First Steps in Music for Preschool and Beyond
Product identity
- Publisher
- GIA Publications
- Program family
- First Steps in Music
- Edition
- Revised Edition
Instructional fit
Materials and delivery
- Format description
- Spiral-bound print curriculum book with separately available print collections, recordings, packages, downloads, and professional-learning media.
- Included components
- Curriculum book; sequential singing and movement activities; pitch exploration; echo songs; call-and-response; songtales; fingerplays; circle games; beat-motion resources; optional recordings and resource packages.
- Languages and support
- English with illustrated activity guidance, modeled repertoire, movement sequences, recorded examples, and professional-learning resources.
- Format components
Links and notes
- Vendor product URL
- Visit publisher product page
- Curriculum notes
- The source inventory shortened the title to First Steps in Music. This record uses the current product title. The Revised Edition curriculum book is item G-5880, copyright 2006; GIA documents a 2020 repertoire supplement and separately sold resource packages and recordings.
Availability
- Product availability
- Available
- Last checked
- September 29, 2026
An early-childhood and early-elementary music curriculum that develops tuneful singing, beat competence, expressive movement, listening, and musical responsiveness through sequenced activities.
First Steps in Music for Preschool and Beyond is John M. Feierabend's general-music curriculum for preschool and early-elementary learners. Sequenced singing, movement, beat-keeping, echo songs, songtales, circle games, fingerplays, pitch exploration, and listening activities help children become tuneful, beatful, and artful before formal music literacy instruction.