Tune Your Brain: Using Music to Manage Your Mind, Body, and Mood  by Elizabeth Miles

In this book, Elizabeth Miles explores the power of music in relation to motivation, mood, and behaviour, while explaining how different types of music create varying levels of power in the mind and body.

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The Mozart Effect - Tapping the Power of Music to Heal the Body, Strengthen the Mind, and Unlock the Creative Spirit  by Don Campbell

One of the leading experts on sound and healing, Don Campbell shows how healthcare professionals use music to deal with everything from anxiety to cancer, even mental illness. He also illustrates how the Mozart Effect can improve memory, strengthen listening abilities, and raise IQ.

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The Mozart Effect for Children – Awakening Your Child’s Mind, Health and Creativity with Music  by Don Campbell

This text shows how children can benefit from music's ability to heal, strengthen and aid learning. Each chapter is devoted to a particular age, and parents and teachers can access musical guides, practical suggestions and games to play to stimulate children.

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Music in the Early Years  by Susan Young and Joanne Glover

This text is focused on the very specific needs and approaches appropriate for teachers working across the three to six age phase who want to make music integral to the life of the  classroom. It is the first in a pair of books that aim to move forward the teaching of music with a "best practice in music" philosophy. While it builds on the early stages of the National Curriculum, this book offers more challenge and depth through practical ideas by encouraging teachers to think about key issues.

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Primary Music - Later Years  by Susan Young and Joanne Glover

This work is intended for teachers working across the 7-11 age group who want to make music integral to the life of the classroom. It is the companion volume to 'Music in the Early Years'. While building on the National Curriculum, this book offers more challenge and depth on the subject both through practical ideas and by encouraging teachers to examine key issues. The two books acknowledge the very different developmental needs of children in the two age ranges and the different environments in which they are taught.

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Three Tapping Teddies  by Kay Umansky

This book aims to encourage young children to tap along with the three tapping teddies, sing along with Cinderella and to croak a chorus with the frog prince. There are also suggestions for musical games, acting out songs, sounds effects and percussion playing. The book is intended for everyone working towards the objectives outlined in the QCA Nursery Education Desirable Outcomes for Children's Learning document, particularly in the areas of creative development, language and literacy and personal and social development. No music-reading is required as the songs consist of new words written to well-known tunes. This title is the prequel to "Three Singing Pigs" and "Three Rapping Rats" and includes songs, raps, rhymes and chants.

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Three Singing Pigs: Making Music with Traditional Stories  by Kay Umansky

This is a collection of popular children's stories with ideas for making music in the classroom. Musical concepts are inherent in many traditional stories. Sounds slide up and down as Jack climbs his beanstalk, for example. The author has intertwined familiar storylines with parts for percussion, actions, well-known melodies and ideas for composition which develop the implied musical concepts. Non-specialists who are not confident in handling musical ideas should find this a simple and quick way into the music curriculum.

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Three Rapping Rats  by Kay Umansky

A follow-up to "Three Singing Pigs", this classroom music book includes the "Pied Piper" and "Sleeping Beauty", an adventure with Anansi, and stories from Greek, Viking and Tudor times. It provides songs and raps and plenty of opportunities for exploring sounds and composing music in the classroom to create atmosphere and dramatic effect. No music-reading is required with this book. It covers the performance and composing areas of KS 2 Music Curriculum with 7-9 year olds and contains some stories relating to the history curriculum.

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