John Langstaff

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1) Making Music: From Tambourines to Rainsticks to Dandelion Trumpets, Walnut Castanets to Shepherd's Pipes to an Abundance of Homemade Drums, Here Is a Joyful, Quirky Assortment of Good Sounds...

Author

Langstaff, John

Publisher

Storey Publishing, LLC

Pub. Date

2015

Language

English

Description

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Tune up a milk carton guitar and get ready for a kitchen concerto in the key of utensils major! Ann Sayre Wiseman and John Langstaff offer dozens of ideas that encourage children to unlock their musical creativity using everyday objects. Kids will be inspired as they turn a shower hose into a trumpet or pair zippers and Velcro to make their own percussion ensemble. With ideas for creating and playing more than 70 basic rhythm, string, wind, and

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2) Frog went a-courtin'

Author

Langstaff, John

Series

Voyager/HBJ book
Caldecott Medal Winner

Publisher

Harcourt, Brace

Pub. Date

[1955]

Language

English

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Caldecott Medal Winners

Description

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Illustrates the well-known American folk song about the courtship and marriage of the frog and the mouse.

3) Over in the meadow

Author

Langstaff, John

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

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An introduction to numbers by telling about some of the activities of ten animal mothers and their babies from the mother turtle with her one baby to the mother rabbit with her ten bunnies. Includes music for a song to sing with the rhymes.

4) On Christmas Day in the morning: a traditional carol

Publisher

Candlewick Press

Pub. Date

1999.

Language

English

Description

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Illustrated verses for this traditional English folk song present different animals tending to their crops and harvesting them for a Christmas feast.

5) Make music!: a kid's guide to creating rhythm, playing with sound, and conducting and composing music

Author

Haynes, Norma Jean

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

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Includes instructions for making a variety of simple musical instruments from ordinary household items.

6) Oh, a-hunting we will go

Author

Langstaff, John

Publisher

Atheneum

Pub. Date

1974.

Language

English

Description

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Old and new verses for a popular folk song about hunting and capturing an animal--and then letting him go.

7) John Langstaff sings At the foot of yonders mountain: Appalachian ballads and folksongs with composer John Powell at the piano

Author

Powell, John

Publisher

Revels Records

Pub. Date

[2002]

Language

English

8) Hi! ho! The rattlin' bog: and other folk songs for group singing

Author

Langstaff, John

Publisher

Harcourt, Brace & World

Pub. Date

[1969]

Language

English

9) Sweetly sings the donkey: animal rounds for children to sing or play on recorders

Author

Langstaff, John

Series

Margaret K. McElderry book

Publisher

Atheneum

Pub. Date

1976.

Language

English

Description

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A collection of animal rounds for children to sing and play.

10) Over in the meadow

Author

Langstaff, John

Series

Weston Woods read-along CD

Publisher

Weston Woods Studios

Pub. Date

[2002]

Language

English

Description

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A rhyme about meadow animals and their activities.

11) Making music

Author

Wiseman, Ann Sayre

Publisher

Storey Kids

Pub. Date

[2003]

Language

English

Description

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Includes instructions for making a variety of simple musical instruments from ordinary household items.

12) Blow ye winds in the morning: A Revels celebration of the sea. Traditional sea songs, dances and chanteys

Publisher

Revels, Inc

Pub. Date

1992.

Language

English

13) There was an old lady who swallowed a fly: --and more sing-along favorites

Series

Scholastic storybook treasures

Publisher

Weston Woods Studios

Pub. Date

[2009]

Language

English

Description

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Eight classic sing-along stories are brought vividly to life.

14) A trilogy of Christmas plays for children

Author

Preston, Carol

Publisher

Harcourt, Brace & World

Pub. Date

[1967]

Language

English

Description

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The text of three plays for Christmas as developed over the years by the staff of the Potomac School in Virginia and performed by the children there. Using folk material, texts from the King James Bible, and medieval miracle plays, these are serious, reverent dramas, yet simple enough for school performances.