A Joyful Noise

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Containing over 170 songs reflecting the diversity of American music, plus an introduction to music notation for young people and for the young at heart.

From the Introduction:

The arts in the United States flourish as nowhere else on Earth because of the wealth of diverse influences on those arts. This book is a survey of American popular song with particular emphasis on folksongs that have traditionally been sung by children in the United States in schools and at home. When you look over this collection, you will find that it includes songs from a wide variety of ethnic traditions. Within these covers you will discover the beautiful traditional Japanese tune “Sakura,” the Peruvian anthem “El Condor Pasa,” Irish folk songs like “Danny Boy” and “The Foggy Dew,” Scottish ballads like “Auld Lang Syne” and “Loch Lomand,” Jewish ceremonial tunes like “Havah Nagilah” and “My Dreydl,” African-American spirituals such as “Go Down, Moses” and “Follow the Drinking Gourd,” Hispanic folk songs such as “Cielito Lindo” and “La Cucaracha,” and much, much more. Surely there is not another country in the world that can boast such amazing richness in its national songbook. And this richness is due to our cultural diversity.

• List of songs
• Sample songs
• Sample music theory pages

ISBN: 978-1-933486-07-9