Item #1538 [SOVIET PRESCHOOLERS] 50 igr s peniem dlia detei ot 3–8 let (s metodicheskimi ukazaniiami) [i.e. 50 Games with Songs for Children of 3–8 Years Old (with Instructions)]. M. Rumer, N., Metlov.
[SOVIET PRESCHOOLERS] 50 igr s peniem dlia detei ot 3–8 let (s metodicheskimi ukazaniiami) [i.e. 50 Games with Songs for Children of 3–8 Years Old (with Instructions)]

[SOVIET PRESCHOOLERS] 50 igr s peniem dlia detei ot 3–8 let (s metodicheskimi ukazaniiami) [i.e. 50 Games with Songs for Children of 3–8 Years Old (with Instructions)]

Moscow: Rabotnik prosveshcheniia, 1930. Item #1538

64, [3] pp.: sheet music. 21,5x14,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Fragments of the spine lost, with some pieces of covers paper along the spine, foxing on covers, pale stamps and numbers of a Soviet institution on p. 3,17 and last one (blank). Otherwise very good and clean.

First and only edition. One of 10 000 copies produced. Very rare.
It is a guide to rhythmic games regarded as a component of education of young children. It was written by organizers of mass music preschool education, Soviet pedagogs Maria Rumer (1888-1981) and Nikolai Metlov (1885-1971). Soon after the Revolution, Rumer headed the out-of-school education section of the People’s Commissariat for Education and simultaneously worked at the Institute of Rhythmic Education in Moscow. Later she taught rhythmics at the Moscow State Conservatory. The “Rumer’s system of rhythmic education” included a wide range of techniques for revealing creative potential of students and educating them as imaginative, curious and open-minded. Her collaborator, pedagog Metlov sought to create the system of music education in the USSR and emphasized the importance of celebrations held in nurseries and kindergartens. Metlov was the first author of programs for musical disciplines which were studied at different levels of training of music teachers and kindergarten pedagogs: from shortterm courses to higher educational institutions.

The guide contains 50 simple songs that young children performed without accompaniment of piano, but with addition of march, elementary and more complex educational games. Sheet music fragments are given with lyrics and instructions.

The authors compiled them into sections: “organization”, “labor”, “everyday life”, “The Red Army”, “game”, “fauna”, “winter” and others. For instance, a game song “Keep Your Ears Open for Song” gathers 5-6-year children in a circle and they start to sing or hum. In advance they choose one child in a circle. A host enters that room and starts to go behind
children listening to how they are singing. Children begin to sing louder as soon as the host comes closer to the chosen one. Children of 6-8 years old might be organized for a performance “Individual Peasants and Collective Farmers” in which “kolkhoz farmers” united in groups of three to perform agricultural machinery. In a game “Factory” they performed plant machines and their occasional failures.

Not in the Worldcat.

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