basic music information

These two sheets have some basic information on the fundamentals of reading music including major scales, note names on treble (G) and bass (F) clefs and note equivilancies.

piano and staff note names

note equivilancies, time signatures, chords

Wagons West songbook

Wagons West - Exploring History Through the Arts

This is an annotated songbook with activities related to westward expansion.  I wrote it to correspond with a weeklong residency program I used to do which culminated in a wagon train reenactment through Boyce Park in Charlotte.  You can contact me if you want more information about the reenactment.  You can download the entire songbook at the bottom of this post.  The contents of the book are listed below.  Check back for music links to most of the songs. 

   Table of Contents
1)      Chronology of Important Events
2-3)  Acres of Clams
4)      Making a Journal
5)      Traveling Food
6)      Pioneer Recipes
7)      Home on the Range
8)      A La Ru
9)      Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
10)    Preparing for the Wagon Journey West
11)    Patchwork Quilts
12)    Crazy Quilts/Making Your Own Quilt Square
13)    Sweet Betsy from Pike
14)    Instruments of the Pioneers
15-17) Arkansas Traveler
18)    Banjo Making Instructions
19)    How to Play Your Banjo
20-21) Map of Expansion Routes
22)    Old Fashioned Toys and Games
23)    Goober Peas
24-25)    String Games
26)    Cindy
27)    Camptown Races
28)    Oh, Susanna
29)    Git Along Little Doggies
30)    Dan Taylor
31)    Old Dan Tucker
32)    Bought Me a Cat
33)    Skip to My Lou
34)    Old Joe Clark
35)    Michael, Row Your Boat Ashore
36-37) Little Old Sod Shanty on My Claim
38)    All the Pretty Little Horses
39)    Starving to Death on My Government Claim
40)    How to Make a Paper Dancing Lumberjack

Download:
Cover
Table of Contents
pages 1-19
pages 20-40

Music of the Universe Songbook

Table of Contents
1- Music of the Universe - listen
2 - Make New Friends - listen
3 - Places in the World
4 - Don't Laugh at Me - listen
5 - Step By Step - listen
6 - All Mixed Up page 1 - listen
7 - All Mixed Up page 2
8 - This Land Is Your Land - listen
9 - Moon Shadow - listen
10 - Tennessee Stud
11 - Wish I Was  Mole in the Ground - listen
12 - If I Had a Hammer - listen
13 - I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing - listen
14 - I Love the Flowers - listen, Shalom Chaverim - listen
15 - The World is a Rainbow - listen
16 - The Cat Came Back - listen
17 - De Colores - listen
18 - Desert Pete
19 - Don Gato - listen
20 - Free To Be You and Me
21 - German Folk Dance
22 - En La Feria De San Juan - listen
23 - Freight Train - listen,  Peace Will Come - listen
24 - Blowin' in the Wind - listen
25 - Turn, Turn, Turn - listen
26 - I Was Born About 10,000 Years Ago, page 1- listen
27 - I Was Born About 10,000Year Ago, page 2
28 - Peace Like a River - listen
29 - You Sing a Song - listen
30 - Bremen Town Canon, page 1 - listen
31 - Bremen Town Canon, page 2
32 - With Two Wings - listen
33 - Brother, Come and Dance With Me
34 - Kumbraza, Wimoweh (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)
35 - Little Brown Dog
36 - I Think You're Wonderful - listen
37 - Joy to the World (Jeremiah Was a Bulldog) - listen
38 - There's a Hole in the Bucket - listen
39 - Music Information Sheet, page 1
40 - Music Information Sheet, page 2

Instrument Making

If you are looking for some fun instrument making projects, here is a link to my website, http://www.satisfied-mind.com/ .