This market-leading text on early childhood music covers all aspects of music, including rhymes, songs, movement, playing music and listening to music from preschool through third grade. With its sequential, developmental approach, the book provides diverse musical activities, materials, and experiences along with guidelines for introductions and techniques for teaching music. Appropriate as a main text for upper-level college courses for music and education majors, it balances the needs of music educators and early childhood classroom teachers.