Listen & tracks

23 works · 24:01

1 It’s Music! Noel Thomas 1:39
2 Tall and Small Noel Thomas :35
3 Bendy Toy Noel Thomas 1:05
4 Ticking Clocks Noel Thomas 1:31
5 Little Red Caboose Noel Thomas 1:08
6 Magnificent Men Noel Thomas 1:03
7 Twinkle Twinkle Noel Thomas 1:05
8 We Can Play Noel Thomas :56
9 Miss Miss Noel Thomas :35
10 Five Little Frogs Noel Thomas 1:25
11 Cradle Song Noel Thomas 1:33
12 The Clown Noel Thomas :59
13 Why are you Crying? Noel Thomas :44
14 I’m Cross Noel Thomas :54
15 Little Child Noel Thomas :57
16 The Bangalorey Man Noel Thomas :47
17 Click your Sticks Noel Thomas :44
18 Polly... Noel Thomas 1:05
19 Emus Walking Noel Thomas 1:16
20 Up High, Down Low Noel Thomas :57
21 Leo the Lion Noel Thomas 1:27
22 William’s Friends Noel Thomas :51
23 Sound Song Noel Thomas :45

Refer to the booklet and listen to the music at the same time. Draw your child’s attention to the link between each visual image and the song they hear. The characters in the pictures highlight a fundamental principle of music.

Suggestions under each picture help the untrained parent or instructor grasp the concept and find ways to involve the child.

Twenty-three songs have been imaginatively arranged for a wide range of real instruments — strings, woodwind, brass and percussion — recorded so that their distinctive tonal qualities are preserved.

There is room to move, dance, sing and listen carefully. Much can be done for a child’s musical understanding outside formal music education.

Artists

Judith Thomas

vocals

John Seal

composer

John Seal makes music children can move to and grow with: colourful percussion, flute, guitar and bass behind songs that stretch young imaginations, from dawn-to-bedtime kindergarten classics to active listening that teaches the bones of music.