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Introduction

Collecting Folk Songs

  • Wimoweh
  • Estrella é Lua Nova
  • She’ll Be Coming ‘Round The Mountain
  • Rumanian Folk Dance No. 1

Setting A Folk Song

  • Black Is The Color
  • Clair De Lune

Inventing A Folk Song

  • Swing High, Swing Low
  • Ballo

Composing With A Folk Song

  • He Is There!
  • Down By The Riverside
  • Red Pajamas

Finale

Music Terminology

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Music In The Classroom

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Musiqa is funded in part by the City of Houston though Houston Arts Alliance. Musiqa is also generously funded by the Houston Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs and Mid-America Arts Alliance, New Music USA’s Organization Fund in 2023-24, Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, Amphion Foundation, The Brown Foundation, Inc., The Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, and Musiqa Composer Circle Members. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov.  © MUSIQA, Inc. All rights reserved.

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