Tam tam tambalay!: And Other Songs from Around the World
No. of pages 64
Published: 2007
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Over 25 songs from all around the world, designed for 4-7 year olds and
supported by a wealth of musical developments and imaginative ideas for
performance.
Over 25 songs from all around the world, designed for 4-7 year olds and supported by a wealth of musical developments and imaginative ideas for performance.
The collection includes chants, echo songs, action songs and playground games, many collected in the field by Helen MacGregor and some popular favourites, such as I bought me a cat (USA), Bate bate chocolate (Mexico) and Funga alafia (West Africa).
The book includes phonetic transliterations where appropriate and English meanings. Where relevant, songs will be provided in their original scripts (eg Gujarati, Japanese etc) on a website in pdf format so that teachers can download them as handouts or for use on a whiteboard.
The CD includes sample performances of each song to help with learning and pronunciation for easy performance. Melody lines are provided at the back of the book.
This book is part of a book series called Songbooks .
This book is aimed at children in primary school.
There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 2007 by HarperCollins Publishers .
Kaye Umansky is the much-published and popular children's writer and author of several music titles for A&C Black. Helen MacGregor, co-author of Music Express, is Music Adviser for Kent.
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