Purposeful Pathways, by Roger Sams and BethAnn Hepburn, edited by Jill Trinka, is an extensive collection of curricular materials for learning music through active music making. Based on the philosophies of Orff, Kodaly, and Dalcroze, this collection of developmentally sequenced learning activities offers elementary music educators diverse choices for how to present folk song and original material, including lessons in singing, literacy, movement, improvisation, composition and instrumental ensemble. Rhythmic concepts covered in Book 3 include quarter note, quarter rest, two eighth notes, half note, half rest, dotted half note, whole note, whole rest, sixteenth notes dotted quarter eighth rhythm and variations, eighth rest, and anacrusis. Pitch inventory covered in Book 3 is extended do hexatonic and la hexatonic.