“The world’s greatest music, including quintessentially American masterworks of blues, jazz, and musical theater, are here offered in convenient sets for use by teachers, students, and parents.”
Notes:
- The Kindergarten Music Curriculum also includes American Songs.
- We’ll listen to both the Pre-K and the Kindergarten pieces this year. Many of these are marches or dances that make children want to move!
Preschool and Kindergarten Music
- Overture from Carmen
- “Cradle Song” (Brahms’ Lullaby)
- “Cakewalk” from Children’s Corner Suite
- “Morning” and “In the Hall of the Mountain King” from Peer Gynt
- “March of the Toys” from Babes in Toyland
- “Sabre Dance” from Gayane
- “Ah, vous dirai-je maman!”
- “Can-Can” from Orpheus in the Underworld
- “Dance of the Hours
- Carnival of the Animals
- “Dreaming” from Scenes from Childhood
- “Donner und Blitz” polka
- “March,” “Dance of the Flutes,” and “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies” from The Nutcracker
Buy or home/car listening at the Core Knowledge Store: 2 CD Set PreK–K