Professional music organizations around the world strongly advocate the inclusion of world musics at all levels of instruction. Scholars and practitioners in the field recognize the profound benefits of a multicultural music education, and policies and practices on behalf of such education have been adopted in numerous countries. One of the greatest challenges teachers face in implementing a multicultural curriculum is finding good quality materials.

To evaluate the quantity and quality of the material from the Argentine musical culture available to music educators, the author elected to investigate a range of resources published by the International Society for Music Education, the American National Association for Music Education, and four popular American elementary music series textbooks ( Share the Music, 1995, 2000; The Music Connection, 1995; Making Music, 2008). The results of this preliminary survey indicated very few examples of Argentine music in these publications, many of which were marred by flaws.

Taking into consideration the need for quality resources that would make it possible for teachers to include Argentine music in their children's choral programs, the purpose of this study was to provide arrangements of nine songs representative of the Argentine musical culture for the children's choir. In preparation towards achieving that goal, the following research areas were investigated: (1) Characteristics of the children's choir sound; (2) Potential and limitations of the child voice; (3) Suitability for performance by the children's choir; (4) Criteria for the selection of choral compositions for the children's choir; (5) Recommendations by experts for arranging music for the children's choir; (6) Contemporary educational expectations and considerations for presenting and teaching world musics.

A review of the literature relevant to these questions was conducted, as well as an analysis of repertoire recommended by a number of experts in the field, for the beginning, intermediate, and advanced children's choirs. The results of the analysis and the recommendations from the reviewed literature guided the author in the arrangement of the songs, the preparation of accompanying cultural and musical information, and the production of an audio recording of the spoken pronunciation followed by a vocal demonstration of the songs.