Grouping Sound

The Sound Books series is a picture book collection designed to visually represent musical concepts for young learners. Its original artwork is created and arranged to clearly depict sound ideas with few or no words required. The unique approach encourages students to bring together visual and aural imagery and creativity in an exploration of vocal and instrumental skill building and conceptual musical understanding. Designed for interactive use between parents and children, teachers and students, each book focuses on a particular skill and/or concept area and provides strategies for effective use. Grouping Sound is the fifth publication in the series and focuses on musical meter - the ways in which we organize strong and weak beats within musical compositions. Through straightforward and compelling visual images that depict bigger and smaller sounds in organized collections, both common and less common musical meters are introduced. Learners are encouraged to use their voices, instruments, bodies, and found sounds to create and combine the beat patterns to develop a wide range of metrical possibilities and expertise.