Musical Childhoods: Explorations in the pre-school years

This book promotes the idea of childrens competence in the use of the language of music and argues that all children have a right to participate in musical discovery and celebrates childrens engagement with meaningful and disparate experiences in music. With contributions from leading practitioner/researchers in the field, this book seeks to reaffirm childrens communicative competence when exposed to high quality musical experience, provide new perspectives on childrens ability to engage with music in many diverse forms and explore and promote the role of the musician as artist/teacher.