The Richards Institute of Education and Research publishes and uses the following materials. For more information or to order a publication please contact us.

New 2003

Let's Do it Again! The Songs of Education Through Music
compiled by Mary Helen Richards, newly revised 2003 (Paperback, 194 pages). It features over 100 song-experience game sequences, described, illustrated and diagrammed in consistent and simple form; rounds illustrated and diagrammed and songs that "go together"; story-songs and ballads, folk dances and form books. All the songs are from English and American folk literature, approved by music and classroom teachers from many different teaching situations in Canada and the United States, pre-school through 8th grade. ISBN -1-878942-00-X $65.00 plus GST

 
New 2003

Many Voices, One Song - The Songs of Education Through Music
A three CD set which includes all the songs from Let's Do It Again. Each song from the Education Through Music repertoire is sung in its pure form. As well you can listen to beautiful choral arrangements of many songs involving canon singing, ostinati, rhythmic syllables and solfege singing.

Other Materials:

Aesthetic Foundations For Thinking - Rethought: Part 1, Experience
by Mary Helen Richards, 1984 (Paperback, 120 pages) ISBN 1-878942-02-6 $35.00

A reasoned explanation for the use of song-experience games and other music study activities for the development of music skills and musicality. There is a strong emphasis on the power of song and on everyone's right to sing, and on the comfort level of each participant being of first importance in all the activities of this "opera-like" basic study to develop a musically knowledgeable and musically literate society.

Aesthetic Foundation For Thinking: Part 2, Reflection
by Mary Helen Richards, 1978 (Paperback, 62 pages) ISBN 1-878942-03-4 $28.00

The song-experience game, an art form at the child's level of development, and the child's use of symbol and sign are discussed in a narration of the history of the development of Education Through Music.

Aesthetic Foundations For Thinking: Part 3, The ETM Process
by Mary Helen Richards, 1979 (Paperback, 192 pages) ISBN 1-878942-04-2 $35.00

Help in understanding how to follow the experience of game playing with a study of the music in 58 songs and experience games, and maps of masterworks from Bach, Beethoven and Mozart! Use questioning techniques, and ear training procedures to lead your children towards reading music notation and knowing music.

Bibliography
We regularly draw upon the experiences and insights of others. Feel free to explore this list of intriguing references.

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Elkind, D. The Hurried Child. Mass: Addison-Wesley, 1988.

Elkind, D. The Ties that Stress: The New Family Imbalance. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.

Gardner, H. Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. New York: Basic Books, 1983.

Gazzaniga, M. The Social Brain: Discovering Networks of the Mind. New York: Basic Books, 1984.

Hart, L. Human Brain and Human Learning. Kent, Washington: Books for Educators (17051 S.E. 272 St., Ste. 18, Seattle, WA 98042), 1984.

Healy, J.M. Endangered Minds: Why Children Don't Think and What We Can Do About It. New York: Touchstone. 1980.

Healy, J.M. Your Child's Growing Mind: A Practical guide to brain development and learning from birth to adolescence. Doubleday 1994.

Healy, J.M. Failure to Connect - How Computers Affect Our Children's Minds - for Better and Worse. Simon & Schuster, 1998

Newsweek - Special Edition: Your Child. Spring/Summer 1997. Edition sponsored by Johnson & Johnson

Pearce, J.C.  The Magical Child Matures. New York: Bantam Books, 1983.

Pearce, J.C. Evolution's End: Claiming the Potential of Our Intelligence. New York: Harper Collins, 1992.