John the Rabbit

John the Rabbit is a fun-filled collection of folk music, games, and activities to develop rhythmic, melodic, vocal, motor, social, and improvisational skills. Most of the songs are traditional folk tunes and melodies.

Appropriate for grades K-6, the book includes information on the notation of the songs and suggested grade levels for each song or activity. Each song gives the origin, lyrics and melody line (in stick notation), formation and actions (when appropriate), abstract, reading pieces, and pedagogic use. This volume has more pedagogy included than the other three volumes in the series - My Little Rooster (816937), Bought Me a Cat (816938), and The Little Black Bull (816940).

Features:

• Song transcriptions
• Directions for all games and play parties
• Both simple and more advanced directions
• Song history and comparative source informationSuggestions for use in music curriculaMusic reading examples based on the folk songs
• Complete indices of subject matter, instrumentation, song type-grade level, meter and time signatures, tone set, melodic elements and patterns, and rhythmic elements and patterns