Brief description of the Via Musica series

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Via Musica is founded on the main interactive approaches to music education of
Kodaly, Orff, and Dalcroze, Its songs, associated to games mimes rounds and dances, are
presented in a pedagogical on-going sequence, facilitating a simplifies way of acquiring
the basic concepts and skills of music’s language.
Each song is well illustrated and presented with a brief analysis of its content : melodic, rhythmic and
form. Its abundant repertoire enables acquire to music sight reading at all levels from
K to twelve. Its varied group singing activities greatly help an appropriate learning of the
French language and its culture.
The series counts 8 sequential books: A et B -170 songs and 2 CD ;
books C et D- 430 song and DVD; book E- 420 canons; books F et G- 495 2 and 3 part songs;
book H -140 Noëls and CD and 1 Music Education Aids book revised in 2008