Music Talks With Children: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Music Talks With Children, credited to Thomas Tapper, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Music Talks With Children by Thomas Tapper. Read in English by Patrick Wells; Kara Shallenberg; Nathan Heck; Maggie Travers "A book of this kind, though addressed to children, must necessarily reach them through an older person. The purpose is to suggest a few of the many aspects which music may have even to the mind of a child. If these chapters, or whatever may be logically suggested by them, be actually used as the basis of simple Talks with children, music may become to them more than drill and study. They should know it as an art, full of beauty and of dignity; full of pure thought and abounding in joy. Music with these characteristics is the true music of the heart. Unless music gives true pleasure to the young it may be doubted if it is wisely studied. Our failure to present music to the young in a manner that interests and holds them is due not so much to the fact that music is too difficult for children, but because the children themselves are too difficult for us. In our ignorance we often withhold the rightful inheritance. We must not forget that the slower adult mind often meets a class of difficulties which are not recognized by the unprejudiced child. It is not infrequent that with the old fears in us we persist in recreating difficulties." (From the Preface)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Music Talks With Children
• Author credits: Thomas Tapper
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 26
• Listed recording duration: 3:02:24

Catalogue topics

• music
• learning about music

Opening tracks: first 24 of 26

1. 00 - Preface — 2:12
2. 01 - What The Face Tells — 3:04
3. 02 - Why We Should Study Music — 7:50
4. 03 - Music in the Heart — 7:47
5. 04 - The Tones About Us — 8:11
6. 05 - Listening — 8:16
7. 06 - Thinking in Tone — 8:44
8. 07 - What We See and Hear — 7:07
9. 08 - The Classics — 7:05
10. 09 - What We Should Play — 6:36
11. 10 - The Lesson — 7:49
12. 11 - The Light on the Path — 2:52
13. 12 - The Greater Masters — 8:25
14. 13 - The Lesser Masters — 6:46
15. 14 - Harmony and Counterpoint — 10:00
16. 15 - Music and Reading — 6:06
17. 16 - The Hands — 9:35
18. 17 - What the Roman Lady Said — 8:02
19. 18 - The Glory of the Day — 8:40
20. 19 - The Ideal — 8:32
21. 20 - The One Talent — 8:36
22. 21 - Love For the Beautiful — 6:57
23. 22 - In School — 7:08
24. 23 - Music in School — 6:52

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