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Emmanuel Ghent : Songs For Children (and All Their Friends)
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These 23 captivating songs for children are both fun and educational, written for children of all ages. As well as being enjoyable, sing along music, the songs have an added value: contained within each piece are subtle hints about melody, harmony & meter
Genre: Kids/Family: General Children's Music
Release Date: 1999
Songs For Children (and All Their Friends) © Copyright-Emmanuel Ghent
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Now Is The Time 0:55 Not Available
Spain 0:37 Not Available
One, Two, Three, Four, Five 1:42 Not Available
I'm Sorry 0:32 Not Available
What's All That Noise? 0:51 Not Available
Our Dog Was Barking All Night 1:34 Not Available
I'm Sleepy 2:01 Not Available
Every Week Has Seven Days 1:01 Not Available
January, February 1:02 Not Available
Just Five Minutes More 1:56 Not Available
My Mother and Father 0:44 Not Available
Let's Hope There Ain't A Ghost Behind Us 0:24 Not Available
Abigail 0:36 Not Available
Here Comes The Monster 0:52 Not Available
The Moon Was Green With Envy 1:06 Not Available
Mischief! 0:27 Not Available
All You Need Is An Extra Head 1:12 Not Available
Soon We Will Learn To Count 0:22 Not Available
Better get Your Ticket Right Away 0:59 Not Available
The Circumdiddle 1:47 Not Available
I So Wish You'd Come Over Here 0:31 Not Available
If You Knew How Hard I Tried 1:21 Not Available
I'm Calling 0:44 Not Available
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Album Notes

It is with great sorrow that we acknowledge the passing of Emmanuel Ghent at age 77 on March 30, 2003. "Emmanuel Ghent was an extraordinary and wonderful person, a warmly human pursuer of both science and art, as a psychiatrist, teacher, composer, and technological innovator for the arts. He was also one of the most lovable and also wisest people I've ever met and I'm sure he will be deeply missed by many." - Laurie Spiegel, friend and colleague About the Artist: Emmanuel Ghent wrote "Songs For Children and all their friends" shortly after his youngest daughter was born in 1967. Recorded 32 years later, this is his first children's album, and his last recorded work. Ghent was the recipient of many awards for music composition, including a Guggenheim Fellowship. His instrumental and computer generated music, as well as music for dance, has been widely performed. One of his most well known pieces, Phosphones, is available on a Wergo recording: WER 2022-50. Also available i

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Skillfully arranged and produced...art songs for children that are fun and educa
author: Brian Muni/American Songwriter Magazine
"Songs For Children" is a collection of 23 songs written for children by composer Emmanuel Ghent, recently released on West Street Records. Unlike the Raffi-style music most kids hear, these songs are art songs for children that are not only fun to sing but also contain subtle hints about melody, harmony and meter. As children sing along, they are learning about music. Ghent, the recipient of many awards for music composition, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, composed this collection of songs shortly after his youngest of three daughters was born in 1967. "It seemed like an exciting idea to compose songs that not only were tuneful and expressive but that also taught the children something about music without, of course, drawing attention away from the pleasure of the music itself," he writes in the CD1s 20-page booklet. "And if, on top of all this, the kids learned to count to one hundred, or caught on to the days of the wee
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