All of the musical examples in Sound Thinking are drawn from folk songs and art music encompassing a wide range of historical eras. The examples can be used for developing a variety of skills including sight-reading, dictation, musical memory, rhythmic reading, formal analysis, part singing, and improvisation.
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Introduce students to jazz through great literature combined with learning by doing! The first of ten volumes, Jazz for Young People features early jazz in New Orleans and major artists including Buddy Bolden, Jelly Roll Morton and others. Step-by-step lessons combine content and audio/video recordings of Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center artists with interactive student learning, including classroom instruments that every music teacher already owns or can easily afford. This easy-to-present resource is designed for a teacher who may or may not be trained in America's art form - bringing jazz to the next generation. DIGITAL DOWNLOADS include: Step-by-step lesson slides to project, audio recordings of each song and Wynton Marsalis sharing background information, as well as reproducible activity/assessment worksheets. Plus! You will have FREE ACCESS to corresponding video clips for each lesson. Perfect for the general music classroom (grades 2 and up), beginning jazz ensembles and community jazz education courses.
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The Scat Singing for Kids teacher's guide contains a detailed step-by-step process that creates a 'safe zone' and leads the most insecure student to uninhibited scattin' fun! Scat singing is the easiest way for kids to begin developing their jazz chops, but singing nonsense syllables as a soloist can be unnerving. Freddie the Frog® and the Flying Jazz Kitten storybook introduces kids to scat singing. The teacher's guide extends the learning with group scatting, flashcard instruction, scatting partners and classroom rhythm instruments.
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This exciting resource by Sharon Burch, creator of Freddie the Frog, is a step-by-step guide to read, analyze, compose, write and assess with craft sticks all while incorporating the National Common CORE Mathematics Standards in the process! Includes online access to sixteen singing games, craft stick lessons, and “solve the mystery” interactive charts that make teaching music and math easy and fun. Each step leads to something fun for the kids to sing, write, or play, all keeping the students engaged to the last second of class.
Who knew there was so much fun AFTER dessert? Grades K-2. Songs include: Apple Tree; Bell Horses; Hill, Hill; Lemonade; No Robbers Out Today; Pumpkin Fat; The Mill; We Are Playing in the Forest; Engine, Engine; Hot Cross Buns; Lucy Locket; Pease Porridge Hot; Snail, Snail; Choo Choo Train.
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Contents: O Music, Sweet Music (Mason) • Exercising Your Voice • Tone Production Exercises • Vocalizations • Jubilate Deo (Praetorius) • The Salley Gardens (Britten) • Simple Gifts (arr. Copland) • She's Like the Swallow • A Spring Morning • Good Night (Kabalevsky)
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Translated by Margaret Murray.
In 1924 Dorothee Günther and Carl Orff founded a School for Gymnastics and Dance whose influence unfolded between the Weimar Republic and the end of the Second World War. In this book seven authors present the entire dance, musical, pedagogical and historical aspects of this school in which Carl Orff's idea of Elementary Music took shape. A comprehensive documentation section comprises articles by Günther and Orff from the 1920s and 30s, reviews of artistic and educational work as well as largely unpublished photographs. Out of this there emerges a multifaceted and lively picture of a great approach to the art of dancing and an improvisatory music practice, arising out of the kindred collaboration between the dancer Maja Lex and the musician Gunild Keetman. Michael Kugler, born 1942 in Munich, studied Musicology and School Music. After five years teaching in a high school he moved in 1973 to a lectureship at Munich University and since 1994 has taught Music Pedagogy privately. He has published articles on Afro-American music, rhythmics, Orff-Schulwerk, and elemental music and movement education.
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Imagine - learning to sight read while having fun! Singers will grasp concepts quickly while singing “real music” from day one. This step-by-step method includes fun songs with lyrics, dynamics, and accompaniment, along with prepatory exercises that are interesting, authentic, and flexible. This resource may be used with beginners of any age. The sequential approach focuses on the keys of C, F, and G major, basic rhythms, and simple intervals in the tonic, dominant, and subdominant chords. Teacher Edition comes complete with teaching suggestions and online digital access to student notation and audio files.
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Part of the Kodaly Choral Method, this collection of 55 nursery songs is not meant to be sight-singing material. These songs are composed to provide very simple note and rhythm patterns for the very young singers. The five-note (pentatonic scale) is employed so as to avoid the use of semi-tones (half steps) at an age when certainty of intonation is only just developing. The first songs are in fact written on two notes (tones) only, later progressing to three, four and five.
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Composer/Lyricist: John Henry Kreitler & Patsy Meyer
The K-Street Kids turn a boring day into an exploring day filled with pirates, treasures, and more. This K-3 musical play entertains while teaching students maps, geography, sea life, Irish jigs, accelerando, and the real treasure of friendship. The teacher's book features reproducible music and lyrics, easy dialogue for a flexible number of students, and simple staging and costume suggestions. Songs include: It's a Boring Day • Usin' My Noggin' • The Map Rap • What You See in the Sea • I, I, Irish Ike • I'm Your Friend • It's an Exploring Day. Includes a performance and accompaniment CD with kids' voices.
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Sequenced, early childhood, music-lesson plans based on the Orff-Schulwerk approach. Each lesson plan is described in a step-by-step format and offers verba communication • what the teachers may say • to present the material and to faciliate the activity. Introduction • Stretching, Contracting – A Warm-Up • Yoo Hoo • Charley Over the Water • See How the Sky – An Introduction • Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star • Starlight, Star Bright • Sally Go 'Round the Stars • The Falling Star • Great Big Stars • A Story of the Seasons • Riding • Scarf Games • Tall Shop • The Beehive • Circles • Circles and Other Shapes • See the Train • Valentine, Valentine • Here Is Peter Rabbit • Spooks and Spirits • Apples, Apples • Fire Stations • Jelly on a Plate • Barber, Barber, Shave a Pig • The Magic Forest • To Market, to Market • Saint Francis • Look Look • Pizza, Pizza, Mighty Moe • Yangtze Boatmen's Chantey • Rain Story • Age Category Index.
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The author of bestselling Icebreakers and Icebreakers 2, Valerie Lippoldt Mack reflects on her career as a music educator, dancer, and musician and shares valuable knowledge and experience with you in Putting the SHOW in CHOIR. Full of tips and suggestions for successful auditions, choreography, staging, lights, costumes, programming, rehearsal suggestions, budgeting, public relations and more, this resource is a must for every concert, jazz, or show choir director!
There is a wealth of information in this easy and fun-to-read book with humorous stories sprinkled throughout that could only happen to Valerie!
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The Kodaly Choral Method is a comprehensive series of progressive songs and sigh-singing exercises designed to promote a thorough understanding of interval and tonality. By incorporative a wide range of Hungarian folk music and poetry, Kodaly has produced a stimulating addition to the repertoire of school and amateur choirs. This collection presents 22 traditional American two-part children's songs, as edited by Erzsébet Szönyi.
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Who knew that when you set out to be a choral conductor that your life would be completely filled with so many other activities and a plethora of roles other than just conductor? One of the main jobs of a choral director is that of a juggler, or a multitasker in the contemporary vernacular! The only way to survive and thrive in this world of music is to keep yourself organized. In The Perfect Choral Workbook, you will find the tools to organize your choral program and your career. There are over 50 forms and lists on the CD-ROM with printable files that will assist you with a range of tasks from making sure you are in the right place to possessing the necessary tools to cultivate magic in your music program. This workbook also allows you to tailor the forms to your specific program needs. A useful and informative guide to successfully juggling all your roles and tasks as a choral conductor!
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This collection of 100 Hungarian folksongs was incorporated into the late Kodály's Choral Method to perform a number of educationally useful and yet separate functions. They are, however, performance pieces, albeit for classroom use, and should be learned in conjunction with sight-reading training using 333 Elementary Exercises.
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Freddie the Frog, Eli the Elephant, Babs Baboon and Micki Macaw join trumpet-playing elephants, trombone-sliding tigers, clarinet-playing monkeys and a flock of seagulls as they scat sing, swing and perform collective improvisation in this swingin' introduction to jazz. The musical includes five original songs and dialog with 26 speaking parts, along with unique “beginner band student” adaptations. The characters soon discover how embracing their differences creates the ultimate jungle jam! The enhanced Teacher Book/Singer CD-ROM includes piano accompaniments, dialog, detailed production guide, singer parts, and jazz combo charts. The Performance/Accompaniment jazz tracks feature The N'Awlins Gumbo Kings. In addition, there are recorded instrumental solos to scat sing along with, and tracks without recorded solos for scatting student-created phrases! Songs include: Jungle Jazz, We're the Best, Jungle Jam, I'm So Sorry My Friend, Let's Celebrate. 25 minutes. Suggested for Grades 2-5.
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Music is the universal language. This we know is true. For us as choral musicians, however, there is an added layer of challenge and opportunity: WORDS! How many times have you heard a chorus sing and thought, “That was beautiful, but I have NO clue what they were singing about!” The Language of Music will take you from the most basic tools of delivering text to the overarching and magical communication that exists in choral singing. The book includes accompanying video clips that will guide you to a connection with your audience through your music that will touch everyone: singers and audiences alike!
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The Kodaly Choral Method is a comprehensive series of progressive songs and sight-singing exercises designed to promote a thorough understanding of interval and tonality. By incorporative a wide range of Hungarian folk music and poetry, Kodaly has produced a stimulating addition to the repertoire of school and amateur choirs. This Revised English Edition by Geoffry Russell-Smith presents 55 two-part exercises.
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This classroom bundle contains 30 Student Editions and 1 Teacher Edition. Imagine - learning to sight read while having fun! Singers will grasp concepts quickly while singing “real music” from day one. This step-by-step method includes fun songs with lyrics, dynamics, and accompaniment, along with prepatory exercises that are interesting, authentic, and flexible. This resource may be used with beginners of any age. The sequential approach focuses on the keys of C, F, and G major, basic rhythms, and simple intervals in the tonic, dominant, and subdominant chords. Teacher Edition comes complete with teaching suggestions and online digital access to student notation and audio files.
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The Kodaly Choral Method is a comprehensive series of progressive songs and sigh-singing exercises designed to promote a thorough understanding of interval and tonality. By incorporative a wide range of Hungarian folk music and poetry, Kodaly has produced a stimulating addition to the repertoire of school and amateur choirs. This collection presents 22 two-part exercises.
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Bicinia Hungarica provides a welcome introduction to elementary two-part singing. These works are not merely exercises, but miniatures of a great composer, which may serve as an introduction to his larger works, and to many aspects of 20th century music.
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Of the various volumes of pieces from The Kodaly Choral Method, this book instroduces a wider freedom of key through comparatively frequent modulation, and at the same time explores polyphonic devices and styles. The standard of difficulty places it after “15 Two-Part Exercises” (48009968).
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What is a Grapevine? How do you perform the California Raisins? Or the Cabbage Patch? These questions and more will all be answered in Kids Gotta Move! This handy book/DVD pack features over 100 choreography terms, defined and demonstrated with the young performer in mind. The movements are alphabetized for ease of use, with easy-to-follow definitions, diagrams and dozens of demonstration photos for further visual reference. The DVD features John Jacobson and two student dancers demonstrating each move, and the submenus on the DVD will allow you to go directly to the move you desire without fast-forwarding through an entire videotape! You'll never have to wonder what the Crocodile Smile looks like again. With Kids Gotta Move!, all the moves you'll ever need are right here for you. So get moving with Kids Gotta Move!
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Extend the Kazoo-Boo classroom magic with ten songs that will have your kids singing, clapping, stomping, crashing and woofing! The collection offers full piano accompaniment and reproducible songsheets, as well as activities to reinforce the concepts and skills in each song. Sold separately is a Performance/Accompaniment CD for enhancing classroom activities and/or school performances. Songs include: Bangin' on My Bongos, Tang Tang, Follow Freckles, Let's Make Music, Wake Up and Play!, We Are Marching, It's a Mystery, Crash! Boom! Bang!, I'm Your Friend, Boo's Beats.
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Original songs, poetry and stories with Orff instruments for children. bound by a theme of seasonal changes and intended for classroom and music teachers. Coffey, Gagne: Breezes Are Gentrly Blowing • Koulish: Trees in the Forest • Gagne: Crispy Leaves • Coffey: The Colors of Autumn • Coffey, Koulish: Snith a Pumpkin and The Long, Creaky, Winding Stair • Coffey, Gagne, Koulish: Onion Skin • Colley: Wintery, Wintery Day • Coffey: Dancing Snowflakes • Koulish: The Breath of Winter • Koulish: Wake Up, It's Spring! • Gagne: Breezes Are Gently Blowing • Koulish: The Breath of Spring • Gagne: Dreams, Dreams • Gagne: Pirpiritsa • Koulish: Winter Spring Summer Fall • Coffey, Gagne, Koulish: Summer Dawn • Coffey, Gagne, Koulish: Beach Rap • Coffey, Gagne, Koulish: Summer Sunset • Koulish: Echoes of Time • Fall Poems • Winter Poems • Spring Poems • Summer Poems • Closure
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Extend the Kazoo-Boo classroom magic with ten songs that will have your kids singing, clapping, stomping, crashing and woofing! The collection offers full piano accompaniment and reproducible songsheets, as well as activities to reinforce the concepts and skills in each song. Sold separately is a Songs 1 Songbook with piano/vocal arrangements for enhancing classroom activities and/or school performances. Songs include: Bangin' on My Bongos, Tang Tang, Follow Freckles, Let's Make Music, Wake Up and Play!, We Are Marching, It's a Mystery, Crash! Boom! Bang!, I'm Your Friend, Boo's Beats.
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Freddie the Frog, Eli the Elephant, Babs Baboon and Micki Macaw join trumpet-playing elephants, trombone-sliding tigers, clarinet-playing monkeys and a flock of seagulls as they scat sing, swing and perform collective improvisation in this swingin' introduction to jazz. The musical includes five original songs and dialog with 26 speaking parts, along with unique “beginner band student” adaptations. The characters soon discover how embracing their differences creates the ultimate jungle jam! The enhanced Teacher Book/Singer CD-ROM includes piano accompaniments, dialog, detailed production guide, singer parts, and jazz combo charts. The Performance/Accompaniment jazz tracks feature The N'Awlins Gumbo Kings. In addition, there are recorded instrumental solos to scat sing along with, and tracks without recorded solos for scatting student-created phrases! Songs include: Jungle Jazz, We're the Best, Jungle Jam, I'm So Sorry My Friend, Let's Celebrate. 25 minutes. Suggested for Grades 2-5.
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This collection of 100 Little Marches was incorporated into the late Kodály's Choral Method to perform a number of educationally useful and yet separate functions. They are, however, performance pieces, albeit for classroom use, and should be learned in conjunction with sight-reading training using 333 Elementary Exercises.
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The Folk song arrangements in this book are meant to provide the very first experiences that young children have with Orff instruments. the arrangements are organised progressively, each new note being introduced separately.
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Part of The Kodaly Choral Method, these beautiful compositions present further fascinating problems in intonation and the understanding of remote modulation which characterize this stage of the Kodály Method.
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