The Round Book: Rounds Kids Love to Sing

Margaret Read MacDonald

august house, 2006 - Education - 121 pages

Recognized as Bowker Best Books for Young Children & Winner of Storytelling World Honor

This handy paperback presents 80 songs designed to be sung as rounds. Each one appears on an uncluttered page or two, illustrated by a simple ink drawing. From sixteenth-century tunes to contemporary camp songs, the selection is rich and varied, and the appended bibliography, "More Rounds for the Avid Singer," suggests other books and recordings. Song leaders will find the clearly written suggestions for round singing particularly helpful. A fine resource for school music teachers, choir directors, camp leaders, and children who sing for the love of it.

School Library Journal wrote, "The selections are written in such a way that the staves are connected and numbered to denote each part...MacDonald's more sophisticated book seems geared to adults who would be leading the singing. Somewhat static black-and-white drawings open up each chapter. Overall, the introduction and instructions on singing rounds plus the appended history, advice for directors, additional suggestions of rounds, and a title/first-line index help to make this offering useful for most collections."

Contents

• Sing Sing Together: 3
• Come Sing Along with Me: 4
• Who Is Happy Is a King: 5
• Let Us Sing Together: 6
• Viva Viva la Musica: 8
• I Love the Flowers: 9
• Love the Flowers: 11
• Come Follow Me to the Greenwood Tree: 12
• To Ope Their Trunks: 13
• My Paddles Keen and Bright: 14
• Up and Down This World Goes Round: 15
• They March They March: 16
• Laughing Comes the Springtime: 17
• Grasshoppers Three: 18
• The Lively Song of the Frogs: 19
• Laughing May Is Here: 20
• White Coral Bells: 22
• Go to Joan Glover and Tell Her I Love: 23
• Go to Joan Glover: 25
• Where Are You Going My Pretty Maid?: 26
• Where Is John?: 27
• Johnny Johnny: 28
• There Was a Little Girl: 29
• Rose Rose: 30
• O How Lovely Is the Evening: 33
• Rise Up O Flame: 34
• Tallis Canon: 35
• Sweet Is the Hour of Twilight Gray: 36
• Evening Is Upon Us: 37
• Day Is Done Taps: 38
• The Cuckoo: 39
• Whippoorwill: 40
• Have You Seen the Ghost of John?: 41
• Early to Bed and Early to Rise: 42
• Now the Day Is Nearly Done: 43
• Good Night to You All: 44
• Wake: 45
• Wake Up Wake Up: 47
• Are You Sleeping? Frère Jacques: 48
• Morning Is Come: 50
• Merrily Merrily Greet the Morn: 51
• Sweetly Sings the Donkey: 52
• Heigh Ho Anybody Home?: 53
• Heigh Ho Anybody Home?: 55
• Make New Friends: 56
• Love Your Neighbor: 57
• Shalom Chaverim: 58
• Laugh Ha Ha: 60
• Why Shouldnt My Goose Sing as Well as Thy Goose?: 61
• Why Shouldnt My Goose ?: 63
• My Dame Has a Lame Tame Crane: 64
• Pussy Cat Pussy Cat: 65
• Turtle Slow: 66
• Donkeys Always Love Their Carrots: 67
• Horse to Trot: 68
• Little Tommy Tinker: 69
• Little Betty Blue: 70
• Doctor Foster: 71
• How Doth the Little Crocodile: 72
• Londons Burning: 73
• Kookaburra: 74
• For Health and Strength: 77
• O Give Thanks: 78
• Laudate Nomen: 79
• Honor Praise and Glory: 80
• Dona Nobis Pacem: 81
• Now Well Make the Rafters Ring: 83
• Now Well Make the Rafters Ring: 85
• Pleasant Is It to Hear: 86
• Pray Dont Sing So Loud: 87
• Im Not Strong Sir: 88
• Let Us Endeavor: 89
• The Orchestra: 90
• Rain Turns to Snow: 93
• Rain Turns to Snow: 95
• Gone Is Autumns Kindly Glow: 96
• Farewell We Sing: 97
• Come Let Us Laugh: 98
• Ring Out the Old: 100
• Cathedral Bells of France: 101
• Grandfather Clock: 102
• Christmas Is Coming: 104
• All rounds can be played on alto and bass recorders F instruments reading up an octave All except those followed by an asterisk can be played on so...: 119

About the author

Margaret Read MacDonald Bio: Margaret Read MacDonald is a professional storyteller, award winning author and highly respected consultant who travels the world telling stories and conducting workshops for educators. Her most popular workshop "Playing with Stories" has been offered in over 70 countries. She has been invited to storytelling and literary festivals in Australia, Canada, China, Colombia, Cuba, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Thailand and Singapore. In addition, Dr. MacDonald teaches storytelling to classroom teachers for the Lesley University Creative Education through the Arts program. For years, she also taught storytelling as an Adjunct Professor with the University of Washington Information School. Dr. MacDonald is the author of over 60 books on folklore and storytelling topics, including many award winning folktale picture books. She has been telling stories since 1964 in her work as a children's librarian, and she holds a Ph.D. in Folklore from Indiana University along with an M.Ed.EC. (Educational Communications Masters) from the University of Hawaii and a Master's of Library Science (MLS) from the University of Washington. She is well known for her ability to create texts that delight the ear and are easy for teachers to share. Teaching with Story contains 20 of these useful stories that can be used by teachers with their students.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Round Book: Rounds Kids Love to Sing; G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series
• Author: Margaret Read MacDonald
• Editors: Margaret Read MacDonald, Winifred Jaeger
• Compiled by: Margaret Read MacDonald, Winifred Jaeger
• Illustrated by: Yvonne LeBrun Davis
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: august house, 2006
• ISBN: 0874837863, 9780874837865
• Length: 121 pages
• Subjects: Education / Teaching / Subjects / Arts & Humanities; Juvenile Fiction / Performing Arts / Music; Juvenile Fiction / Stories in Verse; Juvenile Nonfiction / Music / Songbooks; Music / Genres & Styles / Children's; Music / Printed Music / General; Music / Printed Music / Opera & Classical Scores