reply, I hope mine wasn't TOO long, and I look forward to hearing from you again. Cindi
---------------------------------
---------------------------------
|