Making Music With Your Child - Kia Portafekas - - an inspirational, motivational teacher who speaks with music

Kia Portafekas - Musician, Composer, Educator

Making Music With Your Child is designed for music and elementary teachers, parents, and children, and highlights simple, effective activities to build musical skills and awareness, while providing ways to encourage freedom, self-expression, and individuality. Kia's teaching method helps cultivate in the whole child, unique forms of expression and communication. It develops intuition, imagination, reasoning, self-discipline, and responsibility; promotes the processes of thinking, creating, and evaluating; and reinforces self-esteem and the joy of learning.

The first half of the book, "Simple Melodies," provides numerous suggestions for paying attention to the music around us and within us, inspiring children by example. The second half of the book, "Now Take It!", contains 100 "riffs"—games and exercises designed to be the starting point for improvisation and creativity with music.

"This book will inspire both parent and child to discover—or rediscover—the joy of music." Judith Struthers, ReView Librarian, NAPRA ReView

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Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Simple Melodies

Getting Started
Breathing
The Basics
Unlocking Creativity
Help Me, Kia!

Now Take It!

How to Riff
Breathing Riffs
Riffing Off Rhythm
Adventures in the Imagi Nation
Visual Riffs
Singalong Riffs
On the Move
Musical Storytelling
Musical Make-believe
Scales and Chords
Handy Riffs
Making Notes
Music to Keep
20 Ideas for Extra Inspiration

Appendix: Music to Learn By
Bibliography

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Book Details:
Authors: Kia Portafekas and Karen E. Marlow
ISBN: 1-58106-013-0
Publisher: MMB Music Inc.
Year of Publication: 2001
Page Count: 126

Reviews and Features:
Music Educators Journal (MENC), November 2002
New Horizons for Learning Online Journal, Fall 2002
Grammy.com, April 2002
School Band and Orchestra magazine, March 2002
Symphony magazine, March 2002
NAPRA ReView, January 2002
American Music Teacher (MTNA) magazine, October 2001
Internet Bookwatch, September 2001
The Orff Echo magazine, September 2001
Wisconsin Bookwatch, September 2001
Moon Valley Tattler, August 2001
Raising Arizona Kids magazine, August 2001
The Arizona Republic newspaper, June 2001
newBOOKnews, May 2001

"I'll show you how it's enough. Go up on the roof at night in this city of the soul. Let everyone climb on their roofs and sing their note! Sing loud!"
— Rumi