Don't read notes, read patterns of sound! This unique sight reading course for treble voices in elementary and early middle school does just that! PATTERNS OF SOUND uses excellent voice leading, careful sequencing and musically interesting exercises that can be combined to strengthen part singing, pitch relationships and to develop rhythmic independence. Volume 1 starts from square one, assuming no previous training, with exercises that are so carefully sequenced that the students are quickly singing four-measure phrases and eight measure songs in two parts and finding it easy! Students are introduced to notes, rests, meter, pitch and unison/2-part songs in Vol. 1, and continue in Vol. 2 with dotted rhythms & syncopation, keys & key changes and more 2-part songs. Use it every day and watch your students' confidence level grow!
Available: Teacher's Edition (Vol.1), Student Edition (Vol.1), CD (Vol.1), Teacher's Edition (Vol.2), Student Edition (Vol.2). Recommended for Grades 3-8.
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Here is a delightful collection of 50 playful songs and activities for Preschool and Early Elementary School Children as compiled by John M. Feierabend and illustrated by Gary M. Kramer. The companion CD features 90 minutes of activities including “Moving Around,” “Taking Turns,” “Leading Others,” “Moving Together,” and many more, with vocals and guitar by folksinger Luann Saunders.
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This is a compilation of teaching tips guaranteed to refresh and recharge your K-8 music program! With contributions sent in from the experts, dynamic and talented music educators from across the country, these ideas touch on all aspects of the music curriculum from classroom management and teaching basic skills to fine tuning your choir and funding your programs. The enhanced two-CD set has audio components and printable PDFs with field-tested, tried-and-true tips that are designed to grow your music program. The listening CDs make it easy to listen to these tips at home, at school, in the car, or even on your MP3 player!
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ESSENTIAL REPERTOIRE is a core library of time-tested choral works which provide a framework for teaching style and history, all through performance. The graded series includes Masterworks (Renaissance through Contemporary), Folksongs (American and Multicultural), Spirituals, A Cappella and Accompanied works. The series is available for beginning through advanced choirs, and for mixed, treble and tenor bass ensembles.
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By popular request, these songs and pieces from the 5 volume English edition (by Margaret Murray) of Carl Orff and Gunild Keetman's 'Schulwerk' are now available in CD format. Singers and speakers are from a variety of English, Welsh and German schools with professional musicians playing instruments. The Schulwerk idea is one that transplants well, founded as it is on the basic elements of language, music and dance, with which children are encouraged to play and improvise imaginatively, so that, through the use of simple forms, they will be able to make their own music. The material is not restricted to Britain, but also includes songs from Canada and the United States. The instrumental ensemble is directed by Carl Orff and Hermann Regner. All possible instrumental resources suited to this elemental style of music making have been used.
The barred percussion instruments that carry Orff's name such as glockenspiels, xylophones and metallophones, are used, as well as simple, small percussion instruments and the larger ones found in the conventional orchestra. The older forms of wind instruments are favoured, such as recorders, sorduns and crumhorns. Brass instruments such as trumpets and trombones, are also used. The guitar, cello and double bass have an important role, and, where available, the older forms of string instruments, such as the viol or viola da gamba, blend well into the ensemble.
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This book presents a selection of play songs and related activities in sensory awareness, movement and dance, voice and language, playing instruments, listening, visualizing, social forms and drama. It is written for kindergarten and elementary teachers working with children ages 4-9, for music teachers and for teachers working with groups of mixed ability. It aims to widen the repertoire of songs, topics and related activities, to enhance the experience of singing, moving and playing instruments together as well as to stimulate one's own creativity to invent new extensions. The wide range of activities for each song enables teachers to work with children of different ages and abilities ensuring that no one is over- or under-challenged and that each child can learn, play and contribute to the whole on his or her own level.
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“Essential Musicianship, Book 3,” recommended for Grades 10-12 or other advanced singers, is a sequential choral method that helps the returning high school singer develop intermediate to advanced skills. Concepts presented include major/minor scales, diatonic chords, intervals, chromaticism, categories of harmony, modes, simple, asymmetric and changing meters. The Student 10-Pak provides over a 10% savings if multiple copies are needed.
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Here is a follow-up to Audrey Snyder's popular rhythm reading method. Designed for choirs, bands, orchestras and general music classes, 'The Rhythm Reader II' promotes quick comprehension with solid rhythm reading resulting in only a few minutes of use each rehearsal. Volume II continues the sequential curriculum by offering instruction and practice in ties, dotted rhythms, cut time and other meters, sixteenth note combinations, compound meters, triplets and more. The concepts are introduced logically and sequentially throughout more than 100 exercises. Optional recorded accompaniments on the CD promote high motivation and success for all students. These recordings feature a wide variety of styles and timbres from classical to reggae, string quartet to rock, making learning to sight-read FUN!
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ESSENTIAL REPERTOIRE is a core library of time-tested choral works which provide a framework for teaching style and history, all through performance. The graded series includes Masterworks (Renaissance through Contemporary), Folksongs (American and Multicultural), Spirituals, A Cappella and Accompanied works. The series is available for beginning through advanced choirs, and for mixed, treble and tenor bass ensembles.
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Join Henry Leck and a choir made up of young male singers from the Indianapolis Children's Choir and the Indianapolis Youth Chorale. They explore the historical, physical, emotional, and individual musical perspective of the boy's changing voice as well as how the process affects the choral ensemble as a whole. This video offers choir directors, studio voice teachers and young singers the opportunity to examine the process of vocal maturation and how that process might be approached within the choral ensemble. Includes warmups and vocal exercises, ranges and guidelines for vocal classification, technical data, interviews with several young singers, and several excerpts of solo and choral repertoire in performance. Available: DVD.
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A set of activities that teaches rhythm reading skills in short, fun, easy-to-learn games. These adaptable lessons are effective with the beginning music student from kindergarten through Grade 5. Lessons vary from one to 30 minutes in length. Quick reference cards are included for all games. Multiple appendices provide a wealth of information. Grades K-5.
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World Sound Matters is an anthology of music from around the world, representing 35 different countries. A publication which should be of practical use to a wide range of musicians, from secondary school teachers to their pupils, from adults interested in knowing more about world music to music students wishing to specialize in this field, and to composers. Partial contents: Japan • Gagakucourt music • Korea • Music for Komun'go • China • Tibetan Ritual Music • Mongolia • Diphonic Singing • Vietnam • Work Song • Laos • Music for Kaen • Indonesia • Javanese Dance-Opera Philippines • Palawan Love Song • Solomon Islands • Rihe Panpipe Ensemble • Australia • Arnhem Land Aboriginal Music • India • Music for Nagasvaram • Iran • Art Music for Ensemble • Turkey • Music for Ney • Egypt • Quran Recitation • Egypt • Music for Folk Ensemble • Morocco • Nawba Music for Ensemble • Algeria • Music for Ghayta and Bendir • Mali • Griot Song • Ethiopia • Song with Masenqo • Central African Republic • Song with Sanza • Gabon • Yodelling Exercise • Burundi • Whispered Song • Mozambique • Music for Timbila • Russia • Play Song • Armenia • Music for K'amancha • Georgia • Work Song • Romania • Music for Cimpoi • Greece • Rebetiko Urban Popular Music • Spain • Cante Flamenco • Portugal • Fado Urban Song • Norway • Hardingfele • Canada • Inuit Throat-Game • US • Texas Folk Song • Trinidad • Music for Steel Band • Colombia • Dance for Chirimia Ensemble • Brazil • Ritual Dance-Song.
Also available: 2-CD set of 58 traditional music recordings, sold separately (item 49003255).
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ESSENTIAL REPERTOIRE is a core library of time-tested choral works which provide a framework for teaching style and history, all through performance. The graded series includes Masterworks (Renaissance through Contemporary), Folksongs (American and Multicultural), Spirituals, A Cappella and Accompanied works. The series is available for beginning through advanced choirs, and for mixed, treble and tenor bass ensembles.
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Carl Orff devoted much of his life to music for children. His pioneering work continues under the guidance of teachers and educators in many countries. The five basic German volumes of “Music for Children” by Carl Orff and Gunild Keetman were published between 1950 and 1954. Based on these original German volumes, here is the English adaptation with additional material by Doreen hall and Arnold Walter. VOLUME 1 Pentatonic, VOLUME 2 Major: Bordun, VOLUME 3 Major Triads, VOLUME 4 Minor: Bordun, VOLUME 5 Minor Triads.
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ESSENTIAL REPERTOIRE is a core library of time-tested choral works which provide a framework for teaching style and history, all through performance. The graded series includes Masterworks (Renaissance through Contemporary), Folksongs (American and Multicultural), Spirituals, A Cappella and Accompanied works. The series is available for beginning through advanced choirs, and for mixed, treble and tenor bass ensembles.
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Carl Orff devoted much of his life to music for children. His pioneering work continues under the guidance of teachers and educators in many countries. The five basic German volumes of “Music for Children” by Carl Orff and Gunild Keetman were published between 1950 and 1954. The considerable growth of Orff-Schulwerk in the United States led to the publication of the American Edition (1977) to satisfy the requirements of a different educational system and national heritage. Music for Children is a stimulating source of material for music teaching. Orff's fundamental educational ideas have revitalized music education from nursery schools to secondary education and in special music schools, based on the concepts that music, dance and language are interrelated and animated through rhythm. At the opening of the Orff Institute in Salzburg in 1963, Carl Orff ended his speech with a quotation from Schiller: 'I have done my part, now do yours.' That challenge has been taken up by teachers worldwide.Hall/Walter Edition, Based on Volumes 1, 2 and 4 of the original German Edition “Musik für Kinder,” English adaption with additional material by Doreen Hall and Arnold Walter. VOLUME 1 Pentatonic, VOLUME 2 Major: Bordun, VOLUME 3 Major Triads, VOLUME 4 Minor: Bordun, VOLUME 5 Minor Triads.
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Essential Repertoire is a core library of time-tested choral works which provide a framework for teaching style and history, all through performance. The graded series includes Masterworks (Renaissance through Contemporary), Folksongs (American and Multicultural), Spirituals, A Cappella and Accompanied works. The series is available for beginning through advanced choirs, and for mixed, treble and tenor bass ensembles.
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Includes performance and accompaniment of all titles in Essential Repertoire for the Young Choir (Treble Level 1) Assists teacher in previewing and selecting music 2) allows students to hear a good performance model 3) Allows the teacher to move away from the piano and work more directly with students 4) Accompaniments include internal track numbers for quick and accurate cueing.
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Sing on Sight is a comprehensive sight-singing method by Audrey Snyder. Volume Two builds on the skills established in Volume One and moves step by step to full, choral sight-singing. The recorded accompaniments include a wide variety of styles, from classical to contemporary, and folk music to pop and jazz. Exercises are written so that two or more lines may be sung simultaneously, so students gain sight-singing independence and develop their part-singing skills. With just a few minutes a day Sing on Sight can help your choirs learn to read music and have fun in the process! Student and Teacher Editions available separately: both Unison/2-Part Treble and 2-Part/3-Part Mixed. Accompaniment CD (coincides with both voicings) also available. Classroom Kits include 25 Student Books, 1 Teacher Edition and 1 Accompaniment CD.
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Games of Music was developed by Ralph Burton to provide an effective sight-reading and rhythm counting supplement to be used with any band or orchestra method.
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ESSENTIAL REPERTOIRE is a core library of time-tested choral works which provide a framework for teaching style and history, all through performance. The graded series includes Masterworks (Renaissance through Contemporary), Folksongs (American and Multicultural), Spirituals, A Cappella and Accompanied works. The series is available for beginning through advanced choirs, and for mixed, treble and tenor bass ensembles.
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ESSENTIAL REPERTOIRE is a core library of time-tested choral works which provide a framework for teaching style and history, all through performance. The graded series includes Masterworks (Renaissance through Contemporary), Folksongs (American and Multicultural), Spirituals, A Cappella and Accompanied works. The series is available for beginning through advanced choirs, and for mixed, treble and tenor bass ensembles.
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Carl Orff devoted much of his life to music for children. His pioneering work continues under the guidance of teachers and educators in many countries. The five basic German volumes of “Music for Children” by Carl Orff and Gunild Keetman were published between 1950 and 1954. Based on these original German volumes, here is the English adaptation with additional material by Doreen hall and Arnold Walter. VOLUME 1 Pentatonic, VOLUME 2 Major: Bordun, VOLUME 3 Major Triads, VOLUME 4 Minor: Bordun, VOLUME 5 Minor Triads.
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ESSENTIAL REPERTOIRE is a core library of time-tested choral works which provide a framework for teaching style and history, all through performance. The graded series includes Masterworks (Renaissance through Contemporary), Folksongs (American and Multicultural), Spirituals, A Cappella and Accompanied works. The series is available for beginning through advanced choirs, and for mixed, treble and tenor bass ensembles.
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Sing on Sight is a comprehensive sight-singing method by Audrey Snyder. Volume Two builds on the skills established in Volume One and moves step by step to full, choral sight-singing. The recorded accompaniments include a wide variety of styles, from classical to contemporary, and folk music to pop and jazz. Exercises are written so that two or more lines may be sung simultaneously, so students gain sight-singing independence and develop their part-singing skills. With just a few minutes a day Sing on Sight can help your choirs learn to read music and have fun in the process! Student and Teacher Editions available separately: both Unison/2-Part Treble and 2-Part/3-Part Mixed. Accompaniment CD (coincides with both voicings) also available. Classroom Kits include 25 Student Books, 1 Teacher Edition and 1 Accompaniment CD.
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For Pre K-2, traditional songs, rhymes and activities to build essential developmental skills, teach concepts, enhance vocabulary and encourage social skills and creative responses.
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