A Guide to Playing the Pentatonic Children’s Lyre for Parents and Early Childhood Teachers

GOOD FOR BEGINNERS

A Guide to Playing the Pentatonic Children’s Lyre for Parents and Early Childhood Teachers is a guide for playing the 7-string children’s pentatonic lyre. It is intended for parents and teachers who wish to sing and play music for or with preschool and kindergarten children.

The authors give several examples of songs, ideas for improvisations and discuss situations where the pentatonic children’s pentatonic lyre is of particular help for parents and educators of young children (naptime, quiet time, bedtime, singing or accompanying stories with music). It also includes practical tips for tuning and putting on new lyre strings, as well as reference materials and contacts.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• First Encounter
• Order of Strings and Music Notation 
• Basic Exercises and First Melodies
• Sleep, Baby, Sleep
• Singing and Music Making as Part of Regular Family Activities
• Coming into Movement – Improvisation
• Music for Fairy Tales
• Songs (Many!)
• The 7-String Children’s Pentatonic Lyre – It’s History and Mission
• Do Preschool Children Possess a Musical Mood of Their Own?
• Tuning and Replacing Strings
• Contacts
• Literature and Notes
• Chart of Notation, Strings and Fingering/Editor’s Notes

DETAILS

• A Guide to Playing the Pentatonic Children’s Lyre for Parents and Early Childhood Teachers
• Written by Bielharz and Laier. 
• Published by New Lexicon.
• Distributed by Mercurius
• For the 7-string Children’s Pentatonic Lyre

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