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The Tuneables is an award-winning children's music education DVD and CD series designed to teach the key building blocks of music at a critical time in a child's development. Sponsored by the Music Intelligence Project, this fun, interactive program engages children in songs and activities that provide a foundation of music understanding and growth in intellectual development. Ages 3-8.
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To help prepare your child for active music instruction and learning, play recordings of music by Mozart and others as a background for other activities and rest time when the child is very young.
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The Young Child’s Personal Music “Playlist” (Repertoire): A Context for Learning
Very young children (ages 0-3) need a personal "playlist" of songs and classical musical compositions to serve as their cultural context for music learning. (See blog: Let's Start at the Very Beginning: Early Exposure to Music-the "Playlist".)
The following lists include important children's songs and classical compositions that are well known and appropriate for every child's "Playlist". Although many more selections are available, these examples were chosen because of their tonal and rhythmic content and their appeal to very young ears.
I. Thirty Children's Songs for the young child's "playlist".
1. Alphabet Song
2. Are You Sleeping
3. B-I-N-G-O
4. Baa, Baa Black Sheep
5. Eensy, Weensy Spider
6. Farmer in the Dell
7. Hickory Dickory Dock
8. Hokey Pokey
9. Hot Cross Buns
10. Hush Little Baby
11. I'm a Little Teapot
12. If You're Happy and You Know It Clap Your Hands
13. Jingle Bells
14. London Bridge
15. Looby Loo
16. Mary Had a Little Lamb
17. Mulberry Bush
18. Old MacDonald
19. Paw, Paw Patch
20. Ring Around the Rosies
21. Row, Row Your Boat
22. Six Little Ducks
23. Skip to My Lou
24. Teddy Bear
25. The Bear Went Over the Mountain
26. This Old Man
27. Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
28. Wheels on the Bus
29. Where Is Thumbkin
30. Yankee Doodle
(Religious and holiday songs could also be included)
II. Thirty Classical Compositions for the young child's "playlist".
1. Bach: Minuet in G (Anna Magdalena Notebook)
2. Bach: Prelude and Fugue in C Major (Well Tempered Clavier No. 1)
3. Beethoven: Bagatelle in A Minor ("Fur Elise")
4. Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D-Rondo (3rd mvt.)
5. Bizet: Carmen-March of the Toreadors
6. Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 5
7. Chopin: Grand Valse Brilliante
8. Debussy: Arabesque No 1.
9. Dvorak: Slavonic Dance No. 3
10. Handel: Water Music Suite No. 1-Bourree (8th mvt.)
11. Handel: Water Music Suite No. 2-Hornpipe (2nd mvt.)
12. Haydn: Symphony No. 101 ("Clock") (2nd Movement)
13. Haydn: Symphony No. 94 ("Surprise") (2nd movement)
14. Haydn: Trumpet Concert in E-Flat (3rd Mvt.)
15. Hummel: Trumpet Concerto in E-flat (3rd Mvt.)
16. Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night's Dream (Scherzo)
17. Mozart: Andante in C Major for Flute and Orchestra
18. Mozart: Eine Kleine Nacht Musik (1st Mvt.)
19. Mozart: Marriage of Figaro Overture
20. Mozart: Minuet and Trio for Piano, K. 1
21. Mozart: Rondo Alla Turka (piano or orchestra)
22. Mozart: Rondo No.2 in C Major for Violin and Orchestra
23. Mozart: Twelve Variations in C Major on Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
24. Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumble Bee
25. Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals-The Swan
26. Sousa: Stars and Stripes Forever
27. Strauss: Radetsky March
28. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
29. Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, "Spring"-Allegro (1st mvt.)
30. Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, "Winter"-Largo (2nd mvt.)
(Note: Music enjoyed by children, such as "Peter and the Wolf", that describes a scene or tells a story are not listed. Those compositions should not be avoided, but it is important to include these pieces in the child's "Playlist" where the focus is on tonality, rhythm, and musical design or structure, rather than a story that the music represents.)
“Let’s Start at the Very Beginning”: Early Exposure to Music—the “Playlist”
Very young children (ages 0-3) benefit most from music learning experiences when they have had a rich exposure to music in the home starting at birth. Such exposure gives young children a personal repertoire of songs and instrumental compositions that become part of the cultural fabric of their everyday lives. Let's call it their "playlist". This is their readiness for learning music in a music education program, such as The Tuneables.
Does Music Make Young Children Smarter?
Engaging young children in music experiences can have a strongly positive influence on their intellectual development. But you have to be smart about choosing what experiences produce the best result. The key consideration is to make sure the children are actively involved—focused listening, singing, moving rhythmically, playing simple instruments, and forming musical concepts—all with the aim of producing a musical result and knowing that it happened.
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