Listening to music elements : active listening materials to support a primary music scheme: Age 5+ (2nd ed)

The "Listening to Music" series actively engages children in listening to music so that they can perform it and compose it themselves.

Each pack comprises a visually exciting book, a CD of all the recordings, and a CD-ROM of interactive whiteboard activities and printouts.

The first title in the "Listening to Music series" brings together music from China, West Africa, India, South America and Europe - an eclectic mix of traditional, historical and contemporary music.

Through the activities, children recognise and use the building blocks of music: long and short sounds, high and low, loud and quiet, fast and slow.

They perform their own versions of some of the recordings and they compose others - always listening perceptively to their own and others music.

Teachers will find this title a useful accompaniment to "Music Express Years 1 and 2" and an enjoyable source of alternative activities for their primary music scheme of work.