Intery Mintery

"Intery Mintery" is a collection of nursery rhymes for body, voice, and Orff ensemble. Music educator Doug Goodkin offers both philosophical and practical ways to teach music through language and teach language through music.

This unique book includes:

• 48 tried-and-true activities for preschool age through upper elementary
• Lesson plans usable by both music and classroom teachers
• A sequential development from phonemes to poems, from speech to pentatonic orchestrations
• Arrangements for Orff instrument ensembles and details of Orff orchestration
• Models of how to imaginatively animate rhymes

The contents include these topics:

I. For music and classroom teachers of K-5: Speech, Movement and Body Percussion with Activities for All Ages

II. Orff Ensemble Arrangements - A Sequential Study: Beginning Arrangements, Kindergarten to 2nd Grade

III. Introducing Pentatonic Modes

IV. Intermediate Arrangements - 2nd to 4th Grade: Transposition, new meters and recorder

V. Advanced Arrangements - 3rd to 5th Grade: Transposed modes, major-minor, alto recorder