Musical Adventure Must-Haves

You and Me Makes We: A Growing Together Songbook

COST: $35

101 original compositions by Raising Melodies co-founder, Elizabeth Schwartz. The songbook is packed with research based music compositions, strategies and suggestions for using these songs in your practice and guidance on how to make the most meaningful music for early childhood development. You will love them as much as your children and families.

Music, Therapy, and Early Childhood: A Developmental Approach

COST: $32

Music, Therapy, and Early Childhood: A Developmental Approach is a comprehensive guide to music therapy with young children, providing a detailed examination of overall development in music from birth to age five.

Included are easy to read scales of developmental milestones, lists of early musical behaviors and current research on musical development in young children.

The book then lays out a musical developmental framework organized into five levels explaining musical elements key to each level, musical characteristics and an expansive catalog of musical goals and objectives. Strategies and interventions, practical tips and solutions for helping the child develop through music offer the therapist, family, or educator an easy to understand format for success.

Music, Therapy, and Early Childhood: A Developmental Approach provides a wealth of information for the music therapy student, young music therapy professional, early childhood music educator, early childhood teacher, parents, and families. (ISBN 13: 978-1-891278-53-2), 168 pages.

BUNDLE: Music, Therapy, and Early Childhood: A Developmental Approach & You and Me Makes We: A Growing Together Songbook

COST: $55

Basic Verbal Skills for Music Therapists

COST: $32

Basic verbal skills are necessary for effective and competent practice at every level of music therapy. This innovative new text provides a clear and practical foundation for understanding how words and verbalization can be used in a variety of ways in music therapy to meet the individual needs of each client across a range of settings.