Tunes and Grooves for Music Education

Written to?provide teachers a?rich selection of "tunes"-- including songs, melodies and melodic themes, and "grooves" or rhythms, for use in both elementary and secondary classrooms.??This text offers music from a variety of sources including folk/traditional music, world music, Latin music, and art/classical themes. Each of the more than 200 songs, melodies and rhythms is prefaced with descriptions of its cultural origins, function and meaning along with suggestions for applications in the classroom.