You and Me...Makes We: A Growing Together Songbook
BY ELIZABETH SCHWARTZ, MA, LCAT, MT-BC
You and Me…Makes We: A Growing Together Songbook features 101 original compositions by Raising Harmony co-founder, Elizabeth Schwartz. Uniquely adapted and especially for young children to sing and play in family groups, therapy, or early childhood settings.
The book comes with a link to download the audio files and all songs are fully notated. The music is organized into ways that children experience music: Gathering Songs, Embedded Songs, Transition Songs, Bonding Songs, Instrument Songs, Movement Songs, Songs about Me, and Songs about My World. A developmental grid guides the reader in selecting songs that best fit the developmental level of each child.
All the songs are research based and carefully composed to be engaging, memorable, and interesting with functional language and thoughtful content.
“Schwartz’s book uniquely meets the needs of the music therapist or anyone facilitating music experiences for young children. Simultaneously simple and engagingly clever, these songs are easy to learn and easy to love, with catchy melodies and functional language that empower kids to communicate.
The goal directed nature of Schwartz’s approach is plainly comprehensible, as she backs up each of her original songs with a therapeutic rationale and suggestions for adaptations. Schwartz offers a well organized, valuable resource that is sure to result in joyful and learning-ful musical experiences for any child.”
Meet the author...
Elizabeth K. Schwartz, MA, LCAT, MT-BC has been practicing music therapy in New York for over 30 years. She is internationally recognized as an expert in early childhood music therapy and is the author of the books Music, Therapy, and Early Childhood: A Developmental Approach and Basic Verbal Skills for Music Therapists, as well as the songbooks, You and Me Makes We: A Developmental Songbook and Together With The Beat: Songs for Me…and You…and Us.
